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Home Types of Plants: The Four Major Classifications of Plants Types of Flowers

Thread-like flowers are a relatively new trend, and they’re coming in droves. From thread-like chrysanthemums to thread-like lavender, the variety is endless.

What are thread-like flowers? They’re blooms that have been carefully arranged into a long string of petals resembling a traditional thread spool. The string can vary in thickness from a single petals line to an intricate webbing.

As the flower blooms, it slowly unfurls and reveals itself. The result is a beautiful bouquet that is unlike anything you’ve ever seen before. But, the craftsmanship doesn’t stop there. Thread-like flowers are delicate and soft, and fluffy. They add flair to your everyday florals without going overboard with color and design.

Thread-Like Flowers

Here are some of the pretty flowers resembling threads from the plant world.

Adam’s Needle

Flower Type: Shrubs/Trees

Adam's needle is commonly known as needle palm, yucca, and Spanish bayonet, is an evergreen broad-leaved shrub that is practically stemless that originates from sand dunes beaches.

Ageratum

Flower Type: Annuals

Ageratum, a long-popular bedding plant, is becoming increasingly popular as a cut flower due to its pom-pom-shaped flower heads and large, dark green foliage.

American Ash

Flower Type: Trees

Ash trees are spectacular trees with great cultural significance and mystical beliefs in various aspects of human life. Ash is generally known as the "Tree of Life" as it's believed to be the foundation of humanity from the past.

Baneberry

Baneberry flowers are ideal for cool, shady places; the thread-like Baneberry flowers bring a vacation-inspired look to your backyard. Two (2) species of Baneberry are common in North America: Actaea rubra (Red Baneberry) and Actaea pachypoda (White Baneberry).

Bighead Knapweed

Flower Type: Perennials

Bighead Knapweed flower features a beautiful, showy yellow thread-like bloom, but make no mistake - the Bighead Knapweed is very invasive. It also features a large taproot that becomes more resilient with age. The leaves are lanceolate and 10 to 30 inches long with slightly pointed ends.

Brassicales / Mustard & Cabbage Flowers

Brassicales is an order of flowering plants comprising trees, herbs, shrubs, or lianas primarily distributed worldwide. Brassicales have glucosinolates or mustard oils, small stipules, often bisexual flowers, inflorescences in racemose, and nectaries found between the petals and the stamens. The known plants of Brassicales are mustard, cabbage, capers, mignonette, and nasturtiums.

Buckbean

Flower Type: Perennials

Buckbean (Menyanthes trifoliate), commonly known as marsh trefoil or bogbean, is an emergent rhizomatous perennial that generally grows in shallow water at the edge of lakes/ponds in swamps. The 5-petaled star-shaped hairy whitish flowers bloom in terminal clusters on stems up to 12 inches tall in May and June.

Dodder

Dodder (Cuscuta cephalanthi) belongs to a genus of over 200 species of obligate air-parasitic plants in the Convolvulaceae family.Dodder flowers appear in greenish-yellow or white clusters.

Eucalyptus

Flower Type: Annuals

Known for their minty scent and as a filler in cut flower bouquets, eucalyptus plants can make showy annuals and stunning potted plants as well. The colors of the flowers are pink, white, and red.

False Spirea

Flower Type: Perennials

This suckering shrub, native to Korea, Japan, China, and Eastern Siberia, is known as the False Spiraea (Sorbaria sorbifolia) because of the similarity of its white pyramidal flower panicles to those of Spiraea (steeplebush). The flowers are conspicuous racemes of small white flowers in dense cone-shaped panicles 4-10 inches long.

Fuji Mums

Accent your home garden with the stunning beauty of Fuji Mums (spider chrysanthemums). Also known as spider mums, Fuji Mums bring a unique flower shape to the garden. Some Fuji Mums have thin, wiry petals; in other species, the petals are thicker. Fuji Mums come in various shades, including lavender, white, pink, gold, and orange.

