Pansies are supposed to like it cool, but those great velvety flowers were healthy and perky in the glaring sun.

There will be masses of flowers, reproductions of the handsome old buildings with their grillwork and other things that are typical of New Orleans.

The flowers are in the main not particularly distinctive, being of a general ' lily type ', with six tepals, either free or fused from the base.

Species are used as food and flavourings ( e. g. onion, garlic, leek, asparagus, vanilla ), as cut flowers ( e. g. freesia, gladiolus, iris, orchids ), and as garden ornamentals ( e. g. day lilies, lily of the valley, Agapanthus ).

The flowers are often at the tip of the stem and are mainly of a rather generalized ' lily type ', with six tepals and up to six stamens.

* The flowers of Asparagales are of a general type among the lilioid monocots.

They are commonly called " Christmas Bells ", because of the shape of their flowers and their flowering time, which coincides with Christmas in Australia.

The flowers are radially symmetrical.

The individual flowers are small, with tepals joined at the base.

The individual flowers are blue, shortly tubular, with an inferior ovary.

The sub-umbellate inflorescences are borne at the end of long stems, having numerous bright red flowers, which are radially symmetric with inferior ovaries.

Members of the family are usually perennial herbs with sword-shaped unifacial leaves ; the inflorescence is a spike or panicle of solitary flowers, or forms a monochasial cyme or rhipidium ( meaning that the successive stems of the flowers follow a zig-zag path in the same plane ); and the flower has only three stamens, each opposite to an outer tepal.

The flowers are arranged in various types of inflorescence.

The flowers are quite large, blue or white, forming an umbel at the end of a stem ( scape ) which is longer than the leaves.

They are herbaceous perennials with bulbs, and can be identified by their rather fleshy leaves, usually large and attractive flowers, with six stamens and an inferior ovary.

The flowers are solitary or, more frequently, arranged in umbellate inflorescences at the end of a stem ( scape ).

Proposed subgroups are difficult to recognise, having similar ' lily-like ' flowers, with the result that some members of the group have been included in different subgroups at different times.

The flowers are usually arranged in inflorescences, and the mature seeds lack endosperm.

Most aquatic species have a totally submerged juvenile phase, and flowers are either floating or emergent.

Several genera are popular with the horticultural community, including marigold, pot marigold ( also known as calendula ), cone flowers, various daisies, fleabane, chrysanthemums, dahlias, zinnias, and heleniums.

The flowers are nearly always aggregated in terminal umbels, simple or compound, often umbelliform cymes, rarely in heads.

The flowers are nearly perfectly pentamerous, with 5 petals, sepals, and stamens.

The flowers are white to pale pink, diameter with five petals, produced singly or in pairs and appearing before the leaves in early spring.

The flowers are erect or spreading ( not pendulous like those of the closely allied Brugmansia ), trumpet-shaped, 5 – 20 cm long and 4 – 12 cm broad at the mouth ; colors vary from white to yellow, pink, and pale purple.

* ' Pyramidalis ' ( a. k. a. ' Erectus ') – fastigate form, pale blue flowers

* ' Salem ' – pale blue flowers, cold hardy similar to ' Arp '

The leaves are 1 to 3 cm long, with flowers forming in whorls on the stem, white to pale pink-violet.

The flowers are pure pale blue, 15 – 25 mm diameter, with five petals ; they can also be bright red.

Other South African species are: T. arvense, hare's-foot trefoil ; found in fields and dry pastures, a soft hairy plant with minute white or pale pink flowers and feathery sepals ; T. fragiferum, orange clover, with hot-grounded, globose, rose-purple heads and swollen calyxes ; T. procumbens, hop trefoil, on dry pastures and roadsides, the heads of pale yellow flowers suggesting miniature hops ; and the somewhat similar T. minus, common in pastures and roadsides, with smaller heads and small yellow flowers turning dark brown.

The pale yellow, fringed flowers are borne on long stalks.

The flowers are produced in dense clusters along the stems, each flower with fine small petals and a tight bundle of stamens ; flower colour varies from white to pink, red, pale yellow or greenish.

* Epacris impressa ' Grampians ' – pale pink flowers

Sainfoins have pale pink flowers, typically blooming between June and September and pollinated by honey bees and solitary bees.

The flowers are produced in a panicle or corymb up to 26 cm long, each flower small, pale green at first then turning reddish, with five slender, acute petals 7 to 15 mm long.

Staminate flowers are borne in hairy aments two to three inches long ; calyx pale yellow, hairy, deeply seven to nine-lobed ; stamens seven to nine ; anthers bright yellow.

A pale purple colour is generally known as lilac after the characteristic color of the flowers of many kinds of lilac, especially Syringa vulgaris.

The male flowers are without calyx or corolla, and comprise a group of 4 – 60 stamens inserted on a disk ; filaments short, pale yellow ; anthers oblong, purple or red, introrse, two-celled ; cells opening longitudinally.

The flowers are bell-shaped, white to pale pink, long, and produced in the early summer.

Partially pollinated flowers may develop fruit which are green and develop normally near the stem end, but pale yellow and withered at the blossom end.

Catalpa ovata from China, with pale yellow flowers, is also planted outside its natural range for ornamental purposes.

The name is also something of a misnomer ; all gums flower, many are red, Corymbia ficifolia is not really a " gum " but a bloodwood, and its flowers can be any shade between pale cream, through pink, to red, orange or deep crimson.