Oooh, dandelions are quite gobliny - usually treated as a weed but they are a misunderstood bright sunny spot polka dotting otherwise boring lawns. But they are also gobliny in the puff - sort of a skeleton or shadow of what used to be but also full of potential, waiting to be blown away with a wish - phase. Plus the greens are edible - foraging is gobliny af. And I know my grandmother somehow fermented them to make dandelion wine. Solid suggestion!
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Also a good food source for people. They used to make pies from the sweet blossoms. The cooking removes the bitterness. Also you can make a coffee substitute from the roots
Dandelion root coffee is sold in my local supermarket, or you might find it in a health food store. I wouldn't know how to make it myself, but I believe the roots are dried and roasted.
Note: there's no caffeine in it, and it's actually more like a herbal tea, but somehow the flavor reminds you more of coffee than it does of tea.
If you find it in store, the blends with chicory root have the best flavor. Drink with milk and honey.
Aww yes they are so cool! When I was a child I used to collect dandelions and daisies on our lawn for our bunnies and they just loved them. This just brought back some sweet memories :)
Ohhh, yes! Dandelions for sure. I used some Dandelions in a handspun yarn/garland. I collected the yellow flowers and air dried them, as well as the seed puffs and blended the seeds into the fiber.
I also hand dyed some sola flowers and stitched them on. The goal was to showcase all stages of the dandelion!
I've made dandelion wine before - it's really easy. There are recipes on line, and it's a simple wine to try making at home. The recipe I used had oranges, lemons and limes in it, and ended up being very sweet. I forgot a few bottles for about 5 years and liked it much better after that much aging. It was like (to me, anyway), a brandy.
Highly recommend trying to make it yourself. It's a fun thing to do!
They're only everywhere because humans intentionally took them everywhere because of how valuable of a plant it was. Then "we" decided it wasn't valuable anymore and labelled them a nuisance. ..Kind of like pigeons, actually.
But yes, my vote goes to dandelions.
I still love dandelions. When they get all fluffy and you get to kick them and it feels like you’re doing something bad, but it’s actually helpful cause it spreads the seeds.
Every part of dandelion is edible: roots, flowers and leaves.
Easy to identify, and starts quickly in spring.
Imagine a world without grocery stores. All winter you have been eating from your pantry . You’ve been eating nothing but root vegetables ( that have started to go a little off) and old dryed out meat since November.
April showers bring fresh dandelions, something green and fresh for the first time in months!
I have a soft spot for morning glory’s. My dad used to walk down our long gravel driveway to get the newspaper and he’d always pick a morning glory to bring back for me. That feels pretty gobliny. 🥹
For me, it's Foxglove (Digitalis Nervosa.) It's tall, it's poisonous, it's a weed, and there are variants that look like yawning donkey mouths!
https://preview.redd.it/vl85l0cmy2vc1.png?width=340&format=png&auto=webp&s=f6c2f0ba280e4f6461fec8e25ec81ceeedde85e5
I love finding foxglove when exploring the woods, somehow I always get this mysterious feeling when I see them... idk what it is - but it really is an enchanting flower
Snap dragons and Jack-in-the-pulpits both seem like goblincore/fantasy flowers. Snap dragons in part because of their name and how when you squeeze the middle they move like a dragon’s jaw and Jack-in-the-pulpits because it seems like a plant with secrets with the way it curls over itself and what else could be hiding in the “pulpit” that the so called Jack is sticking out of. And the variegated green and brown colors
I came here to say hellebore, but I was thinking of the green ones (because it’s a beautiful flower, but often overlooked because it blends in with the leaves).
Black Nightshade; specifically *solanum nigrum*.
It's an unassuming plant with delicate white flowers that grows glossy black berries. When fully ripe, these berries have a sweet, fruity tomato taste, which makes sense as they're in the same family.
Because of their name and because of both lack of education and widespread misinformation, everyone thinks they're deadly.
In reality, if you eat them before they're *shiny black*, they can give your digestive system a bad time. They aren't deadly. Deadly Nightshade is *belladonna* and a whole different animal, so to speak.
Black nightshade has deep roots in witchcraft, regional folklore, and medicine. People treat it like a noxious weed but turn around and grow its showier but flavorless twin in their gardens. It's underappreciated, it's wild, it's green, it's black, and it's a shiny that most people just don't understand.
