19+ Nectar Flower Example (Explained for Beginner’s)

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This Article on Nectar flower examples illustrates the all-around information about the 20+different nectar flowers, their functions, with examples in detail.

The word “Nectar” means it contains a variety of chemicals like sugar, water, amino acids, and sweet secretion which help to attract pollinators, and defenders. Flowers use such a kind of different strategies via nectar and it is an essential reward to birds, butterflies, and insects.

Now take a look at the Nectar flowers and their examples in a detailed way :

Lavender

These flower belong to the species of Lamiaceae family. The flower of lavender plants are tubular shaped having white or mauve blue in color. The leaves of this flowers are lanceolate, downy and evergreen.The flower of lavender serve as a ready source of nectar. They also provide medicinal, commercial, ecological value and also serve plants need of reproduction. The most common different species of lavender mainly, Lavandula stoechas, L. dentata ,L.multifida and  L.angustifolia

Coneflower

These flower belong to the species of Astereaceae family. The word corn refers to the central cone of disk flowers. The flowers is highly attractive towards in a wide range of leafcutter beas, honeybees and nativebees. The color of this flower mainly pink, orange, red, white and purple. It produce pollen and nectar and then eventually the seeds. The main part of this flower who design to attract pollinator is “Petals”

Snapdragon

These flowers belong to the species of the Plantaginaceae family. The flowers of snapdragon are bilaterally symmetrical and tubular, can be red, white, lavender, orange, yellow and pink. The arrangement of parts of the flowers mainly two petals face the ground while the other two curl upwards sharply. There are different varieties of this flower mainly madame butterfly and bright butterfly snapdragon, Rocket snapdragon, sonnet, black, Tahiti, La Bella snapdragon, and many more.

Sunflowers

These flower belong to the species of Astereceae family. Sunflower has large flowering head, long stem and large seeds.The most common flower is mainly in yellow, orange or marron. The main role of this flower which act as a main source of nectar and also provide food as a source of seed to animals, birds, bees, butterflies and insects.The main characteristics of this flower having florets that is emerge from densly packed cluster of inflorescence.

Clover Flower

These flower belong to the species of Fabaceae family.The main function of this flower is to release some fragrance through which it attracts bees togather moving flower to flower and the cluster of bees provide a cross fertilization for making honey.The flowers are mainly yellow, dense spike of small red, white and purple in color which having three leaflets.The clover also provide food and habitat for the bacteria for the nitrogen fixation.

clover flower
Nectar flower example
Clover flower
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Aster

These flower belong to the species of Astereceae family.The flowers are usually yellow,strap shaped, having a large terminal clusters with simple and alternate leaves. The main function of this flowers provide nectar as a source for attract insects, bees and pollinators.The main common aster flower species are Aster alpinus, Aster amellus, Aster laevis, Aster cordifolius and many more.

Rose

These flower belong to the species of Rosaceae family. The flowers are mainly attractive red, marron, yellow, pink with delight fragrance, having 1.25 cm to 17.5cm in diameter size.The parts of flowers are varies in types of roses, cultivated roses have multiple petals while wild roses have five petals.The bees are attract towards roses during the flowers are brimming with nectar but it also depends on the preferred factors like color,structure ,shape and type of the roses.

Lantana

These flower belong to the species of Verbenaceae family.The flowers heads are bloom in various color combinations, mainly mix of red, pink, white, yellow, orange and blue, the leaves of this flowers are oval and rough.The cluster of nectar filled blooms act as a magnet for pollinators.The volume of nectar produce by flower depends on the species of lantana. There are common species of lantana mainly, L.peduncularis which has higher volume of nectara produce compare to the nectar volume of L.camara.

lantana
Nectar flower example
Lantana
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Dandelion

These flower belong to the species of Asteraceae family. The flowers are small in size, dense clusters (Inflorescences), each flower has pollen, nectar and around 40 to 100 florets. The pollen and nectar are main resource of flower for the numbers of insects. Fruit of this flower is one seeded and it has parachute like structure and that is help to disperse the seed in the air.

dandelion
Nectar flower example
Dandelion
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Hibiscus

These flower belong to the species of Malvaceae family. The flowers of hibiscus has five or more petals with orange tip anthers, the flower is trumpet shaped, large and having a color mainly yellow to purple, white to pink, orange, red and blue. Hibiscus nectar are located under the ovary and inside the calyx which make nectar in the gland which known as a nectaries. The large, trumpet shaped and bright bloom with nectar and pollen attract birds, butterflies and other insects.

