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Q. Which flower blooms chick-yellow in spring?
Options: Azalea · Cosmos · Chrysanthemum · Forsythia
Answer: Forsythia
Forsythia is the yellow flower that announces the spring.
Q. Which flower blooms big and beautiful in a summer pond?
Options: Chrysanthemum · Rose · Camellia · Lotus
Answer: Lotus
The lotus. Its leaves bounce water right off, so it stays clean even in muddy water. That's why it has long been loved as the flower of a clear heart.
Q. Which flower stands for autumn?
Options: Chrysanthemum · Cherry blossom · Tulip · Forsythia
Answer: Chrysanthemum
The chrysanthemum. It keeps blooming stubbornly until the frost comes, so it stands for holding to your principles — and people brew it as a tea, too.
Q. Which of these does NOT bloom in spring?
Options: Cherry blossom · Forsythia · Cosmos · Azalea
Answer: Cosmos
The cosmos. Forsythia, azalea, and magnolia announce the spring, but the cosmos sways along autumn roadsides.
Q. Which flower blooms in early spring, even in the snow?
Options: Morning glory · Rose · Plum blossom · Sunflower
Answer: Plum blossom
The plum blossom is a tough flower that blooms even in the snow.
Q. Which flower opens in the morning and closes by midday?
Options: Rose · Dandelion · Sunflower · Morning glory
Answer: Morning glory
The morning glory. It looks like a little trumpet, just as its name suggests, and it's a busy flower — open at sunrise, closed by noon.
Q. Which flower is the classic symbol of love?
Options: Dandelion · Rose · Chrysanthemum · Foxtail grass
Answer: Rose
The red rose means passionate love.
Q. What is the sunflower known to stand for?
Options: Parting · Longing and waiting · Anger · Jealousy
Answer: Longing and waiting
It means a heart that stays true, like the sunflower always turning to the sun.
Q. What does a four-leaf clover stand for?
Options: Sadness · Courage · Good luck · Wealth
Answer: Good luck
The four-leaf clover means luck! The three-leaf clover means 'happiness'.
Q. On which day do people give carnations?
Options: New Year's Day · Thanksgiving · Mother's Day · Halloween
Answer: Mother's Day
On Mother's Day, people give carnations to say thank you.
🌼 Q. Which flower blooms yellow first of all, announcing the spring?
Options: Chrysanthemum · Forsythia · Cosmos · Sunflower
Answer: Forsythia
Yellow forsythia announces the spring!
🌸 Q. Which flower washes the hills and fields pink in spring?
Options: Azalea · Camellia · Cosmos · Chrysanthemum
Answer: Azalea
The azalea. Its flowers open before its leaves do, painting whole hillsides pink.
🌸 Q. Which flower fills the trees with pale pink in spring, then falls like snow?
Options: Cherry blossom · Chrysanthemum · Morning glory · Cosmos
Answer: Cherry blossom
Cherry blossom. About a week after it opens, it scatters like a rain of petals, which is why it became the symbol of a short, brilliant spring.
🌼 Q. Which flower makes a yellow wave in spring and is pressed for oil?
Options: Chrysanthemum · Canola flower · Sunflower · Rose
Answer: Canola flower
Fields of canola turn whole hillsides yellow!
💜 Q. Which climbing flower hangs down in purple bunches in spring?
Options: Chrysanthemum · Cosmos · Camellia · Wisteria
Answer: Wisteria
Purple wisteria in the shade of the vine!
🌻 Q. Which big flower turns its head to follow the summer sun?
Options: Plum blossom · Camellia · Chrysanthemum · Sunflower
Answer: Sunflower
The sunflower looks toward the sun!
🌺 Q. Which flower climbs walls and fences in summer?
Options: Camellia · Plum blossom · Morning glory · Chrysanthemum
Answer: Morning glory
The morning glory opens wide in the morning!
💠 Q. Which flower blooms in big round clusters in the summer rains and changes color?
Options: Hydrangea · Forsythia · Plum blossom · Chrysanthemum
Answer: Hydrangea
The hydrangea changes color depending on the soil!
💅 Q. What did children do with garden balsam petals in summer?
Options: Only made flower rings · Dyed their fingernails · Made perfume · Only told flower fortunes
Answer: Dyed their fingernails
They wrapped the petals onto their nails to dye them orange!
🌸 Q. Which pink and white flower sways in the autumn fields?
Options: Forsythia · Plum blossom · Azalea · Cosmos
Answer: Cosmos
Autumn means cosmos!
🏵️ Q. Which flower stands for autumn and is also used in memorials and made into tea?
Options: Chrysanthemum · Azalea · Morning glory · Forsythia
Answer: Chrysanthemum
The chrysanthemum, flower of autumn!
🌺 Q. Which warm-country flower blooms red in the snow, from winter to early spring?
Options: Cosmos · Sunflower · Morning glory · Camellia
Answer: Camellia
The camellia, which blooms in winter!
🌸 Q. Which flower opens before its leaves in early spring, with a soft scent?
Options: Cosmos · Plum blossom · Chrysanthemum · Sunflower
Answer: Plum blossom
The plum blossom beats the cold and blooms!
💜 Q. Which purple spring flower smells so strong it's called 'the queen of scent'?
Options: Morning glory · Chrysanthemum · Sunflower · Lilac
Answer: Lilac
The lilac. Its scent is so strong that it drifts right over the garden wall.
🤍 Q. Which tree flower opens big and white (or pink) before its leaves in spring?