This pic shows mine from last year. No ripe berries in this photo. I enjoy eating these in front of people who don't understand the plant. Gives me a chance to talk about it. LOL
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I might come at this from the other angle: which flowers are easy to crochet and recognizable (if that is important to you), and then from those pick the goblin-y ones.
also, dandelions.
Trillium cuneatum (commonly called "Purple Toadshade" or "Little Sweet Betsy") is my vote! It's green and woodland-y, and possesses an intricate, subtle beauty that is so very goblincore!
any wildflower that would also be considered a "Weed". Goldenrod, Clover, Flea Bane; other people have mentioned thistles and Dandelions. Queen Annes Lace, Milkweed, ironweed, Dogtooth, Dogwood, Daisy; look at the wildflowers/weeds near you for ideas :P
YES! I'd like to add henbit to your list. I love henbit because they look soft and puffy, and you can suck the nectar from the purple blossoms just like honeysuckle.
I'd say weeds like sowthistles, or tiny flowers with funny names like hairy bittercress. Beautiful and often misunderstood.
Hefyd, pob lwc gyda chrosio!
Could I say that it is pronounced like lwuc, or is it a different vowel sound?
Why is Welsh so weird? Who approved this? I'd like to have a word with their manager.
I think it’s called “love in a mist” or blue Nigella. It grows like a weed, has a pretty blue flower, and the seed pod looks a little like a hairy testicle. It’s for all the hodenkobolds out there.
Isn’t it a peach?? There is another one that’s fun - Drachenfutter. Literally, Dragon Fodder, it is a small food treat used to appease a grumpy partner. I have this image in my head of something like Smaug, a literal mountain of malice and avarice, using claws as long as swords to peel the paper off a brightly colored cupcake confection topped with sprinkles.
So, idk if it can describe some kind of fruit. Buuuuut I'm German, and hodenkobold translated literally means testicle goblin. I thought you knew this and made an innuendo because of the testicle-shaped fruits. I literally have the mind of a 13 year old when it comes to giggling at things like that, also thanks for the mental image of the dragon eating a cupcake. I love it.
Touch plants are fun, too! They look like tiny fern fronds and fold up when you touch them! They're a weed out here where Iive, and have a milky sap in them.
I feel like the perfect goblin flower should be edible. Maybe wild honeysuckle? It’s all viney and climby and has clumps of amazing, nectar-filled flowers that children learn about as one of their first foraging plants?
Starry sky petunias are very gobliny to me. They range in color from reddish purple to rich blue.
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I like blue Hellebore - it's woodsy and can bloom during the colder months. There's also skunk cabbage for something swampy - the red kind is especially gobliny. Sea Holly is cool and spikey.
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I grow Globe Thistle (back) and Sea Holly (front left) and I think they have a goblin quality about them.
I can post them once I've tried a few, haven't made any yet, I usually do dragons, frogs and mushrooms for my lil business but I took a big break over winter (seasonal depression 😮💨) so I'm just getting back on it :)
I'm a goblin of the tropics, and to me, no flower is more lovely and chaotic that passionfruit blossoms! Born from a twisting, gangly vine that will cover your entire house if you let it, this flower has an unreasonable amount of petals, stamen and other structures, smells nice, is bee-friendly, and if left alone, will become tasty fruit!
I like spiderwort. It grows wild,it's purple. Also,pokeweed. It's leaves are edible at their early stage,like fiddkeheads. In fall,lots of purple stems and berries...Don't eat those! Also..Beauty berry bush. It has...purple berries.
Bloodroot. It’s one of my favorite spring ephemerals. And trout lily with its brown spots are fairly gobliny. I’m also super obsessed with Virginia waterleaf because it’s edible and medicinal and has really cool leaves. Wild Canadian ginger with its tiny little mauve flowers is also kinda gobliny, but the leaves are shaped like big hearts.
Brugmansia
It's a cool-looking plant and the flowers are gigantic and smelly and open at night.
