Thirty-five pieces of flower text art, drawn for this page: a rose, a tulip, a daisy, a sunflower, a lotus, a snowdrop, lavender, cherry blossom and a dandelion clock, then a pot, a vase, a bouquet and a wreath, from one line to 15.
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Pick a flower by height
The sections go by height: 4 pieces of one line, 8 of two to four, 18 of five to nine and 5 of ten or more. Fits a comment box marks the 25 within 8 lines and 30 columns, our rule of thumb and no app's. Search reads hidden words too: sakura finds the cherry blossom, posy the bouquet and dead the wilted flower.
Put your own words on it
FOR YOU, SPRING and THANK YOU are placeholders. The pot label takes 11 characters, the wreath 10 and the card 12, and every character you add comes out of the spaces beside it, or the right-hand wall moves. Flowers for you, one line has no walls and takes any length. Search editable to list all four.
Tips
The ASCII art flower for a bio is Rose, one line: @}--'--,-- is 10 characters, thorn included.
This is strict flower ASCII art, the 95 printable characters only. Filled tulip silhouette is 83 # signs: find and replace makes them @ or an initial.
Wilted flower is the daisy from Flower in a pot some weeks later. Send the pair in that order.
Questions and answers
Does flower text art copy and paste into a message?
Yes, in a monospaced font with spaces kept; the cat page explains both. Squash-proof lists the 8 with no run of spaces. Markdown turns Filled tulip silhouette into headings, and only 3 of 35 pass CommonMark unchanged. Three backticks above and below save all 35.
Is the one-line rose new?
No. The keyboard rose is an emoticon older than this site: Wikipedia's list of emoticons gives four spellings, among them @}->-- and @};-. Ours, @}--'--,--, adds a sepal, a thorn and a leaf. Everything else here is ours. Faces holding flowers are on flower kaomoji.
Which of these flowers have an emoji?
Nine: rose đš, tulip đˇ, sunflower đģ, cherry blossom đ¸, bouquet đ, cactus đĩ, wilted flower đĨ, lotus đĒˇ and hyacinth đĒģ, the last two from Emoji 14.0 and 15.0. Unicode names no character for the daisy, snowdrop, lavender, dandelion or lily of the valley, which leaves text. Try plant emoji and spring emojis.
Bee and rose, one lineThe one-line rose with a striped bee on its way in and three marks for the flight path. 1 line, 24 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Flowers for you, one lineA rose at each end of a line of words. Type anything you like between them. 1 line, 25 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Lotus, one lineA bud between two pairs of open petals, sitting on the waterline. 1 line, 9 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Rose, one lineThe keyboard rose is an emoticon and not our invention. This spelling gives it a bloom, a sepal, a thorn and a leaf, with the bloom on the left. 1 line, 10 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Show all 35 pieces (31 more)
Small, 2 to 4 lines 8
Long-stemmed roseA rose lying on its side, bloom to the right, with two leaves along the stem. 3 lines, 28 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Row of three flowersThree blooms on leafy stems over a line of tildes for soil. Repeat the pattern sideways for a longer bed. 4 lines, 17 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Small flower, three linesA bloom, a pair of leaves and a stem, one to a line. 3 lines, 5 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Small tulip, four linesA cup with two points, a stem and a leaf on each side. 4 lines, 4 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Squash-proof flowerA bloom, two leaves and a stem in the soil, drawn without a single space. 3 lines, 5 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Squash-proof flower potThe daisy from Flower in a pot in a plain pot, with colons where the spaces would be. 4 lines, 5 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Squash-proof tulipA tulip cup on a double stem, three lines and no spaces. 3 lines, 4 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Tiny flower, two linesA bloom on the first line and two leaves on a stem on the second. 2 lines, 3 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Medium, 5 to 9 lines 18
Bouquet of flowersTen blooms over gathered stems, tied with a bow. The stems splay out again below the knot. 9 lines, 15 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Cactus in bloomA cactus with two arms and one flower on top, in case the desert counts. 9 lines, 13 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Cherry blossom branchA branch with six blossoms on short twigs and no leaves yet. 5 lines, 25 wide. Keyboard characters only.
