Flower color
Yellow flowers
391 garden plants with yellow blooms, with bloom times, hardiness zones, and sun needs. Build a yellow color scheme that lasts across the season.
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How this list is made
Derived from each plant's flower color tags and bloom colors, as stored in the BloomsEye library, which was written with AI assistance. Of these 391 plants, 293 have been checked against outside sources (8 fully verified); the rest have not been checked yet, and each plant's own page says which. The cards are AI-generated illustrations.
Yellow is the first color the eye finds, which is both its use and its problem. A little of it lifts a planting; a lot of it flattens everything around it, because nothing else can compete for attention. It is also the color of both ends of the year: witch hazel and the early crocus in the cold months, then rudbeckia, sunflowers and goldenrod when the rest of the border is going over. Treat the sharp lemons and the deep golds as two different colors. Lemon sits happily with blue and white, gold belongs in a hot border with orange and bronze, and side by side each makes the other look wrong. 391 plants here flower yellow.
Alderleaf Mountain Mahogany
Cercocarpus montanus
Full sunZones 5–108.5 ftLow
All Gold Japanese Forest Grass
Hakonechloa macra 'All Gold'
Part shadeZones 5–91.5 ftModerate
American Gold Rush
Rudbeckia 'American Gold Rush'
Full sunZones 4–92 ftLow
American Goldfinch False Indigo
Baptisia 'American Goldfinch'
Full sunZones 4–93.5 ftLow
Listed as toxic to cats
American Hazelnut
Corylus americana
Full sunZones 4–910 ftModerate
American Linden
Tilia americana
Full sunZones 3–870 ftModerate
Apricot Lemonade
Cosmos bipinnatus 'Apricot Lemonade'
Full sun2.5 ftLow1.5 ft wide
Arizona Apricot
Gaillardia × grandiflora 'Arizona Apricot'
Full sunZones 3–91 ftLow
Arnold Promise
Hamamelis × intermedia 'Arnold Promise'
Part sunZones 5–811 ftModerate
Ascot Rainbow Spurge
Euphorbia × martini 'Ascot Rainbow'
Full sunZones 6–92 ftLow
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Athena Gold False Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides 'Inhelsogia'
Full sunZones 4–81.5 ftModerate
FoliageAugust Moon
Hosta 'August Moon'
Part shadeZones 3–91.5 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Aureo Marginata Hosta
Hosta 'Fortunei Aureomarginata'
Part shadeZones 3–83 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Autumn Gold Narrow-Leaved Sunflower
Helianthus salicifolius 'Autumn Gold'
Full sunZones 5–92 ftModerate
Autumn Moor Grass
Sesleria autumnalis
Full sunZones 5–81.5 ftLow
Autumn Sun Coneflower
Rudbeckia nitida 'Autumn Sun'
Full sunZones 4–94 ftModerate
Avocado Hosta
Hosta 'Avocado'
Part shadeZones 3–93 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Banana Cream
Leucanthemum × superbum 'Banana Cream'
Full sunZones 5–91.5 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Bananappeal Anise Tree
Illicium parviflorum 'PIIIP-I'
Part shadeZones 7–92.5 ftModerate
Barrenwort
Epimedium
Part shadeZones 5–812 inModerate
Bartzella
Paeonia 'Bartzella'
Full sunZones 4–82.5 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Basket of Gold
Aurinia saxatilis
Full sunZones 3–78 inLow
Bay Laurel
Laurus nobilis
Part sunZones 8–1016 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Beryl Bach
Rosa 'Hartesia'
Full sunZones 6–93 ftModerate
Bidens
Bidens ferulifolia
Full sunZones 8–1112 inLow
Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia
Full sunZones 3–92.5 ftLow
Blackjack Gold Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia triloba 'Blackjack Gold'
Full sunZones 3–83.5 ftModerate
Blazeaway Heather
Calluna vulgaris 'Blazeaway'
Full sunZones 4–81.5 ftModerate
Blonde Ambition Blue Grama Grass
Bouteloua gracilis 'Blonde Ambition'
Full sunZones 4–92.5 ftLow
Blue-Stemmed Goldenrod
Solidago caesia
Part shadeZones 4–82.5 ftModerate