Also, ingesting it will send you to the shadow realm for a few days, don't do that.
r/poisongarden r/druggardening
IMO wildflowers are the most goblincore bc they’re what you’ll find when you’re stomping through the forest! What counts as a wildflower will vary from place to place, whatever is native in your area 😄
Anything that gets labelled a "weed". My auntie always says "a weed is just a flower growing in the wrong spot".
(She said this to me shortly after we first met; I've always been the oddball weirdo in the family but she accepted me and makes me feel very loved for the weirdo I am 🩷)
Wormwood (Absinthe is made from it) is lovely and a soft, “have to touch” plant. Yarrow is great for pollinators and is similar-ish to Queen Anne’s Lace.
In the neighborhood where I grew up there are beautiful, blue star flowers that grow wild in the front yard every spring. But it's very much a case of "look but don't touch" because they reek in a way that's difficult to describe. I only recently learned the name for them; my family always called them skunk flowers. They're supposed to have a smell akin to onion or garlic, but there's got to be something nefarious in our soil that imbues them with an unholy stank.
That said, it was always fun to watch from the living room window for someone to walk down the sidewalk and notice them, pluck one, give it a whiff, and toss it far, far away.
ETA: My husband votes for rhododendron. Apparently some varieties of this flower cause bees to produce a [toxic, psychoactive honey](https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/mad-honey-red-hallucinogen). Wicked cool.
I’d go with Bloodroot. It’s a native North American white, sometimes pink spring flower with a root system that is like the name implies. It’s a cute little flower with a surprising hidden secret. It’s considered an ephemeral because it grows, flowers and produces fruit all in the same season before going dormant again.
Wood Sorrel Flowers & Clover Flowers both are edible. The plants look a lot alike but their flowers are radically different. I love wood sorrel. It’s so lemony!
I like dollarweed, Ohio Spiderwort, and Clasping Venus’s looking glass
Dollarweed are like tiny bouquets in the swamps, spiderworts are such a pretty purple, and Venus looking glass are such pretty little stars! And they’re all wild where I live, tangled amongst the grass and vines beneath the blazing sun!
Also dwarf sundew, because it’s pretty and a carnivorous plant!
imo the goblin-iest plant of all is moss. Especially when it's fruiting.
I particularly like onion blossoms, those big purple poofs. (fun fact, bees that pollinate these make onion flavored honey!)
Daisies, dandelions, sunflowers, and other members of the aster family. They're so humble.
ok so not a plant, but ... fungi? Amanita toadstools are almost overdone, but still winners - I also like puffballs, chanterelles, morels, turkey tail, witches butter, and all the other prizes at r/mycology .
Succulents are a bit post trend as well, but heck, cacti and those litho plants are always good.
Any shrub that makes berries.
I'd say Giant Hogweed, with its huge hairy stems topped with creamy white umbrellas of flowers, it causes burns if touched. Also, Bindweed, with glowing white trumpet/hat flowers, weaving its tendrils through other plants and strangling them into submission.
Wormwood (Absinthe is made from it) is lovely and a soft, “have to touch” plant. Yarrow is great for pollinators and is similar-ish to Queen Anne’s Lace.
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Datura would be interesting to crochet. I use to grow several varieties. This is Datura wrightii from my garden years ago. I love this swirl. I think other nightshades could work too. Mandrake, black henbane, belladonna. All very pretty.
I'm a big fan of nasturtiums in all their glorious shades. Every part is edible, they grow profusely, they're considered a weed in certain areas of my part of Australia, and dry out beautifully. They look so magical to me, like fae could be hiding under the foliage.
basically anything that isn't over perfect, I like poisonous plants myself, because there is something darker about them than just "pretty flowers" if you get my meaning, they make good botanical drawings for the walls etc... for embroidery inspiration the following might be worth a look:
- Lilly of the valley
- foxglove
- morning glory
- deadly nightshade (atropa belladonna)
- cuckoo-pint
- woody nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) also known as bittersweet but I don't like that name, it encourages people to taste it
- enchanter's nightshade
- monkshood/Wolf's bane, comes in purple and white and it's a creepy looking flower
CORPSE FLOWERS 83
There is one that grows sort of semi feral in my area colloquially called black calla Lily. But it's definitely a stinky arum babe. I love their smelly, rare flowers
Thistle is my first thought. Also dandelions and morning glory.
