Common Dicot Flowers

• Petunias are a popular summer dicot flowering plant. Jupiterimages/Photos.com/Getty Images

  A dicot flower has two cotyledons or seed leaves in the embryo while a monocot flower has one. A readily noticeable feature of most dicot flowers are its parts are in multiples of four or five. The flower itself may have four or five petals or multiples of petals, for example.

Sunflower Family

• Asters are dicot blossoms. aster image by Alison Bowden from Fotolia.com

  Daisies, asters, thistles, dandelions and coyote brush are sunflower family blossoms that are multi-petaled with multiple anthers.

Rosaceae

• The geranium is a plant with clusters of dicot blossoms. geranium image by szildy from Fotolia.com

  Wild strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, thimbleberry, Christmas berry, apple, orange, cherry and plum are flowering fruit rosaceae bushes with five-petal blossoms. Roses, chamise or chaparral are flowering plants that can grow several feet high.

Perennial Flowers

• Poppies have four petals. poppy image by Irina Kodentseva from Fotolia.com

  Dianthus, poppy, evening primrose, hollyhock, mallow, phlox and borage have dicot flowers. The blossoms of the purslane family include common purslane, redmaid and miner's lettuce. The heath family members such as mandrove, rhododendron, azalea, blueberry, mint and many herbs are dicots. Vetch, clover and lupine are members of the pea family.

Annual Flowers

• The delicate buttercup plant with the four petal blossom is a dicot plant. Candy tuft, petunia, sweet pea, sweet alyssum, cosmos and the geranium family also sport blossoms with petals in multiples of four or five.

Carrot Family

• The carrot or parsley family group covers coriander, dill, fennel and parsley. Poison hemlock is also a member of the carrot family. Carrots, parsnip and footsteps-of-spring all have dense clusters of five petalled flowers.