Bottle Rocket Ligularia
Ligularia 'Bottle Rocket'
Part shadeZones 4–62.5 ftModerate
Bowles' Golden Sedge
Carex elata 'Aurea'
Part shadeZones 5–82 ftModerate
Brilliantina Abelia
Abelia × grandiflora 'Keyfly'
Full sunZones 6–93.5 ftModerate
Brown-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia triloba
Full sunZones 4–83.5 ftModerate
Bubbly Wine Weigela
Weigela florida 'FLORACLAR'
Full sunZones 4–82.5 ftModerate
Bur Oak
Quercus macrocarpa
Full sunZones 3–870 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs
Butter Rum Tickseed
Coreopsis 'Butter Rum'
Full sunZones 5–81.5 ftLow
Buttered Popcorn Daylily
Hemerocallis 'Buttered Popcorn'
Full sunZones 3–92.5 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Butterflies Magnolia
Magnolia 'Butterflies'
Full sunZones 5–916 ftModerate
Butterfly Marguerite Daisy
Argyranthemum 'Butterfly'
Full sunZones 9–111.5 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
California Flannel Bush 'Ken Taylor'
Fremontodendron 'Ken Taylor'
Full sunZones 8–115 ftLow
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
California Flannel Bush 'Pacific Sunset'
Fremontodendron 'Pacific Sunset'
Full sunZones 8–1116 ftLow
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
California Flannelbush
Fremontodendron californicum
Full sunZones 8–1115 ftLow
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Camelot Cream
Digitalis purpurea 'Camelot Cream'
Part shadeZones 4–94 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Capistrano
Rhododendron 'Capistrano'
Part shadeZones 5–84 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Captain Kirk Hosta
Hosta 'Captain Kirk'
Part shadeZones 3–82.5 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Carlton Daffodil
Narcissus 'Carlton'
Full sunZones 3–81.5 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Carnival Scotch Heather
Calluna vulgaris 'Multicolor'
Full sunZones 5–88 inModerate
Carolina Jessamine
Gelsemium sempervirens
Full sunZones 6–1015 ftModerate
Carolina Lupine
Thermopsis villosa
Full sunZones 4–84 ftModerate
Carolina Moonlight
Baptisia 'Carolina Moonlight'
Full sunZones 4–94 ftLow
Listed as toxic to cats
Cascade Oregon Grape
Berberis nervosa
Part shadeZones 6–92 ftModerate
Celandine Poppy
Chelidonium diphyllum
Part shadeZones 4–91.5 ftModerate
Cesky Gold Dwarf Birch
Betula × plettkei 'Golden Treasure'
Full sunZones 2–72.5 ftModerate
Chandelier
Lupinus 'Chandelier'
Full sunZones 4–83 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Charlotte
Rosa 'Auspoly'
Full sunZones 5–103.5 ftModerate
Chater's Double Yellow
Alcea rosea 'Chater's Double Yellow'
Full sunZones 3–86 ftModerate
Chick Charms Gold Dust Hens and Chicks
Sempervivum 'Ccgd2026'
Full sunZones 3–84 inLow
Chicklet Gold Tecoma
Tecoma stans 'Smntsc'
Full sunZones 8–114.5 ftModerate
Chinkapin Oak
Quercus muehlenbergii
Full sunZones 5–750 ftModerate
Yellow flowers by season
A plant is counted in every season it flowers in, so a long-flowering one appears in more than one. The named picks are the plants whose whole flowering sits in that season, not the ones that only pass through it.
Spring
March, April and May
185 plants
Summer
June, July and August
282 plants
Fall
September, October and November
169 plants
Winter
December, January and February
12 plants
Yellow flowers for shade
77 of these 391 plants will flower in less than a full day of sun.
The longest-blooming yellow flowers
63 of these plants hold their flowers for 5 months or more. These are the longest of them.
Yellow flowers by height
Mature height, in the three bands a border is planted in. Anything over 10 ft is structure rather than a border plant, and a climber is sized by whatever it is growing up, so both sit this out.
Front of the border
under 12 in
31 plants
Middle of the border
12 in to 3 ft
204 plants
Back of the border
3 ft and up
102 plants
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