night blooming
Opens in darkness
Night blooming describes plants that flower after dark, typically opening in the evening and closing by morning.
These plants often have pale or white flowers and strong fragrances to attract nocturnal pollinators like moths and bats: night-blooming jasmine, night-blooming cereus.
The term applies both literally to botany and figuratively to things that emerge or flourish in darkness.
- jasmineAromatic climbing plant
- moonflowerNight-blooming white vine
- cereusTall ribbed cactus genus
- evening primroseNight-blooming yellow wildflower
- nocturnalActive during darkness
after dark · moon garden · fragrant · white · pale · luminous · moth · pollination · garden · tropical · unfurling · petals · dusk · twilight · exotic · intoxicating · ephemeral · delicate
- Nightmoon, stars, moonlight, starlight, darkness
- nocturnal activityprowling, stalking, owl calls, cricket chirping, frog calls
- flower traitspetals, nectar, pollen, anthers, stigma
- floweringblossom, bud, budding, flower bud, flowering
- bloom habitsannual, biennial, perennial, reblooming, mid-season
- flowersroses, flower, tulips, daisies, lilies