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Flower in Her Hair

A subset of Hair Decorations. Flowers have long been a symbol of femininity, and therefore young women (and those who are young at heart) sometimes wear them in their hair.

"She has flowers in her hair and bluebirds singing around her head. Who did you think she was, the bringer of pestilence?"

—Loki, The Order of the Stick

These can take the form of a daisy chain headband or a single flower (or bunch) placed in the hair. The flowers can be real or artificial.

Examples of Flower in Her Hair include:

General

  • Fairly common in pornography—it might be the only thing the woman is wearing. Funny, considering flowers are plant sex organs.


Anime and Manga

  • Axis Powers Hetalia
    • Hungary and Taiwan. Hungary's is a geranium and represents Lake Balaton, and Taiwan actually wears the plum flower, the national flower of her country.
    • Vietnam is sometimes drawn with lotuses in her ponytail, which also happen to be the country's national flower. Let's not forget the Nyotalia versions of Japan (who wears a chrysanthemum), China (who wears peonies on her hat), Spain, Sweden, and Hong Kong. Mangary also wears one in his ponytail.
    • Fem!Japan is an especially notable example as the sketches for her have depicted her with no less than three different flowers in her hair: a yellow chrysanthemum in the earliest colored sketch of her, a pink sakura in a more recent colored sketch of her (complete with Cherry Blossoms cascading down on her), and a red spider lily in a colored sketch of her "dark" self. And all of these flowers have a special symbolic significance in Japanese culture.
  • Just about every Rozen Maiden, Kirakishou in particular, who not only has roses in her hair but actually has a rose in place of her eye.
  • When we first meet Nia in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann she has a flower ornament in her hair. Contrast this with resident Action Girl Yoko, who has a hair clip that looks like a skull.
  • Naruto has the Akatsuki member Konan, with a paper flower in her hair at all times.
  • Project A-ko: As mentioned in the parent trope, C-ko Kotobuki wears daisy barrettes in her hair.
  • Uiharu from A Certain Scientific Railgun has a crown of flowers on her head, while Saten has just one. Uiharu hasn't given any sort of definite answer on what her flowers are or how they got there. During the School Festival, when someone points them out, her only response is "What are you talking about?"
  • Lua Klein from Baccano! wears a white flower in her hair.
  • Milfeulle's standard hairdo in Galaxy Angel.
  • In the final episode of Eureka Seven, the hairclip that Renton puts on Eureka has a flower on it.
  • In Future War 198X, the soldier Michael's ingenue girlfriend Marina wears a white flower in her hair. After she dies, he is seen looking at the flower in his hand while singing "Eidelwess", blasting the nuclear warhead without care of the consequences.
  • Lycoris from Sorcerer Stabber Orphen has a hairband with a flower ornament. Given to her by her sister Esperanza. Whom she can't remember due to a mind-wiping spell. It's... complicated.
  • Cordelia Glauca from Tantei Opera Milky Holmes. It's not exactly symbol of femininity, though; if anything, it's probably part of her insanity projected into the real world. The other characters Lampshade Hanging how impossible it's that her hair is always adored with flowers from nowhere.
  • Alicia in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, whose most prominent scene in the series is her playing innocently in an open field with her mother while wearing a daisy chain in her hair.
  • Gertrud of Puella Magi Madoka Magica, in that she's female and that she has flowers in her hair. She's also a giant butterfly monster with a mass of what appears to be moss in place of hair, which has roses growing on it. Yeah.
  • Portgas D. Rouge, Ishilly and an unnamed mermaid from One Piece.
  • Ranma ½. Akane sports a pair of flowers in her hair as part as her skating outfit for the Martial Arts Figure Skating arc. As well as Female!Ranma in the same story after an Instant Cosplay Surprise.
  • Rea from Sankarea sports one of these. Cutest zombie ever!
  • The witch Beatrice from Umineko no Naku Koro ni.
  • Rose from +Anima.
  • Though only a one-time event, Casca from Berserk wore a bough of flowers in her hair during Griffith's celebratory ball. It added to her feminine appeal that fans remember all to well that drew Guts to her.