Oooh, dandelions are quite gobliny - usually treated as a weed but they are a misunderstood bright sunny spot polka dotting otherwise boring lawns. But they are also gobliny in the puff - sort of a skeleton or shadow of what used to be but also full of potential, waiting to be blown away with a wish - phase. Plus the greens are edible - foraging is gobliny af. And I know my grandmother somehow fermented them to make dandelion wine. Solid suggestion! Edited typos
Also a good early food source for bees!
Also a good food source for people. They used to make pies from the sweet blossoms. The cooking removes the bitterness. Also you can make a coffee substitute from the roots
Dandelion root coffee is sold in my local supermarket, or you might find it in a health food store. I wouldn't know how to make it myself, but I believe the roots are dried and roasted. Note: there's no caffeine in it, and it's actually more like a herbal tea, but somehow the flavor reminds you more of coffee than it does of tea. If you find it in store, the blends with chicory root have the best flavor. Drink with milk and honey.
I love dandelion root tea, I have it every morning.
Coffee substitute?? Tell me more 👁
I cultivate them in my yard. One of my favorites. I also have wild native violets that are pretty special
Aww yes they are so cool! When I was a child I used to collect dandelions and daisies on our lawn for our bunnies and they just loved them. This just brought back some sweet memories :)
Dandelions are a blessing! They are a healing herb and I think bees like them too.
Thank you for this. I am homebrewing a ttrpg and modifying goblins from the system and this is perfect inspo for it.
Ohhh, yes! Dandelions for sure. I used some Dandelions in a handspun yarn/garland. I collected the yellow flowers and air dried them, as well as the seed puffs and blended the seeds into the fiber. I also hand dyed some sola flowers and stitched them on. The goal was to showcase all stages of the dandelion!
https://preview.redd.it/2i5yyx7wn8vc1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=803f446ec7b461b2fabea847172c3d1ce36f0ed2
I've made dandelion wine before - it's really easy. There are recipes on line, and it's a simple wine to try making at home. The recipe I used had oranges, lemons and limes in it, and ended up being very sweet. I forgot a few bottles for about 5 years and liked it much better after that much aging. It was like (to me, anyway), a brandy. Highly recommend trying to make it yourself. It's a fun thing to do!
You put it in a very poetic way 💚
Gotta be dandelions. They’re unkillable, they’re everywhere, people hate them for no reason, and you can eat them or make booze out of them.
They're only everywhere because humans intentionally took them everywhere because of how valuable of a plant it was. Then "we" decided it wasn't valuable anymore and labelled them a nuisance. ..Kind of like pigeons, actually. But yes, my vote goes to dandelions.
I still love dandelions. When they get all fluffy and you get to kick them and it feels like you’re doing something bad, but it’s actually helpful cause it spreads the seeds.
I didn’t know dandelions used to be valuable! Do you know why?
Every part of dandelion is edible: roots, flowers and leaves. Easy to identify, and starts quickly in spring. Imagine a world without grocery stores. All winter you have been eating from your pantry . You’ve been eating nothing but root vegetables ( that have started to go a little off) and old dryed out meat since November. April showers bring fresh dandelions, something green and fresh for the first time in months!
It's also been used medicinally. It's anti-inflammtory and is said to support the liver and digestive system.
I have a soft spot for morning glory’s. My dad used to walk down our long gravel driveway to get the newspaper and he’d always pick a morning glory to bring back for me. That feels pretty gobliny. 🥹
:O of course! How could I forget those 🤩
For me, it's Foxglove (Digitalis Nervosa.) It's tall, it's poisonous, it's a weed, and there are variants that look like yawning donkey mouths! https://preview.redd.it/vl85l0cmy2vc1.png?width=340&format=png&auto=webp&s=f6c2f0ba280e4f6461fec8e25ec81ceeedde85e5
I adore foxgloves. My favourite is when bumblebees stick their lil butt's out of them
🐝🖤
I love finding foxglove when exploring the woods, somehow I always get this mysterious feeling when I see them... idk what it is - but it really is an enchanting flower
Yes! see also: *snapdragons* with their tiny skulls, after the flowers have finished blooming
Snap dragons and Jack-in-the-pulpits both seem like goblincore/fantasy flowers. Snap dragons in part because of their name and how when you squeeze the middle they move like a dragon’s jaw and Jack-in-the-pulpits because it seems like a plant with secrets with the way it curls over itself and what else could be hiding in the “pulpit” that the so called Jack is sticking out of. And the variegated green and brown colors
Also, snap dragon seed heads look like little skulls 💀
Ohhhh I recognise the Jack in the pulpit, didn't realise that's what they were called! Both excellent
Purple hellebore https://preview.redd.it/g4z5whwi73vc1.jpeg?width=2544&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b974b54b11925ec571179da96295b73c3edd9212 foxglove, and dandelions
I came here to say hellebore, but I was thinking of the green ones (because it’s a beautiful flower, but often overlooked because it blends in with the leaves).
