What is the birth flower for February?

The traditional birth flower for February is the violet. In English-language birth-flower tradition, violets are associated with modesty, faithfulness, affection, and the quiet return of color during winter. The name usually refers to flowers in the genus Viola, which includes many violet species and cultivated forms.

Violets are small flowering plants found across much of the Northern Hemisphere. Their five-petaled flowers are commonly purple or blue, but some species and cultivars are white, yellow, or multicolored. The sweet violet, Viola odorata, has also been valued for its fragrance and has been used in perfumes, sweets, and traditional remedies.

Birth-flower lists are cultural traditions rather than a scientific system, so some modern charts add primrose to February or substitute it for violet. That variation explains occasional disagreement, but violet remains the standard traditional answer. It is also easy to confuse a violet with a pansy: both belong to Viola, while pansies are generally bred for larger, more prominently marked flowers.