Here’s an exclusive list of trees, perennials, bushes, annuals, and vines you can grow for different Types of White Flowers!
The color white brings peace and serenity with its subtle appearance and smell. This list of amazing White Flowers can be a gorgeous centerpiece indoors or a fresh breath of air in your garden!
Best Types of White Flowers
Trees with White Flowers
1. American Elderberry
Botanical Name: Sambucus canadensis
USDA Zone: 3-10
Height/Spread: 8-12/4-6 feet
Native to eastern North America, the American elderberry thrives in sunny areas. The tree produces a cluster of lemon-scented flowers that are loved by butterflies and pollinators.
2. White Angel’s Trumpet
Botanical Name: Brugmansia spp
USDA Zone: 9-11
Height/Spread: 6-10/2-4 feet
Angel’s Trumpet features fragrant, trumpet-shaped, large flowers. You can also grow it in containers and bring it indoors in cold climates. It flowers from mid-summer to fall.
3. Black Chokeberry
Botanical Name: Aronia melanocarpa
USDA Zone: 3-8
Height/Spread: 4-8/4-6 feet
Black chokeberry displays a cluster of white small-petaled flowers along with the berries that ripen to black in fall. Also, the leaves become purple/red in fall, giving it a gorgeous look!
4. Bridal Wreath Spirea
Botanical Name: Spiraea prunifolia
USDA Zone: 5-9
Height/Spread: 4-8/3-6 feet
This beautiful tree has a thin growth habit. It features a small bunch of double white flowers in spring immediately after the leaves sprout. You can use it for border planting or as a foundation plant.
5. Buttonbush
Botanical Name: Cephalanthus occidentalis
USDA Zone: 5-10
Height/Spread: 8-12/6-8 feet
The tree produces beautiful, unique-looking pin-cushion flowers that attract pollinators and butterflies. This tree tolerates moist and wet soil very well.
6. Carolina Silverbell
Botanical Name: Halesia carolina
USDA Zone: 4-8
Height/Spread: 25-40/20-30 feet
It displays beautiful bell-shaped flowers during April. The yellow-green fall foliage looks attractive but fades early in the season.
7. Giant Dogwood
Botanical Name: Cornus controversa
USDA Zone: 5-8
Height/Spread: 30-40/20-25 feet
This beautiful tree produces a cluster of creamy-white flowers, making way for blue-black fruits that ripen in late summer. The tree is native to China and Japan.
8. Kobus Magnolia
Botanical Name: Magnolia kobus
USDA Zone: 5-8
Height/Spread: 30-45/25-30 feet
Kobus magnolia grows 4-5 inches cup-shaped, creamy-white flowers with prominent yellow-stamen. It grows pyramidal when young but gradually turns into a rounded, spreading form.
9. Natal Plum
Botanical Name: Carissa macrocarpa
USDA Zone: 9-11
Height/Spread: 6-10/4-8 feet
The 2-3 inch, white star-shaped flowers look outstanding with red plum-shaped fruits that taste like cranberries and are used in jams and jellies. You can grow large varieties as screens or specimen plants.
10. Orange Jasmine
Botanical Name: Murraya paniculata
USDA Zone: 9-11
Height/Spread: 8-12 feet tall and wide
Don’t get confused with the name! Orange Jasmine features 1-inch across fragrant flowers with glossy evergreen foliage many times throughout the year. You can also grow it in containers.
Here are some of the best Jasmine varieties you can grow
Perennial White Flowers
11. Wood Lily
Botanical Name: Trillium grandiflorum
USDA Zone: 4-8
Height/Spread: A foot tall and wide
Also known as the great white trillium, it features a flower with three white petals and yellow stamens. The heart-shaped green leaves contrast beautifully with white blooms.
12. Spotted Deadnettle
Botanical Name: Lamium maculatum
USDA Zone: 3-8
Height/Spread: A foot tall and wide
Spotted deadnettle is also known as ‘White Nancy.’ It has beautiful green-golden foliage and dainty white flowers. The lovely scent of flowers attracts many birds in the garden.