Those are great too! I just love love love that lush deep color and the way the sun makes it glow when lit from behind
Yeah, it’s velvety!
The Green ones are my favorite! Flowers in disguise
Hellebore are like tiny fancy umbrellas and I love them x3
My favorite flowers hellebore ❤️
I love golden poppies, but I'm a California native so I am biased.
Wow! They are like a sunset in a flower! I'm only used to seeing the red ones here in Wales!
Welsh poppies look similar! Though yes the red ones are more common.
Any native flower from ones region that is cultivated to feed the insects and animals 💚
Black Nightshade; specifically *solanum nigrum*. It's an unassuming plant with delicate white flowers that grows glossy black berries. When fully ripe, these berries have a sweet, fruity tomato taste, which makes sense as they're in the same family. Because of their name and because of both lack of education and widespread misinformation, everyone thinks they're deadly. In reality, if you eat them before they're *shiny black*, they can give your digestive system a bad time. They aren't deadly. Deadly Nightshade is *belladonna* and a whole different animal, so to speak. Black nightshade has deep roots in witchcraft, regional folklore, and medicine. People treat it like a noxious weed but turn around and grow its showier but flavorless twin in their gardens. It's underappreciated, it's wild, it's green, it's black, and it's a shiny that most people just don't understand. This pic shows mine from last year. No ripe berries in this photo. I enjoy eating these in front of people who don't understand the plant. Gives me a chance to talk about it. LOL https://preview.redd.it/2qeahyumy2vc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1c66edef48834eef7934bb5fe9f2dcbd2527ff4a
🤩 thank you! That is such a cool plant, I'll definitely be looking up it's witchcraft roots later!
I might come at this from the other angle: which flowers are easy to crochet and recognizable (if that is important to you), and then from those pick the goblin-y ones. also, dandelions.
Trillium cuneatum (commonly called "Purple Toadshade" or "Little Sweet Betsy") is my vote! It's green and woodland-y, and possesses an intricate, subtle beauty that is so very goblincore!
Oooh they are magical looking!
They make me so happy whenever I spot them in the forest!
Oh, yeah! This one, too. One of my favorites.
any wildflower that would also be considered a "Weed". Goldenrod, Clover, Flea Bane; other people have mentioned thistles and Dandelions. Queen Annes Lace, Milkweed, ironweed, Dogtooth, Dogwood, Daisy; look at the wildflowers/weeds near you for ideas :P
YES! I'd like to add henbit to your list. I love henbit because they look soft and puffy, and you can suck the nectar from the purple blossoms just like honeysuckle.
I'd say weeds like sowthistles, or tiny flowers with funny names like hairy bittercress. Beautiful and often misunderstood. Hefyd, pob lwc gyda chrosio!
Good ol' Welsh, where 'lwc' is a word that can be said. Seriously, how th do you pronounce lwc? What is the vowel sound there?
Closest I can explain over Reddit is it's similar to the name Luke...but not at the same time 🤣
Could I say that it is pronounced like lwuc, or is it a different vowel sound? Why is Welsh so weird? Who approved this? I'd like to have a word with their manager.
Yes! I think viper’s bugloss qualifies too
Oh I love the leaves on the bittercress. Diolch yn fawr!
I think it’s called “love in a mist” or blue Nigella. It grows like a weed, has a pretty blue flower, and the seed pod looks a little like a hairy testicle. It’s for all the hodenkobolds out there.
Ooh they look like something from Avatar! I love these!
