31,967 local flower shops across 51 states
Every florist below is an independent local shop with a real address and phone number, not a national order-gathering service. Pick a state to browse by county or city.
Search for a florist in almost any town and the first results will not be florists. They are order gatherers: national sites that buy advertising against your town's name, take your order and your money, keep a share, and pass what is left to whichever shop in the area agrees to fill it. You do not choose the shop, the shop does not choose the order, and the service fee comes out of what could have been the flowers.
A real shop is a building with a cooler in it. It has a street address you could drive to and somebody who answers the phone during opening hours. Every listing in this directory is that kind of shop, with an address and a number we hold on file. Where a listing's website goes to a wire service rather than the shop's own site, we label it Order page (third-party service) instead of passing it off as theirs, so you always know which one you are about to click.
Ordering online is fine for a birthday bunch. For sympathy work, hospital flowers or a wedding, call. The photograph on any florist's website is a style guide, not a promise: it was shot once, and what a shop can actually build tomorrow depends on what came off the delivery that morning. On the phone you can say who it is for and what happened, and a good florist will tell you what is genuinely good in the cooler that day and make something better than the picture.
It also settles substitutions before they happen rather than after. Every florist substitutes. The question is only whether you agreed to it.
Most shops stop taking same-day orders somewhere in the early afternoon, local time. The cutoff is not about how long the arrangement takes to make. It is about the van: once the driver has left on the day's route, your order is on tomorrow's. That is why a shop two miles away can still say no at three in the afternoon.
Cutoffs move earlier around Valentine's Day and Mother's Day, sometimes by hours, because the route is full by mid-morning. Shops that have claimed their listing here publish their own cutoff time and their holiday arrangements, which is the detail worth checking before you plan around it.
Most directories only let you search by town, which quietly loses the shops that need finding most. A great many florists sit outside any incorporated town, on a road between two of them. Browsing by city alone reaches about seventy-two per cent of the shops in this directory. Adding counties takes it to over ninety-six.
So every state here breaks down both ways: 2,064 counties and 3,191 towns and cities across 51 states. If the town you are looking at has nothing, open the county instead. The county page lists every shop in it, including the ones with no town page of their own. The local word changes as you move around the country and the pages use whichever is correct, so Louisiana reads Parish, Alaska reads Borough, and Virginia's independent cities stand on their own.
If one of these 31,967 listings is your shop, it is already published and you can take it over. Claiming lets you set your opening hours, your same-day cutoff, your delivery area and fees, the services you actually offer, up to eight photographs of your own work, and a description in your own words that replaces the one we wrote. Claim your listing, or add your shop if it is not here yet.
No. We do not sell flowers, process orders or handle anybody's money for an arrangement. This is a directory: it lists the shop and sends you to them, and whatever you spend goes to the florist. Shops can pay a one-time fee to manage their own listing, and that does not move them up any list, because every page here is ordered by name.
Listings are built from open business data and mapped to counties using US Census boundary files, then checked. Websites are tested and the dead ones are hidden rather than left to send you nowhere. Anything on a page where the shop has claimed its listing was supplied by the shop itself. Details still change, so phone before traveling.
Open data misses shops, particularly newer ones and those in unincorporated areas. You can add yours, and if the listing exists but has the wrong address or number you can claim it and correct it. If you would rather it was not here at all, ask us and we will remove it.