Gaura

Flower Type: Perennials

Attract butterflies and other pollinators to your garden with Gaura's long stems made of delicate flowers. It is a perennial herb that grows to around 15 to 48 inches in height. The flowers are pink, white, or a mixture of the two colors.

Goat’s Beard

Flower Type: Perennials

Goat's Beard (Aruncus dioicus), also called bride's feathers, is a perennial plant in the Rosaceae family. The pinnate clusters of filmy cream-colored thread-like flowers grow on long, branching spikes above the foliage and bloom from late May to mid-July.

Hypericum Berry

Flower Type: Annuals/Perennials

Hypericum Berries are very variable and occur as shrubs, trees, perennials, and annuals. Hypericum is a genus of plants in the Hypericaceae family. Hypericum berries are available in various colors, including red, pink, green, and white. It has bright yellow five-petalled flowers with prominent stamens that bloom in midsummer.

Japanese Honeysuckle

Flower Type: Perennials

Japanese Honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica) is sinuous and fragrant forest anesthesia. Flowering occurs from late spring to early summer, when conspicuous, tubular, fragrant, whitish-pink blooms develop in the leaf axils. As they age, the flowers turn creamy yellow.

Japanese Snake Gourd

Flower Type: Trees

Trichosanthes is a perennial vine native to Japan. These thread-like flowers are aromatic and bloom from summer to early fall. The Trichosanthes cucumerina tangled with other plants or trees.

Love-in-a-Mist

Flower Type: Annuals

With a popular name like Love-in-a-Mist, one could guess that Nigella damascena would have a romantic story. The flowers are usually pale blue to light blue, but some can be lavender, pink, or white. Each flower is 1½-inches wide, with five large, petal-shaped sepals and tiny, deeply divided petals hidden under the stamens.

Melaleuca

Melaleuca is a genus of almost 300 plant species in the myrtle (Myrtaceae) family, commonly known as tea tree, honey myrtle, or paper bark. These common names refer to many species' scaly bark and the nectar produced in their flowers. The flower color varies from pink to white, red, green, or pale yellow.

Nerine

Flower Type: Perennials

Nerine, also known as spider lily, Jersey lily, and Guernsey lily, is a genus of plants in the Amaryllidaceae family. Nerine grows up to 2 feet in the fall with thong-shaped leaves and large umbels of pink, lily-like flowers when almost nothing else is blooming.

Nigella

Flower Type: Annuals

Nigella sativa, also known as kalonji, nigella, or black cumin, is an annual plant in the Ranunculaceae family native to western Asia (Iraq, Iran, and Turkey) and Eastern Europe (Romania, Bulgaria, and Cyprus). The light blue or white flowers have 5 petals, many stamens, and 5 or 6 oblong, fused carpels.

Paper Reed

Flower Type: Perennials

Cyperus papyrus, also called paper reed or Egyptian reed, is an African tufted species native to the southern Mediterranean, the wettest parts of Africa, and Madagascar. It is a dense collection of many bright green thread-like rays. Tiny secondary umbels are formed with 3 to 5 rays and elongated, narrow bracts at the tips of the rays.

Passionflower

Passionflowers are a genus of around 500 species characterized by a characteristic pattern of radiant filaments and tiered structures. Passionflowers are around 3 inches in diameter and are usually white, pink, blue, purple, red, or multi-colored.

Round-leaved Sundew

Drosera rotundifolia, common sundew or round-leaved sundew, is a carnivorous plant that grows in fens, marshes, and swamps. The flowers grow on one side of a single, thin, glabrous stem extending from the leaf rosette center.

Tassel flower

Flower Type: Annuals

The Tassel flower is a small, intriguing plant on the front edge, producing tiny scarlet-orange pompoms that appear to float in mid-air when viewed from a distance. Also known as Cupid's shaving brush or Emilia, the tassel flower is a genus of over 100 species in the Asteraceae family found primarily in the tropics of the Old World.