Red Flowers

Plants with Red or Pink Flowers

Plants with red or pink flowers (especially the latter) can be found in many plant families and are a very diverse bunch in our area. Many small, almost prostrate species, typically flowering in spring or early summer may be found, will the rose and pea families in particular have many species in this color group.

It is worth bearing in mind that red (usually produced by anthocyanins) can be a very unstable color in plants and many pink or red flowers fade to whitish long before they petals eventually wither and fall. In addition, white color forms of red-flowered species are not that uncommon and can cause confusion.

Within the color 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. Also, in cases 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.

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

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

No Petals

Silktree

Four Petals


Pink Evening-primrose	willowherbs	meadow-beauties	Honesty

American Sea Rocket	bedstraw family	Large Cranberry	Pink Spiderflower

Lowland Rotala	poppies	bedstraws

Five Petals

sea-spurries	pinks	Lesser Centaury	marsh-pinks

Common Stork's-bill	Moss Phlox	Trailing Arbutus	marsh St. John's-worts

milkweeds	spring-beauties	Common Soapwort	Proliferous Pink

crane's-bills	crane's-bills	mallows	mallows

Scarlet Flax	Common Purslane	Scarlet Pimpernel	Herb Robert

Madagascar Periwinkle	Madagascar Periwinkle	Pink-sorrel	Rose Campion

Sweet William	Sweet William	Phloxes

Four-o'clocks	Four-o'clocks

Black Swallow-wort	Indian-tobacco	Cardinal-flower	pitcherplants

Six Petals


Swamp-pink	purple loosestrifes	Tuberous Grass-pink	pink orchids

Creeping Lilyturf	Common Hyacinth	American Turk's-cap Lily	Water-shield

More Than Six Petals


Rose-moss	Mexican Cosmos

Many-rayed Flowers


white lettuces	asters

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


Japanese Clover	bush-clovers	tick-trefoils	vetches

bush-clovers	Red Columbine	blueberries & huckleberries	Trumpet Honeysuckle

false-foxgloves	Lavender Bladderwort	huckleberries	Pinesap

mint family	Feverwort	Beechdrops	mint family

toadflaxes	American Lopseed	Moccasin-flower	balsams

Hybrid Petunia	bindweeds	phloxes	plantain-lilies

Many-flowered Heads


Common Cornflower	vetches	Red Clover	bush-clovers

Swamp-pink	purple loosestrifes	Kudzu Vine	catchflies

milkworts	milkweeds	Climbing Hempweed	joe-pye-weeds

Purplish Cudweed	Saltmarsh Fleabane	thistles	knapweeds & ironweeds

Wild Onion	smartweeds	milkworts	mint family

Common Soapwort	docks & sorrels	mint family	blazing stars

orchids	Cardinal-flower	Hybrid Bluebell	Meadow Garlic

Racemed Milkwort	Creeping Lilyturf

Woody Trees, Shrubs & Climbers


Silktree	maples	elms	Sheep-laurel

roses	Hybrid False-quince	apples	Kudzu Vine

Rose Glorybower	Chinese Beautyberry	cotoneasters	Steeplebush

Trumpet Honeysuckle	shrubby Honeysuckles	blueberries & huckleberries	Coralberry

poplars	cherries	locusts	tamarisks

Crape-myrtle	Pink Azalea	Common Butterfly-bush

Cape May Plants An Identification Guide

Plants with Red or Pink Flowers

Species List

Cape May Plants
An Identification Guide