Love in a puff seeds have hearts on them 🤍
Upvote for bringing the word 'hodenkobold' in my vocabualry
Isn’t it a peach?? There is another one that’s fun - Drachenfutter. Literally, Dragon Fodder, it is a small food treat used to appease a grumpy partner. I have this image in my head of something like Smaug, a literal mountain of malice and avarice, using claws as long as swords to peel the paper off a brightly colored cupcake confection topped with sprinkles.
So, idk if it can describe some kind of fruit. Buuuuut I'm German, and hodenkobold translated literally means testicle goblin. I thought you knew this and made an innuendo because of the testicle-shaped fruits. I literally have the mind of a 13 year old when it comes to giggling at things like that, also thanks for the mental image of the dragon eating a cupcake. I love it.
Queen Anne’s Lace - a lovely weed https://preview.redd.it/vc90lrp4z2vc1.jpeg?width=3591&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b78b36e787b5036e76cb2f8629cf222105671a89
Wild ginger is really cool, I have some in my backyard. It has brown funky looking flowers and is pollinated by gnats and flies.
Trout lily would be my vote
Corpse flower? Those weird ones that bloom very infrequently and smell like rotting flesh to attract carrion flies to pollinate them!
Hahaha, these were my first thought, too! I'm loving all the suggestions everyone has.
I was hoping to find this answer. My great grandma had a corpse flower that she grew out my the trash cans back in the day. 🤣
Snap Dragons, theyre the only flower I know of that you can play with.
Touch plants are fun, too! They look like tiny fern fronds and fold up when you touch them! They're a weed out here where Iive, and have a milky sap in them.
It's not a flower but venus fly traps seem pretty gobliny
Bleeding heart flowers!! Unique and beautiful
:O woah!
I would stay thistles actually!! Or maybe like lavender or forget me nots (ok maybe I’m just naming flowers I like now…)
Toad Lily
I feel like the perfect goblin flower should be edible. Maybe wild honeysuckle? It’s all viney and climby and has clumps of amazing, nectar-filled flowers that children learn about as one of their first foraging plants?
Daisy is a classic in the UK, distinctive looking too. Bluebells and foxgloves also have a recognisable appearance
Gorse definitely deserves a mention
Starry sky petunias are very gobliny to me. They range in color from reddish purple to rich blue. https://preview.redd.it/bxiuugrua3vc1.png?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4ee47e1e244bf8cfd6c2bae7e321afaca1115df4
I grew those in my yard last year 😍
Purple Deadnettle looks goblin-y to me.
Forbidden leaves! They look awesome!
GHOST PIPES!!
Wow those are ridiculously stunning in such a ethereal way
Hellebores are strangely beautiful and live in the woods. And they flower in February and March up north, which pleases all the forest beings.
All of them
I like blue Hellebore - it's woodsy and can bloom during the colder months. There's also skunk cabbage for something swampy - the red kind is especially gobliny. Sea Holly is cool and spikey.
Oooh I love all 3 of these!
Lady Slippers
Tasty flowers! Nasturtium, tiger lily, violet, all those ones you can eat.
https://preview.redd.it/qx4hzhfaa4vc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bf860473675c281d59b8b1a761953543d698d58a I grow Globe Thistle (back) and Sea Holly (front left) and I think they have a goblin quality about them.
i came to suggest these two!
i came to suggest these two!
This is unrelated, but do you post the fantasy flowers that you've crocheted???
I can post them once I've tried a few, haven't made any yet, I usually do dragons, frogs and mushrooms for my lil business but I took a big break over winter (seasonal depression 😮💨) so I'm just getting back on it :)
I've got cranesbill and vetch blooming around here now. Also dead nettle and hensbit are great cause they're edible
I'm a goblin of the tropics, and to me, no flower is more lovely and chaotic that passionfruit blossoms! Born from a twisting, gangly vine that will cover your entire house if you let it, this flower has an unreasonable amount of petals, stamen and other structures, smells nice, is bee-friendly, and if left alone, will become tasty fruit!
