Purple & Lavender Flowers

Purple flowers feel rich and calm at once, a thoughtful pick for a birthday, Mother's Day, a promotion or a sympathy gift. This collection holds deep violet and soft lavender designs, each built by hand by a florist near the recipient.

Here, lavender names the color, so you'll find lavender flowers like roses, carnations and stock, not the herb. The guide below explains the shades, the blooms behind them, and when purple suits a celebration or a farewell.

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Choosing purple flowers

Deep purple or soft lavender

Deeper purples are traditionally linked with royalty, a nod to how rare purple dye once was, and with dignity and admiration, which makes a purple flower bouquet a fitting way to congratulate a mentor or a graduate. Lavender reads gentler and is often tied to grace and calm. Lavender roses come in several counts: Ultimate Lavender Roses offers one, two or three dozen, Premium Lavender Roses 12, 18 or 24, and Deluxe Elegance Long Stem Lavender Roses two to four dozen in a tall vase. Marilyn sets a dozen lavender roses with double lilies, and Lavender Embrace keeps to purple and white roses with no filler. Purple is a popular birthday color too, so browse birthday flowers for more.

The flowers behind the color

Roses appear in about three in five designs, followed by daisies, carnations, chrysanthemums and lilies. Purple stock adds soft spikes and a clove-like scent to Blushing Lavender Bouquet, beside light pink roses and lavender carnations. Purple hydrangeas bring volume to Vibrant Violets, set with hot pink roses in a glass cube. For a desk or a shelf, Purples in Paris tucks Oriental lilies and Dendrobium orchids, often read as a sign of respect, into a cube just 4.75 inches across. For texture, Gathering Gratitude adds kale and dusty miller to hydrangea, daisies and garden roses, and Flower Cottage Mélange uses purple cabbage in a wood container.

Purple for remembrance

Purple has long been tied to dignity and, in many Christian traditions, to reflection, which makes it a fitting sympathy color. About a third of these designs are made for a loss. The Lavender and White Funeral Standing Spray is built full and even on every side, and the Heartfelt Sympathies Lavender & White Standing Basket gathers roses, daisies, carnations and chrysanthemums. For a memorial with an urn, Meadows of Memories surrounds it with soft lavender and green blooms. See our purple sympathy flowers for more.

Purple and lavender flower questions

What does a purple bouquet symbolize?

A purple bouquet is often read as admiration, dignity and success, which suits a promotion, a graduation or someone you look up to. Lighter lavender shades are more often linked with serenity, grace and devotion, so a lavender bouquet works well for a friend or a mom.

Are lavender flowers the same as the lavender plant?

Not on this page. Lavender here describes a soft purple color, carried by roses, carnations, stock and daisies, rather than the fragrant herb. If scent matters most to you, look for designs with stock or lilies, two flowers well known for their fragrance.

What are some popular purple flowers?

Favorites include lavender roses, stock, lisianthus, hydrangea, iris, asters, alstroemeria, orchids and tulips. Iris, traditionally tied to wisdom and faith, adds a deep blue-violet to mixed designs like Joyous Day, and in spring, tulip bouquets such as Timeless Tulips bring purple alongside orange and yellow.

Do purple flowers work for Mother's Day?

Yes, especially paired with pink. Marvelous Mom Bouquet sets purple Asiatic lilies beside pink roses, and Mother's Dream mixes purple stock with light pink roses. Mother's Day is always a Sunday, so choose Saturday or earlier. See more Mother's Day flowers.