Floral symmetry
![[Left] Normal Streptocarpus flower (zygomorphic or mirror-symmetric), and [right] peloric (radially symmetric) flower on the same plant](/Images/godic/202501/28/Peloria_in_Streptocarpus0355.jpg")
![Wurmbea stricta, its tepals in actinomorphic arrangement](/Images/godic/202501/28/Wurmbea_stricta_01530355.jpg")
![Satyrium carneum. Ground orchid with typical zygomorphic floral anatomy](/Images/godic/202501/28/Satyrium_erectum_detail_Ground_orchid_Pienktrewwa_Near_Ceres,_Western_Cape_04140355.jpg")
![Digitalis purpurea (common foxglove) displaying an aberrant peloric terminal flower and normal zygomorphic flowers](/Images/godic/202501/28/PeloricFoxglove0356.jpg")
Floral symmetry describes whether, and how, a flower, in particular its perianth, can be divided into two or more identical or mirror-image parts.
Uncommonly, flowers may have no axis of symmetry at all, typically because their parts are spirally arranged.