Yellow & Orange Flowers

Plants with Yellow or Orange Flowers

Plants with yellow or orange flowers are a pretty diverse bunch, but there are some key families that contain a large number of the species. The daisy family is a good place to start as it contains some large groups, such as the dandelions and allies. Other important groups include the st. John's-worts, buttercups, brassicas and trefoils.

As well as flower colour, it is important to take careful note of the exact petal shape - are the petals rounded, or do they came to a sharp point, for example; are there gaps between the petals or do they overlap; are the flowers solitary, or arranged in spikes or bunches.

Within the colour sections, the pictures are grouped so that similar-looking (though not necessarily closely-related) plants will be near each other. This should help to reduce your search time. To keep things concise, not all species are shown in the colour keys, so you may have to go for a 'best match' to get you through to the next stage of the identification process. Particularly in large families where there are a number of very similar species, a representative species is shown here, but clicking on it will take you to a page that tells you how to tell the more difficult species apart.

Many plants will be obviously one colour or another, obviously five petalled, or obviously a woody shrub, etcetera. But many will be debatable. In such cases, I have tried to imagine how a flower might be perceived by others, especially beginners to plant identification. Generally this results in a plant appearing in more than one place on these pages, but some still remain problematic. In particular, the section labelled 'tubular flowers' contains a variety of flowers that might be considered to fall into that category and these generally have petals that are fused together to fully surround the sexual parts of the flower. But these tubes might be elongate like a pencil, or broad and bell-like. Flowers of two colours are entered under the colour that covers most of the flower, but truly bicoloured flowers may be entered under both colours. Woody plants with green stems that might not be considered woody, are entered under their flower colour or shape, as well as under the woody plants sections.

If you still can't find your plant, you either have something very interesting that you may wish to tell me about, or I just haven't got a picture of it yet - I'm still working on the latter!!

Click on the pictures below to go to the species pages.

No Petals


Meadow-rues	Daisy Family	Daisy Family	Bur-marigolds


Daisy Family	Umbellifers	Ragweeds	Groundsels

Groundsels

Three Petals


Irises	Irises

Four Petals


Poppies	Poppies	Poppies	Evening-primroses


Tormentils	Wallflowers	Cabbage Family	Greater Celandine


Cabbage Family	Small Alison	Crosswort	Bedstraws


Golden-saxifrages	Barrenworts	Cabbage Family	Evening-primroses

Five Petals


Nasturtiums	Hollyhocks	Common Rock-rose	Meadow-foam


Water-primroses	Prickly Mallow	Golden-saxifrages	Primroses


Buttercups	Creeping-Jenny	Primroses	Mulleins


Marsh St John's-wort	Gourds & Cucumbers	Kerria	Monkeyflowers


Loosestrifes	Common Purslane	Mulleins	Cinquefoils


Wood Avens	Hybrid Avens	Common Rue	Common Henbane


Yellow Pimpernel	Fringed Water-lily	St John's-worts	Tutsans


Velvetleaf	Mexican Marigolds	Mexican Marigolds	Cucumber family


Spearworts	Yellow-sorrels	Buttercups	Beggarticks & Allies


Fiddlenecks	Gromwells	Stonecrops	Brooms & Gorses


Vetches & Trefoils	Pansies	Cucumber family	Cucumber family

Six Petals


Montbretia	Orange Day-lily	Yellow-eyed-grasses	Yellow Star-of-Bethlehem


Bog Asphodel	Yellow Garlic


Water-primroses	Lilies	Lilies	Tulips


Winter Aconite	Tulips	Crocuses	Daffodils


Irises	Irises	Gladioli

More Than Six Petals


Yellow-wort	Lesser Celandine	Lesser Celandine	Lesser Celandine


Daisy family	Daisy family	Daisy family	Yellow-eyed-grasses


Water-lilies	Poppies	Daffodils	Kerria


Hollyhocks	Rose-moss	Aster Family	Niger


Mexican Marigolds	Mexican Marigolds	Mexican Marigolds	Groundsels


Goldenrods	Lettuces & Allies	Water-lilies	Tricolour Chrysanthemum


Garden Dahlia	Cape Daisy Hybrids

Many-rayed Flowers


Daisy family	Daisy family	Daisy family	Dewplants


Tricolour Chrysanthemum	Yellow Knapweeds	Yellow Thistles	Safflowers

Tubular Flowers (petals fused into a tube-like form)


Yellow Skunk-cabbage	Birthworts	Foxgloves	Crocuses


Balsams	Balsams	Marvel-of-Peru	Common Cowslip


Monkeyflowers	Snapdragons	Germanders	Toadflaxes


Yellow Figwort	Dead-nettle family	Dead-nettle family	Broomrape family


Broomrape family	Broomrape family	Yellow Corydalis	Bladderworts


Comfreys	Daisy family	Groundsels	Cudweed allies


Yellow Bird's-nest	Red-hot-pokers	New Zealand Flaxes	Tulips


Daisy family	Hybrid Petunia

Many-flowered Heads


Foxgloves	Cape Figworts	Yellow Garlic	Tufted Loosestrife


Montbretia	Daffodils	Yellow-eyed-grasses	Agrimonies


Common Kidney Vetch	Yellow Corydalis	Trefoils	Meadow-rues


Hollyhocks	Alisons	Crosswort	Mignonettes


Rhubarbs	Scabiouses	Tansies	Mulleins


Umbellifers	Daisy family	Sages	Cudweed allies


Red-hot-pokers	Goldenrods	Goldenrods	Spurges

Woody Trees, Shrubs & Climbers


American Tulip-tree	St John's-worts	Kerria	Winter Jasmine


Forsythias	Kerria	Sages	Cornelian-cherry


Butterfly-bushes	Butterfly-bushes	Cape Figworts	Chilean Glory-flower


Laburnums	Tree Lupin	Brooms & Gorses	Azaleas


Honeysuckles	Barberries	Barberries	Oregon-grapes


Maples	Maples	Cornelian-cherry	Currants


Wireplant	Bog Myrtle	Hazels, birches and alders	Willows


Willows & Osiers	Poplars	Sweet Chestnut	Limes


Palms	Orange-peel Clematis	Shrubby Cinquefoil	Ake-Ake

Flora of East Anglia An Identification Guide

Plants with Yellow or Orange Flowers

Group List

Flora of East Anglia
An Identification Guide