13. Lilyturf Monroe’s White
Botanical Name: Liriope muscari ‘Alba’
USDA Zone: 5-10
Height/Spread: 1/1-2 feet
Lilyturf Monroe’s White features dark green, narrow, strap-shaped leaves with spikes of white, grape hyacinth-like flowers in early summer.
14. White Pixie
Botanical Name: Saxifraga ‘White Pixie’
USDA Zone: 4-9
Height/Spread: 3-4/3-5 inches
This mounding evergreen alpine plant beautifully contrasts green foliage with delicate cup-shaped flowers in spring. ‘White Pixie’ is great for screen gardens and walls.
15. White Vinca
Botanical Name: Catharanthus roseus
USDA Zone: 4-9
Height/Spread: A foot tall and wide
Also known as creeping myrtle or periwinkle, this fast-spreading evergreen groundcover showcases white flowers and shiny green leaves that stay lush throughout the year.
16. Yarrow
Botanical Name: Achillea millefolium
USDA Zone: 3-9
Height/Spread: 1-2/1-3 feet
Yarrow’s delicate flowers grow atop thin stems. It is also grown for its medicinal properties to treat minor wounds and muscle cramps.
17. Meadowsweet
Botanical Name: Filipendula ulmaria
USDA Zone: 3-9
Height/Spread: 3-8/2-4 feet
Also known as the queen of the meadow, the lace-like fragrant white flowers with yellow centers look amazing in small clusters. It also possesses medicinal properties.
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18. Korean Spice
Botanical Name: Viburnum carlesii
USDA Zone: 4-7
Height/Spread: 4-5/3-5 feet
This deciduous flowering shrub displays pink buds that open in a cluster of sweet-smelling white flowers that pair well with its fuzzy, toothed leaves.
19. Common Lilac
Botanical Name: Syringa vulgaris
USDA Zone: 3-7
Height/Spread: 10-15/8-10 feet
This flowering shrub is prized with a sweet smell and bears large racemes of flowers that bloom in late spring. It is one of the Best Types of White Flowers!
20. Japanese Andromeda
Botanical Name: Pieris japonica
USDA Zone: 5-8
Height/Spread: 8-10/4-6 feet
Andromeda shrubs are popular for their evergreen foliage. They have fragrant bell-shaped tiny white flowers that contrast beautifully with green leaves.
21. Mock Orange
Botanical Name: Philadephus app. and hybrids
USDA Zone: 4-8
Height/Spread: 10-12 feet
If you are searching for mild, fragrant flowers, then mock orange is a perfect pick for you! The citrusy smell of white flowers floating on green foliage looks outstanding in gardens.
22. Azaleas
Botanical Name: Rhododendron spp.
USDA Zone: 3-9
Height/Spread: 3-5/4-6 feet
Depending on the variety, azalea flowers in early or late spring. Popular white varieties include ‘Northern Hi-Lights,’ ‘Pleasant White,’ ‘Snow,’ and ‘Cascade White.’
23. Dwarf Deutzia
Botanical Name: Deutzia gracilis ‘Nikko’
USDA Zone: 5-8
Height/Spread: 1-2/3-5 feet
You can grow it as a shrub and also as a groundcover. In late spring, this dwarf variety produces a profusion of small, fragrant, droopy white flowers.
24. Spirea
Botanical Name: Spirea x vanhouttei
USDA Zone: 3-8
Height/Spread: 4-8/4-7 feet
Vanhoutte spirea, Snowmound, and Snowstorm are cultivars with white blooms. The plant flowers in April or May and produces clusters of snowy white flowers with blue-green foliage.
25. Incrediball Hydrangea
Botanical Name: Hydrangea arborescens ‘Abetwo‘
USDA Zone: 3-9
Height/Spread: 4-5 feet
This deciduous flowering shrub is perfect for white admirers. It flowers in huge clusters of white blossoms. You can also go with another white variety, ‘Annabelle.’
Check out our article on growing Hydrangea in pots
26. Roses
Botanical Name: Rosa spp.
