In the Victorian flower language, a yellow rose spoke of jealousy.
In the western United States, the yellow rose spoke of love familiar, humble, native to the land. The yellow rose is the prairie rose, the remote rose, the extraordinary in the ordinary. It bears a beauty equal to that of other roses, but also speaks of home, of the too-often-overlooked glories of domestic happiness.
The humble yellow rose was immortalized in a popular cowboy song: “The yellow rose of Texas is the only girl for me.”
