46 Types of Yellow Flowers With Pictures - A Complete List! (2024)

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Nothing beats cascades of vibrant yellow flowers bursting from hanging baskets or containers. Lush floral arrangements can enliven our spirits with their playful colors, sensuous scents, and dangling fruit that often tempts our taste buds.

Such are yellow blossoms. They scream summer and eternal optimism and all it takes is a little basic know-how and creativity to display them to complement and enhance any setting.

Here is a list of 46 popular flowering plants with small yellow flowers and some basic growth information and care tips. Discover which of these flowers will best fit in your garden!

① Narcissus Species – Daffodil

Daffodils are extremely popular indoor garden plants, especially hardy and perfumed Tazetta or Tête-à-tête. They produce tender and scented, small yellow flowers in spring.

② Cymbidium Miniature

This is a free-flowering orchid that creates an explosion of color in your home. They have large, yellow blooms that appear between strap-shaped green leaves. Miniature cymbidiums are compact hybrids that can grow 60 cm tall.

③ Oncidium Hybrids – Butterfly Orchid

Butterfly Orchid is a dainty species that bears small, yellow flowers that look like butterflies, creating a spectacular visual effect. They are easy to grow in regular conditions.

④ Tulipa

Commonly grown for their rainbow colors and wide availability, Tulipa is a staple plant in every gardener’s plant collection.

⑤ Brugmansia X Candida -Angel’s Trumpet

This amazing species has yellow flowers, though they are not that small. It bears rather large, showy, trumpet-shaped flowers with an intoxicating scent that it is impossible to leave it out.

⑥ Hibiscus Rosa Sinensis – Rose of China

This plant has large, trumpet-shaped yellow flowers with a dark red throat and lush green foliage. It is ideal for a vase-like pot.

Related: Hibiscus Care Guide

⑦ Lantana Camara – Yellow Sage

This large shrub blooms from spring to late autumn with small round clusters of yellow, cream, or pink flowers. It can also be grown in pots outside and you can also get a dwarf variety.

⑧ Strelitzia Reginae – Bird of Paradise

This is a plant that has large, blue-gray, paddle-shaped leaves and exotic yellow blooms. It is somewhat drought tolerant.

⑨ Aphelandra Squarrosa – Zebra Plant

This foliage plant has striped green and cream foliage and colorful autumn flowers composed of yellow bracts around small yellow-orange blooms. It favors high humidity, so it is ideal for a bathroom.

⑩ Yellow Butterfly Bush-Buddleia Davidii

This is one of the most fragrant flowering shrubs you can find, accompanied by lance-shaped green leaves for a nice contrast. It thrives in zones 5-10.

⑪ Goeppertia Crocata – Eternal Flame

Differently called Calathea crocata, this plant produces yellow-orange summer flowers that got it its name. The foliage is colorful, broad, oval, somewhat wrinkled, and green with a metallic sheen on the upper sides and burgundy beneath. It is one of the species that appear in different shades of yellow and thrives in zones 4-11.

⑫ Burbidgea Schizocheila – Golden Brush Ginger

Originating from Borneo, these plants make ideal wild shrubs for containers. They feature odd and unique flowers that are yellow at the top and fade into orange and eventually red on the throat borne on purplish-red stems. It grows up to 3 feet tall. It can’t thrive in zones 5 nor zones 2 because it requires a temperature above 40 degrees F and it is not hardy.

⑬ Plumeria

Indigenous to Mexico and the Caribbean, Plumeria as a deciduous shrub produces very lovely flowers, often in two colors, including yellow and white ones, especially fragrant at night. The leaves are large and shiny.

⑭ Gerbera Jamesonii

Stunning both as a bedding plant or a container plant, Gerbera daisy is related to sunflowers and somewhat resembles them. They come in a variety of lively shades with a dark central disk and long green leaves.

⑮ Bulbine Frutescens

Native to South Africa, this is a succulent plant with grass-like foliage and small, pale yellow blooms.

