“What plants have white fluffy flowers? You can spot them anywhere in spring. They may be blossoms of a tree (such as Pussy Willow), a weed (like Hare’s Tail), a shrub (such as Partridge berry) or even a dry thorn plant like Glandular Globe-Thistle. you may also find white fluffy flowers that look like cotton such as Hare’s-tail cottongrass.
Keep reading to find the 37 White Fluffy Flowers’ names with their images and get familiar with one of the best plant identification tools to identify your intended plant. I love White fluffy flowers, I find them very stunning plants that are as white as a bride in the landscapes. I’m a plant pathologist who works as a horticultural advisor and plant identification is one of my interests.
In the following, I will help you to identify fluffy white flowers by their image and then teach you how to work with the “House plant identifier”. It is a reviewed free online tool that is well to identify indoor and outdoor plants. If you are ready, let’s dive into it.
In this part, I will provide you with pictures of 37 plants with white fluffy flowers. You can scroll through images and find your favourite flower among them, so you can easily identify it. To make it easy for you, I categorized them into 5 groups including:
A: white fluffy flowers that look like cotton
B: Big white fluffy flowers
C: Tree with white fluffy flowers
D: Fluffy white flower dry thorny plants
E: Herbal or shrub fluffy white flowers
If you are looking for a specific plant, you can search for it in one of the above groups easily. So, keep reading.
In the following, you will spot plants whose flowers are white and fluffy like cotton. Keep reading to show you the images of 5 of white of them.
Bog cotton: White Fulffy Flowers that look like cotton
Scientific Name: Eriophorum angustifolium
Hare’s-tail cottongrass: White Fulffy Flowers that look like cotton
Scientific Name: Eriophorum vaginatum
Dandelion: White Fulffy Flowers that look like cotton
Scientific name: Taraxacum officinale
Meadow Goat’s Beard: White Fulffy Flowers that look like cotton
Scientific name: Tragopogon Pratensis
Other common names: Meadow Salsify, Noonflower, and Jack-Go-To-Bed-At-Noon
Old Man Cactus: White Fulffy Flowers that look like cotton
Scientific name: Cephalocereus senilis
They are very stunning big fluffy white flowers that you may see in a Bridal Bouquet. Keep reading and enjoy the images of 3 of them.
Spider chrysanthemum with big white fluffy flowers
Scientific name: Chrysanthemum x morifolium (or C. morifolium)
White Celosia (Cockscomb) with big white fluffy flowers
Scientific Name: Celosia spicata
Sweet Sultan with big white fluffy flowers
Scientific Name: Centaurea moschata
What kind of tree has white fluffy flowers? Keep reading to respond to this question in the following. These beautiful trees have white blossoms like a bride. In this part, you will see the images of 12 of them. some of them may be trees with pink and white fluffy flowers.
Pussy Willow
Scientific name: Salix discolor
Grey willow
Scientific name: Salix cinerea
Babylon weeping willow
Scientific name: Salix babylonica
Guajillo acacia
Scientific name: Acacia berlandieri
Prairie Acacia
Scientific name: Acacia angustissima
White Powder Puff big
Scientific name: Calliandra haematocephylla alba
Kalkora Mimosa
Scientific name: Albizia kalkora
Alba’ mimosa tree
Scientific name: Albizia julibrissin
Button Bush
Scientific name: Cephalanthus occidentalis
Common Myrtle
Scientific Name: Myrtus communis
Laurel Cherry
Scientific Name: Prunus laurocerasus
Snow in summer tree
Scientific Name: Melaleuca linariifolia
Most people think dry thorns are ugly, in the following you will see a dry thorny plant with fluffy flowers. very beautiful.
Glandular Globe-Thistle
scientific name: Echinops sphaerocephalus
In this part, you will spot 16 herbal or shrub plants with fluffy white flowers including tall weeds with white fluffy flowers. Some of them are wild plants and others can plant in indoor out outdoor spaces.
Partridge berry
Scientific name: Mitchella repens
Pussytoes
Scientific Name: Antennaria plantaginifolia
Fountain Grasses
Scientific name: Pennisetum sp.
White Giant (Ornamental Onion)
Scientific name: Allium stipitatum
This plant has a cluster of small white flowers.
False Goatsbeard (False Spirea)
Scientific name: Astilbe sp.
Scientific name: Acalypha hispida alba
Floss flower
Scientific name: Ageratum sp.
It’s one of the stunning small white flower plants.
New Jersey Tea
Scientific Name: Ceanothus americanus
Ninebark
Scientific Name: Physocarpus opulifolius
Summersweet
Scientific Name: Clethra alnifolia
Virginia Sweetspire
Scientific Name: Itea virginica
Blazing Star (Gay Feather)
Scientific Name: Liatris sp.
Scientific Name: Liatris sp.
White Feather
Scientific Name: Cortaderia selloana
It is one of the best pet-friendly outdoor plants.
Hare’s Tail
Scientific Name: Lagurus ovatus
Birchleaf Spirea
Scientific Name: Spiraea betulifolia
American Virgin’s Bower
Scientific Name: Clematis virginiana
Mountain witch alder
Scientific Name: Fothergilla flower
While walking in spring you see a lot of wonderful flowering plants. You may grab your cell phone and try to search for similar plants to find its name. It will be a time-consuming way.
In the following, I want to show you the easiest way to seek the white fluffy flower names: using plant identification tools. One of the best ones is the “House plant identifier”.
It is a free online tool that can identify wild plants, flowers, trees, ornamentals and indoor plants with high accuracy.
Working with the “House plant identifier” is very easy. You should an online picture or upload it from your gallery and click on the start button. it only takes 2 seconds to identify your favourite plant with 91 % accuracy.
This online tool can also detect plant disease. so, I strongly recommend experiencing it.
In this article, we tried to help you to identify white fluffy flowers. You found out that they may be blossoms of a tree, shrub, weed, or even a dry thorn plant. Some of them were tall and others were ball-shaped flowers. Did you find your intent plant among them? do you know other fluffy white plants that we didn’t mention above? Can you add new plants to our list?
We also told you about one of the best free online plant identification tools: the ” House plant identifier”. Have you ever experienced it? it’s our pleasure if you share your experience and d knowledge with our readers below this page.
Hi, I’m Elaheh. My Academic major is plant protection, and houseplants are my expertise. As a houseplant lover, my house is full of indoor plants and it is my passion to take care of them. Hence, I’m here to share my knowledge and experience about growing healthy houseplants. I am also a plant protection advisor, so feel free to ask me any questions you may have.