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 aster family is a good place to start as it contains some large groups, such as sunflowers & tickseeds, dandelions and allies and goldenrods. Other important groups include the evening-primroses, st. John's-worts, buttercups, brassicas, trefoils and the lily family.

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
Golden-club Groundsel Common Beggar-ticks Pineapple-weed
Golden-club
Groundsel
beggar-ticks
pineapple-weed
Small-flowered Buttercup
buttercups
Three Petals
Bog Yellow-eyed-grass Yellow Iris Carolina Redroot
yellow-eyed-grasses
irises
Carolina Redroot
Four Petals
St. Andrew's Cross Wild Radish Turnip Seaside Evening-primrose
st. John's-worts
yellow crucifers
yellow crucifers
evening-primroses
Golden Hedge-hyssop Seedbox Narrow-leaved Evening-primrose Licorice Bedstraw
Golden
Hedge-hyssop
Seedbox
evening-primroses
bedstraws
Globe-fruited Primrose-willow Greater Celandine California Poppy
primrose-willows
Greater Celandine
California Poppy
Five Petals
Kidney-leaved Buttercup Stiff Yellow Flax Moth Mullein Dwarf Cinquefoil
buttercups

flaxes
mulleins
cinquefoils
Hairy Buttercup Low Frostweed Pumpkin Buffalo-bur
buttercups

frostweeds
cucumbers
& gourds
Buffalo-bur
Ipecac Spurge Prickly Wireweed Soft Agrimony Floating Primrose-willow
spurges

Prickly Wireweed

agrimonies

primrose-willows

Indian Strawberry Velvetleaf Slender Yellow-sorrel Perforate St. John's-wort
cinquefoils
Velvetleaf
wood-sorrels
st. John's-worts
Common Purslane Woolly Hudsonia Common Partridge-pea Sensitive Partridge-pea
Common
Purslane
hudsonias

Common
Partridge-pea
Sensitive
Partridge-pea
Stringy Stonecrop Whorled Loosestrife Pumpkin Columnar Prairie Coneflower
stonecrops

Whorled Loosestrife
cucumbers
& gourds
prairie coneflowers

Tomato
Tomato

Six Petals
Glaucous Greenbrier Yellow Star-grass Lake Loosestrife Yellow Iris
greenbriers
Yellow Star-grass
Yellow loosestrifes
irises
Goldencrest American Yellow Water-lily Hybrid Daffodil Spring Crocus
Goldencrest
Water-lilies
Hybrid Daffodil
Spring Crocus
American Turk's-cap Lily Orange Day-lily
Lilies
Orange Day-lily
More Than Six Petals
Northern Prickly-pear Lesser Celandine French Marigold
Northern
Prickly-pear
Lesser Celandine
French Marigold
French Marigold Rose-moss
French Marigold
Rose-moss
Many-rayed Flowers
Maryland Golden Aster Brown-eyed Susan Common Sunflower Hybrid Blanketflower
yellow daisies

sunflowers
& allies
sunflowers
& allies
Common
Blanketflower

Golden Tickseed Lesser Hawkbit Canadian Lettuce Lesser Dandelion
Golden
Tickseed
lettuces
& dandelions
lettuces
& dandelions
lettuces
& dandelions
Tubular Flowers (petals fused into a tube-like form)
Balkan Toadflax Wild Indigo Golden Hedge-hyssop Humped Bladderwort
toadflaxes

vetches

Golden
Hedge-hyssop
bladderworts

False-foxgloves Clammy Ground-cherry Yellow Bartonia Spring Crocus
false-foxgloves

ground-cherries

Yellow Bartonia

Spring Crocus

Spotted Touch-me-not Trumpet Creeper Small Red Morning-glory
Spotted
Touch-me-not

Trumpet
Creeper
Small Red
Morning-glory

Many-flowered Heads
Carolina Redroot Tansy Common Beggar-ticks Groundsel
Carolina Redroot
Tansy
beggar-ticks

Groundsel

Turnip Cypress Spurge Black Medick Great Mullein
yellow crucifers
spurges
medicks &
trefoils
mulleins
Yellow Thistle Safflower Fennel Slender Fragrant Goldenrod
Yellow Thistle

Safflower
Fennel
fragrant
goldenrods
Lake Loosestrife Ribbed Melilot Slender Goldenrod Tall Goldenrod
yellow loosestrifes
melilots
goldenrods

goldenrods

Crested Fringed Orchid Orange Milkwort Butterfly Milkweed Spotted Beebalm
orange orchids
Orange Milkwort
Butterfly Milkweed
Spotted Beebalm
Woody Trees, Shrubs & Climbers

Willow Oak Hazel Alder Golden Weeping Willow Red Maple
oaks

birches &
alders

willows

maples

Winged Sumac Pride-of-India Tree-of-heaven Norway Maple
sumacs

Pride-of-India

Tree-of-heaven

Norway Maple

Ohio Buckeye Flowering Dogwood Glaucous Greenbrier Common Forsythia
Ohio Buckeye

Flowering Dogwood

greenbriers

Common
Forsythia

Japanese Barberry Sassafras Northern Spicebush Orange Butterfly-bush
barberries
Sassafras
Northern Spicebush
Orange Butterfly-bush
American Tulip Tree Trumpet Creeper Intermediate Witch-hazel
American
Tulip-tree
Trumpet
Creeper

Intermediate
Witch-hazel