Mayflower was the ship that transported the Pilgrims from Plymouth to the New World in 1620.

Mayflower may also refer to:

Literature

  • Mayflower (series), an unfinished book trilogy by Orson Scott Card and Kathryn H. Kidd
  • Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, a 2006 book by Nathaniel Philbrick

Places

  • Mayflower, Arkansas
  • Mayflower Village, California
  • Mayflower, Missouri
  • Mayflower, Virginia

Plants

  • Cardamine pratensis, mayflower or cuckoo-flower
  • Epigaea repens, mayflower or trailing arbutus
  • Maianthemum canadense, Canada mayflower or false lily-of-the-valley
  • Delonix regia tree, known as Gulmohar or May-flower tree in India
  • Crataegus, hawthorn, quickthorn, thornapple, May-tree, whitethorn, or hawberry
  • Crataegus monogyna, the common hawthorn or may
  • Laelia speciosa, Mayflower orchid
  • Cattleya trianae, Flor de Mayo ('May flower') or Christmas orchid

Rail transportation

  • Mayflower (passenger train), an English train service from Kingswear to London Paddington
  • LNER Thompson Class B1 61306 or Mayflower, a preserved steam locomotive
  • Mayflower line, a railway line from Manningtree to Harwich in Essex, England
  • Mayflower MRT station, a station in Singapore

Schools

  • Mayflower School, a school in Ikenne, Ogun State, Nigeria
  • Mayflower Secondary School, a school in Ang Mo Kio, Singapore
  • Mayflower High School, a school in Billericay, Essex, England
  • Mayflower Primary School, Poplar, a school in London, England
  • Mayflower School (Juneau, Alaska)
  • Mayflower High School (Arkansas)
  • Mayflower School District

Ships

  • List of ships named Mayflower

Other uses

  • Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure, a 1979 American TV film
  • Triumph Mayflower, a British car
  • Mayflower Hotel, a hotel in Washington, D.C.
  • Mayflower incident, a 2008 grenade attack in Belize
  • Mayflower Mall, a mall in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
  • Mayflower Pictures, a former British film production company
  • Mayflower Productions, a former British-based film production company
  • Mayflower Theatre, a theatre in Southampton, England
  • Mayflower Transit, an American moving company

See also

  • Sydney Biddle Barrows, an American businesswoman and escort agency owner, later known as the Mayflower Madam
  • Majblomma ('Mayflower'), a traditional Swedish charity pin
  • Mayflower Compact, the first governing document of Plymouth Colony
  • Mayflower Compact signatories