🌼SOME FLOWERS IN WITCHCRAFT🌼
Banishing negative energy: Lilac, Snapdragon
Beauty: Amaryllis, Pentas, Wolf’s Bane
Clairvoyance: Poppy, Queen Anne’s Lace
Communication: Datura (with Deities), Foxglove (with Fae), Pansy
Courage: Geranium, King Protea
Divination: Chicory, Damiana, Datura, Hibiscus, Pansy, Poppy, Rose
Dreams: Calendula (psychic dreams), Dandelion, Datura, Poppy
Energy: Carnation, Sunflower (sun energy)
Exorcism: Angelica, Dandelion, Datura, Henbane, Lilac
Fertility: Daffodil, Damiana, Foxglove, Geranium, Heather, Myrtile, Poppy, Queen Anne’s Lace, Sunflower
Friendship: Hydrangea, Passion Flower
Happiness: Calendula, Hyacinth, Lily of the Valley, Pansy, Scarlet Pimpernel, Sunflower, Tulip
Harmony: Gardenia, Iris, Jasmine, Lavender, Poppy, Rose, Violet
Healing: Arnica, Angelica, Calendula, Carnation, Chicory, Gardenia, Geranium, Heather, Lavender, Rose, Scarlet Pimpernel, Vervain
Innocence: Daisy, Freesia
Invisibility: Poppy, Wolf’s Bane
Joyfulness: Birds of Paradise
Love: Buttercup, Daffodil, Daisy, Damiana, Datura, Foxglove, Gardenia, Geranium, Heather, Hibiscus, Hyachint, Iris, Jasmine, Lavender, Lilac, Orchid, Pansy, Pentas, Poppy, Queen Anne’s Lace, Tulip, Vervain, Violet, Yarrow Flower
Luck: Carnation, Chicory, Daffodil, Dandalion, Honeysuckle, Poppy, Violet
Lust: Damiana, Heather, Hibiscus, Queen Anne’s Lace
Marriage: Buttercup, Yarrow Flower
Money: Bergamot, Chamomile, Honeysuckle
Passion: Chamomile, Passion Flower, Rose
Peace: Gardenia, Iris, Lavender, Passion Flower, Poppy, Violet
Prosperity: Jasmine, Poppy
Protection: Angelica, Arnica, Carnation, Datura, Dogwood, Foxglove, Geranium, Heather, Holly, Hyacinth, Lilac, Lily, Marigold, Rose, Scarlet Pimpernel, Snapdragon, Tulip, Vervain, Violet, Wolf’s Bane
Psychic Ability: Arnica, Calendula, Damiana, Orchid, Rose, Moonflower
Purification: Chicory, Dandelion, Lavender
Relaxation: Chamomile, Jasmine, Lavender, Poppy, Vervain
Removal of Curses/Breaking Hexes: Chicory, Datura, Hydrangea, Lily
Second sight: Henbane, Queen Anne’s Lace, Scarlet Pimpernel
Sexuality: Damiana, Foxglove
Sleep: Chamomile, Elderflower, Linden, Poppy, Violet
Spirit: Arnica (keeps unwanted spirits at bay), Bergamot (lifts spirit), Dandelion (summoning spirits), Heather (conjuring spirits), Honeysuckle
Spirituality: Jasmine, Queen Anne’s Lace, Rose
Strength: Carnation, Chicory
Success: Bergamot, Chicory, Sunflower
Tranquility: Lavender, Poppy, Rose, Violet
Transformation: Datura, King Protea, Moonflower, Scarlet Pimpernel
Vision: Angelica, Damiana, Datura
Wealth: Elderflower, Honeysuckle, Jasmine
🌈Flower Colours and Magical Correspondences🌈
- BLACK AND DARK BURGUNDY: The Crone, banishing, breaking hexes, and removing negativity
- BLUE: Element of water, healing, sleep, and peace
- BROWN AND BEIGE: Home, stability, and pets
- GREEN: The God, element of earth, faeries, healing, money, luck and fertility
- PINK: Friendship, children, affection and love
- PURPLE: Power, psychic abilities and passion
- RED: The Mother, element of fire, lust, love, sex, healing and protection
- WHITE: The Maiden, all purpose, purification, protection, and moon magick
