Birth flower by month
Pick a birth month and get its traditional flower, an alternate and what it stands for: June is the rose, with honeysuckle as alternate, a symbol of love, gratitude and appreciation. Free in your browser.
- Free
- Runs in your browser
- No sign-up
- Your data stays on your device
Run — free
Worked example
- Month
- 6
- Month name
- June
- Flower
- Rose
- Alternate
- Honeysuckle
- Meaning
- Love, gratitude, and appreciation
A birth flower by month tool maps a calendar birth month to the traditional flower that Western florist calendars assign to that month. Enter a month as an integer from one through twelve—or an English month name such as June—and the calculator returns the primary birth flower, a widely recognized alternate flower, a short symbolic meaning, a human-readable month name, and step-by-step resolution lines you can assert in tests or gift-tag copy. Gift planners, stationery designers, genealogy writers, and product catalog builders all need the same deterministic table without scraping florist blogs.
What traditional birth flowers mean by month
Birth flowers are a long-standing florist and stationery convention that pairs each calendar month with one primary bloom and often one alternate bloom, much as birthstones pair months with gems.
The mapping used here follows the common Western and United States retail calendar: January is the carnation with snowdrop as alternate; February the violet with primrose; March the daffodil with jonquil; April the daisy with sweet pea; May lily of the valley with hawthorn; June the rose with honeysuckle; July larkspur with water lily; August gladiolus with poppy; September aster with morning glory; October marigold with cosmos; November chrysanthemum with peony; and December narcissus with holly.
Each entry also carries a short symbolic meaning used on cards and product copy—love and fascination for carnations, faithfulness for violets, rebirth for daffodils, and so on through hope and good fortune for December narcissus. These meanings are cultural glosses, not botanical facts, and regional traditions sometimes swap primary and alternate or name a third flower; this capability publishes one fixed, deterministic table so every client sees the same answer for the same month number.
Teachers and quiz apps care about the hard one-through-twelve boundary: a month of zero, thirteen, or a non-integer must fail rather than wrap modulo twelve, because silent wrap would invent false birth flowers for bad data.
Practical tips, limits, and related searches
Prefer sending the integer month when you control the client; reserve English names for human-facing forms that already display month labels. Do not pass a full ISO date and expect day-level resolution—this tool only needs the birth month and deliberately ignores day and year so February twenty-ninth and non-leap years never appear. Prefer this capability when you already have a month number and only need the florist-table flower names and meaning; if your source is a full birth date string, extract the month first with your date parser.
Round-trip checks are easy: for each month from one to twelve, confirm flower and alternate match the published traditional table and that changing only the month flips both the primary flower and the message month name.
What you can do with it
Gift tags and personal stationery
Print shops and e-card tools look up the birth flower for a recipient month and fill tag lines with primary flower, alternate, and meaning without maintaining a local table.
Product catalogs and subscription boxes
Floral subscription and merch pipelines map each customer birth month to SKU-friendly flower names for personalized monthly drops and marketing emails.
FAQ
What is a birth flower by month?
It is the traditional florist mapping of each calendar month (1–12) to a primary flower and often an alternate flower, with a short symbolic meaning used on cards and gifts.
What happens if the month is outside 1 to 12?
Months below 1 or above 12 are rejected so bad data never invents a non-existent birth flower.
Can I send the month name instead of a number?
Yes. Full and short English names such as June, jun, September, and sept are accepted and normalized to month numbers 1–12.
Does this use my local date or the current month?
No. It only uses the month you send. There is no Date(), no network, and no default to “today.”
Is the birth flower by month tool free?
The browser tool is free and runs locally.
Related tools
For developers — API access
Everything on this page is available programmatically. This section is for teams who want to wire it into their own systems; everyone else can just use the tool above.
API endpoint
Prefer to automate it? One authenticated POST creates the task; the result comes back by webhook or a signed link. The same capability also runs here on the web, by email and from Telegram — and soon from our app too.
Call it from your stack
curl -X POST https://api.kit.forhosting.com/date/birth-flower \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $KIT_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"month":6}'const res = await fetch("https://api.kit.forhosting.com/date/birth-flower", {
method: "POST",
headers: {
"Authorization": `Bearer ${process.env.KIT_KEY}`,
"Content-Type": "application/json"
},
body: JSON.stringify({
"month": 6
})
});
const { task_id } = await res.json();import os, requests
res = requests.post(
"https://api.kit.forhosting.com/date/birth-flower",
headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['KIT_KEY']}"},
json={
"month": 6
},
)
task_id = res.json()["task_id"]<?php
$res = file_get_contents("https://api.kit.forhosting.com/date/birth-flower", false, stream_context_create([
"http" => [
"method" => "POST",
"header" => "Authorization: Bearer " . getenv("KIT_KEY") . "\r\nContent-Type: application/json",
"content" => '{"month":6}',
],
]));
$task = json_decode($res, true);body := bytes.NewBufferString(`{"month":6}`)
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://api.kit.forhosting.com/date/birth-flower", body)
req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("KIT_KEY"))
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)Example request
{
"month": 6
}Example response
{
"task_id": "tsk_a1b2c3d4e5f6a1b2c3d4e5f6",
"type": "date.birth_flower",
"status": "queued",
"_links": {
"result": "/tasks/tsk_…/result"
}
}The API is asynchronous: the call returns a task_id immediately and the result arrives by webhook. Polling is capped at 1 req/s per task.
Pricing
Published price — no tokens, no invented credits. A failed task is never charged.
Limits
month_min | 1 |
month_max | 12 |
Errors
| HTTP | Code | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
401 | unauthorized | Missing or invalid API key. |
402 | insufficient_balance | Your balance doesn't cover the task price. |
404 | unknown_type | That task type doesn't exist. |
429 | rate_limited | Too many requests. Use the webhook instead of polling. |
Technical notes
Months outside the range one to twelve are rejected with a clear invalid_input error so bad form data never invents a thirteenth flower.
How to call the API and what comes back
Accept either an integer from one to twelve inclusive or an English month name in full or short form—January and jan both resolve to one, September and sept both to nine. Numeric strings that parse as whole integers in range are accepted; floating values such as six point five, empty strings, objects, and unknown names are rejected. Send a JSON body with one required field: month (aliases m, birth_month, and month_number). Failed validation—missing month, non-integer numbers, names that are not English month labels, or any value outside one through twelve—returns invalid_input and is never charged. Pricing is a flat $0.002 per successful request with unit item and zero marginal unit price.
Practical tips, limits, and related searches
When teaching or writing copy, pair examples across the year: month six yields Rose with Honeysuckle alternate and a love-and-gratitude meaning; month one yields Carnation and Snowdrop; month twelve yields Narcissus and Holly; and month thirteen or zero demonstrates the hard invalid_input path with a message that names the one-to-twelve range. This landing targets people searching for birth flower by month, traditional birth flower calendar, or which flower for a birth month online; it is not a botanical identifier from photos, not a full floriography encyclopedia, and not a birthstone calculator. Failed tasks that return invalid_input do not consume prepaid balance, which keeps exploratory scripts cheap when learners deliberately send out-of-range months.
Integration use cases
Quizzes, genealogy notes, and content templates
Family-history writers and quiz apps need deterministic month-to-flower answers and deliberate invalid_input cases for months outside one through twelve.