All of us like to look at those pretty flowers blooming all around, especially during winter and spring. Remember that tree laden with yellow flowers, which hang like bunches of grapes? How often have you wondered: What's that flower? Nobody around you seems to know the answer. There was a time, when a lot of people knew about a lot of flowers. But for the city bred individual, flowers are only like pretty pictures. The pace of city life tends to alienate the individual from mother nature, which brought him into existence in the first place.
Flowers of India website is aimed at having information about all the flowers found in India, with their common names, especially in Indian languages, pictures and habitat, easily available in one place. This is meant to be a place you can look at if you saw a flower and wanted to know more about it. Knowing more about flowers, and then going out and having a look at them, will be more like communing with nature.

The website now has QR Codes generated for all species on the website (appearing as a link on the top of every flower page). Viewers are encouraged to print these QRCode images in labels/placards in botanical gardens, parks etc so that general public gets better awareness about the plants they see. Scanning the QR Code of a plant with Google Lens in a smartphone, will direct one to the page for that plant on the FOI website, displaying pictures of flowers, and other info.