- YELLOW: Element of air, wisdom, mental powers,and divination
- ORANGE: Energy, vitality, and success
🌻🍂Flowers of the Month🍃❄️
- January: carnation (bestows energy, healing), snowdrop (symbolizes new beginnings)
- February: violet (love, protection), primrose (protection, love)
- March: daffodil (fertility, love)
- April: sweet pea (friendship, strength), daisy (love), lily (keeps negative influences away [White: symbol for the archangel Gabriel])
- May: lily of the valley (perks you up, lifts your spirits [all part of the flower are mildly toxic, should not be ingested]), hawthorn (fertility, happiness, good luck in fishing)
- June: rose (love), honeysuckle (prosperity)
- July: larkspur (health, protection), water lily (healing, emotions, psychic powers [use it in water spells, rituals])
- August: gladiola (ending relationships, ending situations,), poppy (luck, prosperity)
- September: morning glory (can be used in binding spells, peace, happiness), aster (can be used in love spells)
- October: calendula (strength, healing, justice)
- November: chrysanthemum (protection, protects you from negativity)
- December: holly (protection, male plant), ivy (fidelity, love, female plant)
🔱Goddesses and Associated Plants🔱
- APHRODITE: Violet, Morning glory, Rose, Linden, Heather, Queen Anne’s Lace, Daisy and all true blue flowers
- APOLLO: Arnica, Henbane
- ARADIA: Rue, Vervain, Verbena
- ARIANRHOD: Linden
- ARTEMIS: Artemesia, Daisy, Damiana
- ASTRAEA: Aster, Michaelmas daisy
- BAST: Catnip
- BIL: Henbane
- BRIGHID OR BRIDE: Dandelion, Crocus, Helebores
- CERNUNNOS: Chamomile
- CERRIDWEN: Vervain/verbena
- CHRONOS: Henbane
- CYBELE: Chrysanthemum
- DEMETER OR CERES: Red Poppy
- DIANA: Rue, Henbane, Rose
- DRYADS: Daisy
- FAE: Daisy
- FREYA: Maidenhair fern, Daisy, Rose, Primrose and Arnica
- GANESHA: Damiana
- HADES: Datura
- HATHOR: Rose
- HECATE: Cyclamen, Lavender, Willow, Hensbane, Datura, Wolf’s Bane and Monkshood (aconite)
- HEL: Chrysanthemum
- HERA: Iris, Willow
- HESTIA: Passion Flower
- HOLDA: Rose in full bloom
- HYPNOS: Passion Flower
- IRIS: Iris, Rose
- ISIS: Rose, Heather and purple Iris
- JUNO: Iris
- JUPITER: Carnation
- KALO: Hibiscus
- LADY OF GUADALUPE: Red and pink roses, Poinsettias
- LILITH: Lily; Deep-Red, Thorny, Garden-Style Roses
- LUNA: Queen Anne’s Lace
- MAE LABRAID: Heather
- MAIA: Scarlet Pimpernel
- MARS: Daffodil
- MEDEA: Lavender
- MERCURY: Chamomile
- MINERVA: Thistle, Olive, and Mulberries
- NATURAJA: Datura
- NECHTAN: Heather
- NEPHTHYS: Lily
- OESTRE: Daisy
- OSHUN: Chamomile, Yarrow Flower
- PERSEPHONE: Parsley, Pomegranate, Henbane
- RA: Arnica, Chamomile
- SATURN: Datura, Lavender
- SELENE: Rose, Bluebell, Nicotiana, Queen Anne’s Lace and all white and night-blooming flowers
- SHANGO: Hibiscus
- SHAVA: Linden
- SHIVA: Datura
- ST. ANNE: Chamomile
- T’AO YUAN-MING: Chrysanthemum
- VENUS: Violet, Morning glory, Rose, Hibiscus, Queen Anne’s Lace, Heather and all true blue flowers
- YEMAYA: Passion Flower, Yarrow Flower
- ZEUS: Damiana
Source: Garden Witchery - Magic from the ground up by Ellen Dugan