⑯ Hoya Lacunosa

Hoya lacunosa is a species of the diverse Hoya genus with its miniature, fuzzy, pastel yellow flowers and glossy leaves. Each flower cluster is pendulous, looking downward, and comprises around 15-30 flowers each. Emerging from the center is a gorgeous, almost translucent, yellow-orange central crown.

⑰ Begonia

Begonia genus abounds in different plant types, leaf coloration, textures, and flower colors, and yellow is no exception. They make great bedding plants or container plants.

This is a very common easy-to-grow annual plant with buttery-yellow trumpet flowers that grow to be 12 inches tall and does pretty well in hanging baskets, window boxes and even provides a marvelous floral blanket to the ordinary and dull soil.

⑱ Petunia

⑲ Hyacinthus Orientalis – Dutch Hyacinth

Also called Spring Bulbs, this plant is a richly perfumed member of the Hyacinth genus with its colorful flower, including yellow blooming in mid-spring. It grows in zones 4-8.

⑳ Rudbeckia Hirta – Black-Eyed Susan

This is a wildflower from North America that boasts yellow daisy-like flowers. Some of the cultivars you can find are “Becky Mixed” and “Toto”.

㉑ Gelsemium Sempervirens – Carolina Jasmine

False Jasmine is an evergreen flowering plant that features an abundance of butter yellow to vibrant yellow trumpet-shaped flowers in late winter to early spring and attracts pollinators. It received the Award for Garden Merit.

㉒ Dianthus Caryophyllus – Carnation

Carnation is an erect slow-growing perennial that produces colorful flowers including yellow in mid-summer. It thrives in zones 6-8.

㉓ Craspedia Globosa – Billy Button

This is a perennial wildflower that adds a summer note to your indoor or outdoor garden with its small, yellow flower ball which is long-lasting and will even make an amazing dried display or cut flower. It thrives in zones 3-10.

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Plants with yellow flowers

㉔ Lily – Asiatic Lily

Yellow lilies are emblems of cheerfulness and liveliness and will refresh any flower bed or mixed containers indoors. They are easy to grow and make very lively displays also as cut flowers. Some of the options to choose from are King Pete, Citronella, and Salmon Twinkle.

㉕ Iris

This is a genus of more than 300 species in a variety of colors, yellow, violet, pink or red. The flowers consist of six petals, three upright and three hanging, as well as soft hairs in the center, giving this plant genus name bearded iris.

㉖ Yarrow – Achillea Millefolium

Yarrow is a herbaceous perennial plant that features yellow, pink, and white flowers. It is mostly used as a bedding plant in flower beds where it attracts a profusion of butterflies.

㉗ Crossandra Infundibuliformis – Firecracker Flower

Native to southern India and Sri Lanka, this plant shows off magnificent yellow flower clusters shaped like funnels and spread out flat. They are dynamic and charming enough to make real conversation pieces. A small, but powerful plant in window boxes and baskets.

㉘ Gazania Rigens – Gazania

Ganzania dances across the outdoor garden with its cool silvery-green leaves and eye-popping, yellow flowers. It is drought and heats tolerant plus it attracts pollinators. They feel equally at home in garden beds as edging or ground cover, even in containers alone or with mixed company.

㉙ Justicia Spp. – Jacobinia

This plant is native to South America and has straight-up stems, crisp, erect yellow flowers and long, coarsely veined leaves. Their dizzying nectar always attracts insects.

㉚ Anigozanthos Flavidus – Kangaroo Paw

It forms a strappy rosette of thin leaves, furry yellow flowers that look like tubes with puffy ends, aligned to make a kangaroo’s paw. They have the appearance of short, soft fuzz, but the flowers are long-lasting and are widely sought-after as cut flowers.

㉛ Pachystachys Lutea – Lollipop Flower

This plant blooms almost all year with its yellow waffle cones of bracts that look like bright candles when flowers emerge from their depths. When they emerge, the flowers stand up straight on stiff stems above dark green foliage, deeply veined and flossy.