USDA Zone: 3-12
Height/Spread: 3-4 feet tall
No fragrance can compete with the mind-blowing smell and beauty of roses! The best white varieties ‘Iceberg,’ ‘Polar Express,’ and ‘Winchester Cathedral.’
Here are some of the best types of roses to grow
27. Snows of Kilimanjaro
Botanical Name: Euphorbia leucocephala
USDA Zone: 10-13
Height/Spread: 6-12/4-6 feet
This tropical shrub produces fragrant flowers that resemble a huge snowball. To bring a more prominent snowball-like look, give regular pruning in early spring.
Note: Wear gloves while pruning, as milky sap can cause an allergic reaction.
29. Choisya
Botanical Name: Choisya ‘Aztec Pearl’
USDA Zone: 7b-10
Height/Spread: 4-8 feet
Also known as Mexican Orange Blossom, this evergreen shrub offers glossy dark green leaves and clusters of white blooms with a pink tinge in late spring.
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Small Annual White Flowers
30. Cup Flower
Botanical Name: Nierembergia scoparia ‘Mont Blanc’
USDA Zone: 7-10
Height/Spread: 1 foot/2 feet
These low-maintenance annual flowers from mid-summer to fall and produce white cup-shaped flowers with yellow centers.
32. Datura
Botanical Name: Datura meteloides
USDA Zone: 8a-9b
Height/Spread: 3-4 feet
The beautiful five-petaled, trumpet-shaped, fragrant white flowers of this annual are ideal for evening gardens that open at dusk and stay open till dawn.
Note: All Parts of this plant are poisonous.
33. Heliotrope
Botanical Name: Heliotropium arborescens ‘Album’
USDA Zone: 10-11
Height/Spread: 1-4/1-2 feet
The intensely sweet, almond-like, fragrance-filled white flowers of these bushy annuals pair really well with the contrasting green leaves.
34. Dianthus
Botanical Name: Dianthus ‘White’
USDA Zone: 3-9
Height/Spread: 1-2/1 feet
The beautiful white flowers of Dianthus fill the atmosphere with a spicy scent resembling the hints of cloves and cinnamon.
35. African Marigold Vanilla White
Botanical Name: Tagetes erecta
USDA Zone: 9-11
Height/Spread: A foot tall and wide
The thick layers of ruffled white petals look excellent with carnation-like flower heads and bloom all summer long. Perfect for beds, mixed containers, and borders.
36. Cosmos
Botanical Name: Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Sonata White’
USDA Zone: 2-11
Height/Spread: 1-2/1-2 feet
This award-winning dwarf displays pure white flowers with golden centers from early summer to fall. It is an ideal addition to sunny borders or containers.
37. Sweet Alyssum
Botanical Name: Lobularia maritima
USDA Zone: 7-11
Height/Spread: A foot tall and wide
The delicate carpet of little flowers with a subtle, sweet smell looks lovely in window boxes, containers, hanging baskets, and as a ground cover in rock gardens.
38. Laguna White Lobelia
Botanical Name: Lobelia erinus
USDA Zone: 8-11
Height/Spread: 1-2 feet
The trailing white flowers appear from mid-spring to mid-fall. Its narrow foliage stays green throughout the season.
39. Nemesia
Botanical Name: Nemesia strumosa
USDA Zone: 8-10
Height/Spread: 1 foot
Perfect for ground covers, mixed borders, woodland planting, and a container or hanging basket plant, this true annual forms 1-inch across white flowers.
40. Fan Flower
Botanical Name: Scaevola aemula Bombay ‘White’
USDA Zone: 9-11
Height/Spread: 1/1-2 feet
The white fan-shaped flowers beautifully float on green foliage through early spring, summer, and fall. The cascading growth habit makes them perfect for hanging baskets.
41. Bacopa
Botanical Name: Sutera cordata
USDA Zone: Zone 11
Height/Spread: Under a foot/2-4 feet
This trailing annual fill the containers with little flowers from June through October. The best white varieties are ‘Giant Snowflake,’ ‘Cabana,’ and ‘Olympic Gold.’
