What are Britain’s national flowers?
England is the rose. The flower has been adopted as England’s emblem since the time of the Wars of the Roses (1455-1485) – civil wars between the royal house of Lancaster (whose emblem was a red rose) and the royal house of York (whose emblem was a white rose). The Yorkist regime ended with the defeat of King Richard III by the future Henry VII at the Battle of Bosworth on 22 August 1485, and the two roses were united into the Tudor rose (a red rose with a white centre) by Henry VII when he married Elizabeth of York.
