Flowering

Flow·er·ing

Flowering

a.
  1. Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc. (Bot.)

Phrases & Compounds
Flowering fern
a genus of showy ferns (Osmunda), with conspicuous bivalvular sporangia. They usually grow in wet places.
Flowering plants
plants which have stamens and pistils, and produce true seeds; phenogamous plants; -- distinguished from flowerless plants.
Flowering rush
a European rushlike plant (Butomus umbellatus), with an umbel of rosy blossoms.

Flowering

n.
  1. The act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification.
  2. The act of adorning with flowers.