Films -- Animation


Films -- Live Action

  • In Love Takes Wing, Belinda wears a lovely headband of flowers for her wedding.


Literature

  • In Sandy Mitchell's Warhammer 40,000 Ciaphas Cain novel The Traitor's Hand, Cain is astounded to see Amberley Vail as he had last seen her—wearing a flower he had put behind her ear. It takes him a few minutes to realize that it's a sorcerous illusion.
  • In the children's book Ferdinand the Bull, the ladies at the bull ring are described as wearing flowers in their hair.
  • In Meredith Ann Pierce's Treasure at the Heart of the Tanglewood, the Nature Heroine Hannah actually grows useful plants appropriate to the season in her hair. This is a reader's first clue as to her true nature.


Live-Action TV

  • Niecy Nash of Clean House ALWAYS wears a flower in her hair. Every. Single. Episode.
  • In Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars this is Aeryn's only concession to the fact she's getting married.
  • The same actress (Claudia Black, as Vala) wears a big white flower in her hair for her "non-date" with Daniel Jackson in Stargate SG-1.
  • Guinevere from Merlin is often depicted with flowers in her hair, possibly to contrast with the higher-born Morgana, who wears jewels. Even when Guinevere gets an upgrade in social status, her jewellery is still in the shape of flowers.


Music

  • If you're goiiiing to Saaaan Fraaaanciscoooo / Be sure to weeear some flowers in your haiiir...
  • Rachael Yamagata's song "1963."
 

I feel like I'm loving you in 1963
 Flowers in my hair
Little bitty hearts upon my cheeks...

 
  • One of the traits of the flower girl in The Cowsills' hit "The Rain The Park And Other Things".
  • "Lucky" by Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat features this set of lines:
 

You'll hear the music fill the air
 I'll put a flower in your hair

 
  • Sandi Thom wishes she was a punk rocker with flowers in her hair...


Theatre

 

Lady Sangazure: Love me! I'll stick sunflowers in my hair!
Mr. Wells: Hate me! They'll suit you not!

 
  • In the opera Falstaff, Alice places a flower in her hair during her mock seduction of Falstaff.
  • Ophelia is often represented this way in her mad scenes in older productions (and illustrations) of Hamlet.

Toys

  • In one of the Bionicle animations, Hahli and Macku are seen with hibiscus flowers on their masks and wearing floral leis. Hahli puts her flower on Jaller and then runs away, prompting him to follow her. RoboShipping ensues.


Video Games


Visual Novels


Web Comics

  • Eutropia from Amazoness. This trope is also played with, since Eutropia is actually physically male, but he was raised as a girl.
  • The page quote is from strip #501 of Order of the Stick. Incidentally, Kazumi Kato is also wearing a flower in her hair for her marriage.
  • Tanna of Ears for Elves doesn't like wearing the wreaths of herublossoms at the Taurëcuiva Festival like the other women and girls, but Rolan thinks the flowers suit her.


Web Original


Western Animation

  • Lo from Stoked.
  • Lacienega from The Proud Family
  • Shrinking Violet in Legion of Super-Heroes.
  • Dot from Animaniacs.
  • Princess Amalia of Wakfu, pictured above. The big flower closes at night and even wilts when Amalia is dying in season 1 episode 7, so it is clearly a real one, kept alive by the Sadida's Green Thumb powers. It's not part of her hair, though, as she can still take it off. As if not enough, she sometimes adds another flower on the opposite side.
  • Wendy from Peter Pan and The Pirates wears a wreathe of daisies on her head.
  • Cindy Bear, girlfriend of Yogi Bear, wears a large daisy behind her ear.
  • Helga from Hey Arnold! gets this in "Helga and the Nanny" when her nanny Inga wants her to look more like a girl.
 

Arnold: Wow, Helga... you got flowers in your hair.
Helga: YEAH? Wanna MAKE something of it, Football Head!?
Arnold: No! I was just thinking they look kinda nice.

 


Real Life

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