42. White Hyacinth
Botanical Name: Triteleia hyacinthina
USDA Zone: 5-10
Height/Spread: 12-24 inches
This variety features white flower heads on erect stems. It is not a true hyacinth but resembles the bloom with papery thin blossoms.
43. White Pim
Botanical Name: Osteospermum ‘White Pim’
USDA Zone: 9-11
Height/Spread: 8-14 inches
‘White Pim’ displays pretty daisy-like blooms with a yellow-purple center and pink-gray striped undersides. The flowers appear from early summer through fall.
44. Zinnia angustifolia ‘Star White’
Botanical Name: Zinnia angustifolia ‘Star White’
USDA Zone: 2-11
Height/Spread: 8-10 inches
These beautiful zinnias offer 2 inches across star-shaped white flowers during spring and summer. It prefers full sunlight.
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45. Climbing Hydrangea
Botanical Name: Hydrangea petolaris
USDA Zone: 4-9
Height/Spread: 20-30/50-80 feet
White blooms of Climbing Hydrangea look like lace caps that shine against dark green foliage. This versatile vine easily clings to brick walls or tree trunks.
46. Sweet Autumn Clematis 
Botanical Name: Clematis terniflora
USDA Zone: 4-8
Height/Spread: 20-35/4-6 feet
Sweet-smelling white blooms emerge in late summer to early fall. The vines are considered invasive in many areas. Hang on a trellis, wall, or fence for landscape use.
Check out our article on the best Clematis varieties
47. Madagascar Jasmine
Botanical Name: Stephanotis floribunda
USDA Zone: 4-8
Height/Spread:15-20/12-16 feet
The beautiful evergreen vine showcases dark green leathery leaves that beautifully hold a cluster of trumpet-shaped, sweet-scented white flowers.
48. Black-Eyed Susan Vine
Botanical Name: Thunbergia alata ‘Little Susie’
USDA Zone: 10-11
Height/Spread: 3-8/5-7 feet
This beautiful vine bears white flowers with a chocolate-purple center all summer long. Like other annual vines, it also dies back after the first frost.
49. White Wedding Passionflower
Botanical Name: Passiflora edulis
USDA Zone: 8-10
Height/Spread: 10-20/25-30 feet
This passionflower vine grows large, pure white flowers with an amazing fragrance. As it attains a good height, make a sturdy structure to allow it to climb.
50. Moonflower Vine
Botanical Name: Ipomoea alba
USDA Zone: 10-11
Height/Spread: 10-15/4-5 feet
This striking vine features large, 6-inch across pure white flowers that beautifully unfurl from cone-shaped buds. It smells great all night long.
51. Bougainvillea White
Botanical Name: Bougainvillea
USDA Zone: 9-11
Height/Spread: 25-35/10-12 feet
Also known as a paper flower, this tropical vine with white flowers is tough as nails. If you have planned to grow it in your garden, give bougainvillea plenty of room to spread freely.
Read the best tips for growing Bougainvillea
52. Scentsation
Botanical Name: Lonicera periclymenum
USDA Zone: 4-9
Height/Spread: 10-12/5-8 feet
This deciduous vine features masses of aromatic, creamy-white to yellow flowers from early to late summer. This hardy climber with an amazing scent climbs well on walls, pergolas, trellis, or fences.
53. Star Jasmine
Botanical Name: Trachelospermum jasminoides
USDA Zone: 8-10
Height/Spread: 15-20/10-15 feet
The versatile star jasmine flowers make a delightful addition to many gardens from spring to summer. Grow it along a fence, trellis, or arbors, or as a ground cover in warm climates.
54. Poet’s Jasmine
Botanical Name: Jasminum grandiflorum
USDA Zone: 8-11
Height/Spread: 10-30/4-6 feet
The heady and rich fragrance of the poet’s jasmine will surely tempt you into growing one. It displays an array of small, white flowers. It is a quick-growing plant.
55. Foamflower
Botanical Name: Tiarella cordifolia
USDA Zone: 4-9
Height/Spread: 12 inches tall and 12-24 inches wide
This variety showcases long, white flowers with slender stamens, creating a frothy look. The dense clusters of small, star-shaped blossoms above a mound of lobed leaves.
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