㉜ Epidendrum Spp. – Reed Stem Orchid

This plant produces yellow, orange, and red sultry flowers with pouty, painted lips, sometimes even all these colors can be seen on one flower cluster. It attaches itself to tree bark for support as an epiphyte, thus the name Epidendrum, which means “on tree”. The leaves are green and thick. It grows in zones 3-11.

㉝ Senna Alata – Candle Bush Tree

Christmas candle or Candlestick tree produces golden flower clusters that look like cottony balls sitting on upright stems. It is a large tree in its native habitat, yet a small shrub in most other zones.

㉞ Tecoma Stans – Yellow Bells

Indigenous to Brazil, Argentina, and South Florida, this is a woody yellow flowering shrub that bears a bit larger yellow bells that are very friendly all year as an addition to an indoor garden.

㉟ Gardenia Carinata – Yellow Gardenia

Commonly known as Golden gardenia, it is a perfect plant with leathery leaves, golden flowers that consist of seven petals each, and a seductive aroma that qualifies them as the most fragrant plant on the list. The spicy scented flowers open a few at a time and can be a long-lived container plant outside the tropics.

㊱ Telosma Cordata – Chinese Violet

Chinese Violet or Tonkin Creeper is a small vine that produces golden yellow starbursts with cloying sweet fragrance. They are produced from spring through fall in clusters on thick stems. The leaves are heart-shaped with distinct veins. It is a true fragrance machine.

㊲ Crossandra Pungens

Native to tropical Africa, this species has narrow dull leaves with pale wains and yellow-orange flowers borne in spikes with spiny bracts.

㊳ Impatiens Repens – Golden Dragon

Golden Dragon is an evergreen, creeping perennial with golden, hooded flowers and small, bean-like leaves with red stems. It is especially suited to hanging baskets. It thrives in zones 10-12.

㊴ Dendrobium Lindleyi

This is a small-growing species with crowded, small, leathery leaves and long and pendulous inflorescences with up to 15 flowers, yellow, fragrant, and long-lasting all summer long.

㊵ Antirrhinum Majus

Snapdragon is another majestic species with pale yellow flowers arranged like bells around an upright green stem. Grow it as a bedding plant.

㊶ Calceolaria Crenatiflora – Lady’s Slipper

This is a compact plant that grows to be 25 cm tall. It has roughly oval leaves, sage green and crinkled, as well as pouch-shaped flowers that are usually yellow or orange and spotted with a contrasting color. Their soft stems and leaves attract greenfly.

㊷ Eranthis Hyemalis – Winter Aconite

This plant can grow indoors in pots or containers provided in the right conditions. It is grown from tubers and each one produces a single bright yellow flower in late winter or early spring. Its stem can be up to 4 inches tall.

㊸ Euryops pectinatus – Gray-Leaved Euryops

Native to South Africa, this plant has bright yellow daisy-like flowers. It can grow 90 cm tall and it should be overwintered indoors and repotted in spring. It looks exceptionally beautiful in the company of blue or purple flowers.

㊹ Marigolds

This is an annual flowering plant that produces vividly colored yellow blooms both in early and late summer. They look exceptionally beautiful in shared containers.

㊺ Rosa

It has long been considered that yellow roses symbolize jealousy. Be that true or not, they often find their way into flower beds or vases and add a summer note to any display. Tea roses have the most intense fragrance of all Rosa flowers. It thrives in zones 3-11.

㊻ Viola Wittrockiana

Yellow pansies are extremely popular hardy annual plants whose flowers bloom all year round and perform best as ground covers. It thrives in zones 4-8 in late summer.

Conclusion

Plants with yellow flowers are not only a pleasant sight to the eye but also to the senses and well-being. They emit positive, summery vibes, evoke pleasant memories and transform an ordinary day into a more cheerful one.

Combine them with some contrasting flowers in shades of purple, red or orange. Moreover, give some thought to the container. If you choose carefully, it will work in harmony with flowers to create the most beautiful background image as it can.

Hopefully, this list has helped you choose small yellow flowers that best appeal to you and your personality.