anthophilia
Etymology
From antho- + -philia.
anthophilia means The love of flowers. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why this word is great
ANTHOPHILIA — [Noun] The love of flowers. From the Greek antho- ("flower") and -philia ("love, fondness"). Unlike "floriculture" (which reduces blossoms to commodities) or "botany" (which dissects petals under the cold lens of taxonomy), anthophilia is the quiet, irrational devotion to ephemeral beauty. It is the child pressing a dandelion into a book like a secret, the old woman tracing the veins of a camellia with her thumb, the mourner leaving lilies on a grave long after anyone visits—a tenderness for what cannot last, which is, perhaps, the purest kind of love.