DaisyThin petals in every direction round a centre, on a stem with two leaves. 8 lines, 9 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Dandelion clockA round seed head with a few seeds already leaving on the wind. Clock is one of the names for the seed head. 8 lines, 22 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Flower cardA card with a daisy on the left and a message on the right. Type over THANK YOU with up to 12 characters. 7 lines, 24 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Flower in a potA daisy in a pot with a label on the front. Type over FOR YOU with 11 characters at most and keep it centred with spaces. 8 lines, 15 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Flower seen from aboveSix round petals around a centre, looking straight down into the bloom. 7 lines, 11 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Flower wreathA ring of 18 blooms around a word. Type over SPRING with up to 10 characters and keep it centred with spaces. 7 lines, 18 wide. Keyboard characters only.
From seed to flowerFour stages from left to right: a seed, a seedling, a bud and a flower in bloom, over a line of soil. 6 lines, 32 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Lily of the valleyAn arching stem with three bells hanging from it and a leaf at the base. 7 lines, 16 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Lotus on waterAn open lotus sitting on the water, with a bud in the middle and petals folding out to each side. 5 lines, 17 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Row of tulipsFour tulips over a line of carets for grass. Repeat the pattern sideways for a longer row. 5 lines, 28 wide. Keyboard characters only.
SnowdropOne drooping bell on a curved stem with two leaves at the base. A snowdrop carries a single flower, so this is the whole plant. 7 lines, 10 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Sprig of lavenderThree stalks of lavender gathered at the bottom, with colons and apostrophes for the buds. 9 lines, 12 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Vase of flowersThree long stems crossing inside a vase. 9 lines, 13 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Watering can and flowerA watering can tipping a shower of drops onto a daisy. 7 lines, 27 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Wilted flowerA daisy that has bent over and started dropping petals. For when the plant was your responsibility. 8 lines, 13 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Large, 10 lines and up 5
Filled tulip silhouetteA tulip filled in with # signs: three petals, a stem and two leaves. Put another character in place of every # for a different colour. 15 lines, 11 wide. Keyboard characters only.
HyacinthA spike of packed florets drawn with o and 8, over two pointed leaves. 10 lines, 7 wide. Keyboard characters only.
RoseA rose seen from the front: rings of petals wrapped round the centre, a stem and two leaves. 10 lines, 11 wide. Keyboard characters only.
SunflowerA seed head full of o's with rays all round it, on a stem with two big leaves. 14 lines, 17 wide. Keyboard characters only.
TulipA tulip cup with a notch at the top, a straight stem and two long leaves joined at the base. 10 lines, 9 wide. Keyboard characters only.
How this list was compiled: Every piece was drawn for this page and checked in a monospaced font on 2026-09-19; none is copied from an archive or another site. The set covers a rose, a tulip, a daisy, a sunflower, a hyacinth, a lotus, a snowdrop, lily of the valley, lavender, cherry blossom, a dandelion seed head and a cactus in bloom; flowers in a pot, a vase, a bouquet, a wreath and a row; a flower seen from above, a wilted flower and the four stages from seed to bloom; four pieces with words to type over; four one-liners; and three multi-line pieces drawn without a single space. The one-line rose is this page's own spelling of the keyboard rose, an emoticon that is not this site's invention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons lists four other spellings of it, read on 2026-09-19. Each character was looked up in the Unicode Character Database, version 18.0.0: names and categories in https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt, width classes in https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/EastAsianWidth.txt, the Emoji property in https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-data.txt, all read on 2026-09-19. Keyboard characters only means the 95 printable ASCII characters, U+0020 to U+007E. Squash-proof means no line starts with a space and no two spaces touch. The comment box badge means at most 8 lines and 30 columns: a rule of thumb of this site, not a promise about any app. Licence: own work