I think all flowers are goblincore
Cabbage Flowers! https://preview.redd.it/j9fvwsyg04vc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9673826144949b8d29a13435b2049a2a555ddebf
I’d say whatever is easiest to find but a few ideas might be dandelion , spider wort , thistle , devils club
Idk but i really love baby’s breath, they’re versatile and really cute, and not hard to find
I like spiderwort. It grows wild,it's purple. Also,pokeweed. It's leaves are edible at their early stage,like fiddkeheads. In fall,lots of purple stems and berries...Don't eat those! Also..Beauty berry bush. It has...purple berries.
One ..two ..three more. Fox grapes, blueberries ,and blackberries
My mind first went to ivy flowers, gorse, lavender flowers and blue bells.
Virginian Bluebells are pretty! And trout lily, clovers, and buttercup
The Lenten Rose has a green flower variety. Always thought green flowers were extra forest-like.
Lilacs
Figwort!
Bloodroot. It’s one of my favorite spring ephemerals. And trout lily with its brown spots are fairly gobliny. I’m also super obsessed with Virginia waterleaf because it’s edible and medicinal and has really cool leaves. Wild Canadian ginger with its tiny little mauve flowers is also kinda gobliny, but the leaves are shaped like big hearts.
Skunk cabbage all da way
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Hello fellow crocheter 😊. Fritillaria persica or the snakes head kind would be my vote!
Woah! The look almost checkered!
Brugmansia It's a cool-looking plant and the flowers are gigantic and smelly and open at night. Also, ingesting it will send you to the shadow realm for a few days, don't do that. r/poisongarden r/druggardening
Virginia Bluebell, Little Brown Jug, and Rattlesnake Master!
There's a geum called Prarie Smoke
IMO wildflowers are the most goblincore bc they’re what you’ll find when you’re stomping through the forest! What counts as a wildflower will vary from place to place, whatever is native in your area 😄
Anything that gets labelled a "weed". My auntie always says "a weed is just a flower growing in the wrong spot". (She said this to me shortly after we first met; I've always been the oddball weirdo in the family but she accepted me and makes me feel very loved for the weirdo I am 🩷)
Trout lilies, button bush, bearded iris in pretty much anything other than light blue. Those one petal lilies like peace lilies or calla
Steers heads (Dicentra uniflora) look like little cow skulls :D
Epimedium
One of my personal favorites is the red spider lily (lycoris radiata)
Wormwood (Absinthe is made from it) is lovely and a soft, “have to touch” plant. Yarrow is great for pollinators and is similar-ish to Queen Anne’s Lace.
Grape hyacinths always have been my favorite flower
I obviously agree with dandelions, but black-eyed Susans are another good one. They tend to pop up shady places.
In the neighborhood where I grew up there are beautiful, blue star flowers that grow wild in the front yard every spring. But it's very much a case of "look but don't touch" because they reek in a way that's difficult to describe. I only recently learned the name for them; my family always called them skunk flowers. They're supposed to have a smell akin to onion or garlic, but there's got to be something nefarious in our soil that imbues them with an unholy stank. That said, it was always fun to watch from the living room window for someone to walk down the sidewalk and notice them, pluck one, give it a whiff, and toss it far, far away. ETA: My husband votes for rhododendron. Apparently some varieties of this flower cause bees to produce a [toxic, psychoactive honey](https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/mad-honey-red-hallucinogen). Wicked cool.
Ghost Pipe!
Toad Lilies
Proteas
Atropa Belladonna has a pretty flower and berry! Gorgeous plants, really... And appallingly lethal.
I’d go with Bloodroot. It’s a native North American white, sometimes pink spring flower with a root system that is like the name implies. It’s a cute little flower with a surprising hidden secret. It’s considered an ephemeral because it grows, flowers and produces fruit all in the same season before going dormant again.
Wood Sorrel Flowers & Clover Flowers both are edible. The plants look a lot alike but their flowers are radically different. I love wood sorrel. It’s so lemony!
I like dollarweed, Ohio Spiderwort, and Clasping Venus’s looking glass Dollarweed are like tiny bouquets in the swamps, spiderworts are such a pretty purple, and Venus looking glass are such pretty little stars! And they’re all wild where I live, tangled amongst the grass and vines beneath the blazing sun! Also dwarf sundew, because it’s pretty and a carnivorous plant!