Options: Cosmos · Morning glory · Magnolia · Chrysanthemum
Answer: Magnolia
The magnolia, blooming big at the tips of the branches!
🌷 Q. Which bell-shaped bulb flower fills spring flower beds along with tulips?
Options: Sunflower · Chrysanthemum · Cosmos · Hyacinth
Answer: Hyacinth
The sweet-smelling hyacinth!
🌷 Q. Which classic spring flower grows from a bulb and opens like a little cup?
Options: Tulip · Chrysanthemum · Cosmos · Sunflower
Answer: Tulip
The tulip of the Netherlands!
🌺 Q. Which big showy flower is called 'the flower of flowers' and stands for riches?
Options: Shepherd's purse flower · The tree peony · Dandelion · Violet
Answer: The tree peony
The tree peony, flower of wealth and glory!
🌹 Q. What is the rose best known to stand for?
Options: Parting · Love · Sadness · Hate
Answer: Love
The red rose means love!
💙 Q. What does the forget-me-not stand for?
Options: Come quickly · Goodbye · Don't forget me · I'm angry
Answer: Don't forget me
'Don't forget me' — the forget-me-not!
🌷 Q. What is closest to what a red tulip stands for?
Options: A confession of love · Sadness · Hate · Parting
Answer: A confession of love
The red tulip is a confession of love!
🤍 Q. What does baby's breath stand for when used with other flowers?
Options: Sadness · Anger · A clear heart and pure love · Jealousy
Answer: A clear heart and pure love
Baby's breath, so often used in bouquets!
🏵️ Q. Where are white chrysanthemums mostly used?
Options: Sports days · Funerals (remembrance) · Birthday parties · Only graduations
Answer: Funerals (remembrance)
White chrysanthemums honor someone who has passed away.
🌸 Q. On which days do people give carnations to parents and teachers?
Options: Christmas · Mother's Day and Teacher Appreciation Day · Children's Day · New Year's Day
Answer: Mother's Day and Teacher Appreciation Day
A carnation carries a thank-you!
☘️ Q. What does the three-leaf clover stand for?
Options: Parting · Sadness · Happiness · Good luck
Answer: Happiness
The plain old three-leaf clover means 'happiness'! It's right there beside you.
🐝 Q. What powder do bees and butterflies carry so a flower can make seeds?
Options: Flour · Sugar · Pollen · Dust
Answer: Pollen
Pollen. The bee gets nectar and the flower gets its pollen carried, so they help each other out.
🦋 Q. Why do bees and butterflies visit flowers?
Options: To color them in · To drink the sweet nectar · To sleep · To hide
Answer: To drink the sweet nectar
They drink the nectar and carry the pollen as they go!
🌸 Q. Why do flowers have pretty colors and scents?
Options: To be sold to people · For no reason · To call bees and butterflies · To glow at night
Answer: To call bees and butterflies
They call insects in, so their pollen gets carried!
🌼 Q. Which part in the middle of the flower becomes the seed (fruit)?
Options: The pistil · The petals · The stem · The sepals
Answer: The pistil
The pistil. When pollen touches its tip, seeds form in the ovary below, and that ovary grows into the fruit.
🌸 Q. Which part surrounds the pistil and makes the pollen?
Options: The roots · The leaves · The stamens · The sepals
Answer: The stamens
The stamens. The little sacs on their tips make pollen and send it off on the wind or with a bee or butterfly.
🌿 Q. What is the green part that holds up and wraps a flower bud from below?
Options: The sepals · The fruit · The pistil · The stamens
Answer: The sepals
The sepals. While it's a bud they wrap and protect the soft petals, and once it opens they hold it up from below.
🍎 Q. What appears once a flower has faded?
Options: Roots · The fruit and seeds · Only leaves · New petals
Answer: The fruit and seeds
Flower, then fruit, then seed!
🌙 Q. Some flowers open at night to call moths. What color are they usually?
Options: Purple · White (easy to see at night) · Red · Black
Answer: White (easy to see at night)
Many are white, which shows up well in the moonlight!
🌬️ Q. What appears when a dandelion flower fades, and flies away when you blow it?
Options: Leaves · Nectar · Only pollen · Fluffy seeds
Answer: Fluffy seeds
They ride the wind far away!
🌺 Q. Which flower is the national flower of Korea?
Options: Tulip · Rose · Rose of Sharon · Cherry blossom
Answer: Rose of Sharon
The rose of Sharon. Its Korean name means 'the flower without end'.
🌺 Q. What is special about the rose of Sharon?
Options: It only blooms in winter · It blooms, fades, and blooms again, for a long time · It blooms for one day only · It only blooms at night
Answer: It blooms, fades, and blooms again, for a long time
'Mugung' in its Korean name means 'without end'!
🪷 Q. What makes the lotus special?
Options: It blooms clean, even in the mud · It has no scent · It walks on water · It runs away at night
Answer: It blooms clean, even in the mud
The lotus, which the mud can't stain!
🌹 Q. What do you have to watch out for on a rose stem?
Options: Fire · Poison · Thorns · Electricity
Answer: Thorns
A pretty rose has thorns!
🏺 Q. What's a good way to make cut flowers in a vase last?
Options: Dry them right out in the sun · Don't give them water · Change the water often · Put them in the freezer
Answer: Change the water often
Clean water makes flowers last longer!
🍂 Q. Which of these does NOT bloom in autumn?
Options: Asters · Cosmos · Azalea · Chrysanthemum
Answer: Azalea
The azalea. Chrysanthemums, cosmos, and asters are autumn flowers, but the azalea washes the spring hills in pink.