The Iris is one of the flowers listed as birth flower for February. There was a fragrant lily flower growing. "Little Flower" () in 1979, for which she won the Hundred Flowers Award (). Buddhist compare their fingers with the petals of the lotus flower. In contrast to floral nectaries, nectar produced outside the flower generally have a defensive function. It is a popular garden flower. Each "petal" consists of a ligule composed of fused petals of an asymmetrical ray flower. Archaeologists found in several grave sites remnants of flower petals. Carnations are the traditional first wedding anniversary flower. Many deciduous trees flower before the new leaves emerge. The control tower is in the shape of the Turkish national flower, the tulip. Picotee blue represents the color of the picotee flower. Luoyang is also celebrated for the cultivation of peonies, its city flower. Red flower, White flower, and Old thousand. Only in mid-autumn do they flower.