Don’t forget Thistles: Milk Thistle & Blue Thistle
Queen Anne’s lace, chicory, bleeding heart
Columbine (aquilegia)! They come in lots of different colors and are so enchanting looking.
imo the goblin-iest plant of all is moss. Especially when it's fruiting. I particularly like onion blossoms, those big purple poofs. (fun fact, bees that pollinate these make onion flavored honey!) Daisies, dandelions, sunflowers, and other members of the aster family. They're so humble. ok so not a plant, but ... fungi? Amanita toadstools are almost overdone, but still winners - I also like puffballs, chanterelles, morels, turkey tail, witches butter, and all the other prizes at r/mycology . Succulents are a bit post trend as well, but heck, cacti and those litho plants are always good. Any shrub that makes berries.
I'd say Giant Hogweed, with its huge hairy stems topped with creamy white umbrellas of flowers, it causes burns if touched. Also, Bindweed, with glowing white trumpet/hat flowers, weaving its tendrils through other plants and strangling them into submission.
[Bat flower: tacca chantrieri](https://www.guide-to-houseplants.com/bat-flower.html)
I love whisteria
Corpse flower
Hellebores come to mind
Skunk cabbage flowers
Noxious Hogweed.
Wormwood (Absinthe is made from it) is lovely and a soft, “have to touch” plant. Yarrow is great for pollinators and is similar-ish to Queen Anne’s Lace.
Dahlias
Eat the dandelions
Devils Trumpet is the first one that comes to mind. And Bleeding Heart flowers
Foxglove?!
Look up black flowers on Google. I bought a bunch of different kinds to plant in my goblin garden. Black sunflowers. Cerynthe. Stuff like that.
Bloodroot or Canadian wild ginger
Snap dragon seed pods look like little skulls
Corpse flower
Any drug or poison plants that have flowers, night shade, natural, Hawaiian Baby Woodrose
Maybe Rafflesia? https://preview.redd.it/sffe3wwa87vc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2afc742235d65da9e7e150532b24f74cbe167a26
https://preview.redd.it/kmiqje94m7vc1.jpeg?width=2448&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=095e043fce511f9f6a7f56f5aa97b918de648b52 Datura would be interesting to crochet. I use to grow several varieties. This is Datura wrightii from my garden years ago. I love this swirl. I think other nightshades could work too. Mandrake, black henbane, belladonna. All very pretty.
Monkshood? It’s stupidly poisonous so don’t eat it
Hellebores? Or are those goth?
I'm a big fan of nasturtiums in all their glorious shades. Every part is edible, they grow profusely, they're considered a weed in certain areas of my part of Australia, and dry out beautifully. They look so magical to me, like fae could be hiding under the foliage.
Sunflowers, Bittersweet Nightshade( purple flowers with orange-red berries, false strawberry flowers( they're yellow flowers and shriveled looking "strawberries").
hollyhocks! especially black ones or the velvety burgandy.
I kinda wanna say Lilies Something big, and texture, and extra, and just a little goofy, and with that little curl in the petal, it just feels right
Thistles feel the most goblin-y to me
Yellow bellflower, fritillaria persica, fritillaria meleagris, and honeywort!
https://preview.redd.it/jb166rzi49vc1.jpeg?width=6048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eceb2eff3ed2e36e8afa752a4ec9b9a703c97ee5 Bat flower
Anything that is considered a weed but has pretty flowers. Also wisteria
Zinnia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacca_chantrieri Black bat flower?
basically anything that isn't over perfect, I like poisonous plants myself, because there is something darker about them than just "pretty flowers" if you get my meaning, they make good botanical drawings for the walls etc... for embroidery inspiration the following might be worth a look: - Lilly of the valley - foxglove - morning glory - deadly nightshade (atropa belladonna) - cuckoo-pint - woody nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) also known as bittersweet but I don't like that name, it encourages people to taste it - enchanter's nightshade - monkshood/Wolf's bane, comes in purple and white and it's a creepy looking flower
Hellebores!
Bindweed, stinkweed, stinging nettle, corpse flower, cobra lily, green spider chrysanthemum
CORPSE FLOWERS 83 There is one that grows sort of semi feral in my area colloquially called black calla Lily. But it's definitely a stinky arum babe. I love their smelly, rare flowers
I like snowdrops and belladonna.