Butterfly Bush

These flowers belong to the species of the Scrophulariaceae family.The butterfly bush is such a flower that acts as a magnet for all butterflies to attract towards them.The flower of the butterfly bush has an attractive cluster of yellow or orange, purple, white, and pink flowers which help to give a good vision to insects and butterflies to attract.These flowers provide a one land space for the insects and butterflies by making one group together to form a flat-topped inflorescences.

butterfly bush
Nectar flower example
Butterfly Bush
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Arabian Jashmin

These flower belong to the species of oleacea family.The flowers are generally lobed, tubular, having climbing branches without tendrils. The flowers are in yellow, white or rarely pink in color.There are other different types of jasmine flowers which act as a nectar and fragrant including cape jasmine, carolina, star, orange jasmine and many more.

Marigold

These flower belong to the species of Asteraceae family. The flowers are mainly clustered and solitary on the stems, having attractive red, orange and yellow composite flowers. The flower head is around 4 to 6cm in diameter having disc floret and ray floret. The bloom occur naturally in yellow, golden, orange and white in color. The marigold has an attractive yellow color and also the main significant source as a pollen and nectar to attract honeybee, hover flies, ladybugs and other beneficial insects which help to protect the plants from harmful agents and pests.

Solidago

These flower belong to the species of Asteraceae family. The flower is also known as a goldenrod which having bright yellow or golden flower.it contains 7 to 20 petals and more than one inch in length .The shape of the flower is saucer. It form very dense ,terminal, club shaped clusters of ten or more to attract the bees and insects inside them.

Dahlia

These flower belong to the species of Asteraceae family. Dahlia is compound flower, having segmented simple leaves. It has purple, white, yellow, red in color, the head of this flower contain both a central disc floret and ray floret. These flower has a several group of dahilas namely, Single flower, Anemone flower ,Collerette ,Waterlily ,Decorative, Ball, pompon, cactus, single and double orchid,fibriated dahilas and many more.Such kind of Dahilas provide and produce varities of bloom and nectar rich pollen that are popular for butterflies, bees and other pollinators.

dahila
Nectar flower example
Dahlia
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Passionflower

These flower belong to the species of Passifloraceae family.The arrangement and the size of flower is very attractive towards the pollinators namely carpenter bees and bumblebees. These large flower exhibit five white bluish petal and one ring like structure arranged above the sepals and petals, it has a one structure of fine appendages between stamen and petals that visualize in purple and whitish in color. At the base of each leaf, it contains an extrafloral nectaries which provide ants which act as a nutritious nectar.

passion flower
Nectar flower example
Passionflower
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Rosemary

These flower belong to the species of lamiaceae family.The flowers are in attractive clustered form in five to seven blossom with variable in color namely blue, white, purple and pink.It has tiny, sessile, simple and evergreen needles like narrow leaves.The rosemary is one of flower who provide an early nectar for pollinators like masons and bumbles type emerging spring bees. The lower lip of flower provide a one landing platform for the pollinators to hang during sipping nectar. The nectar always hidden at the base of flower tube where honeybee or bumble bee can easily reach the side of floral tube base.

rosemary
Nectar flower example
Rosemary
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Cosmos

These flower belong to the species of Astereceae family. The color of flowers are variable among the different species. The ray flowers are mostly in purple, pink or white and the disk flowers are yellow or red.The flowers are present in an open cluster that is known for attracting different pollinators like birds, moths or butterflies and insects.

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Nectar flower example
Cosmos
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There are other many different examples of nectar flowers like,

There are different factors are responsible for raising the level and influence of nectar in flowers,

For example,

These all flowers do the same function to attract pollinators via the production of different concentrations of nectar for the fertilization, pollination and to perform different defensive mechanisms against toxic and pathogenic agents.

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