30 Best Types of Canna Lily Varieties

Not just the beautiful flowers but these 30 Best Types of Canna Lily Varieties have bold tropical and unique foliage as well

If you like the feel of the tropics in your garden, then here are the Best Types of Canna Lily Varieties you can grow for stunning tropical foliage having flowers to match!

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Best Cultivars of Canna Lily

1. Tropicanna Black

USDA Zones: 8-11

This beautiful variety offers big, rich, scarlet blossoms that fade to orange over vibrant dark bronze to chocolate leaves. It attains a height of 4-6 feet tall and 1-2 feet wide.

2. Brilliant

USDA Zones: 8-11

Its vibrant red blooms contrast with lance-shaped narrow leaves. This cultivar flowers from mid-summer to fall and reach up to 3-4 feet tall and 1-2 feet wide.

3. Cleopatra

USDA Zones: 8-11

This famous cultivar displays yellow blossoms with red spots over green or chocolate leaves. It grows to 3-4 feet tall and 2-3 feet wide.

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4. City of Portland

USDA Zones: 8-11

‘City of Portland’ exhibits rich coral-pink blooms on erect stems from mid-summer to fall atop green leaves. It reaches up to 4-5 feet tall and 1-2 feet wide.

5. Ambassadour

USDA Zones: 8-11

This canna is one of the first white varieties and shows off creamy-white large gladiolus blooms embellished with pale salmon-pink throats.

6. Apricot Dream

USDA Zones: 8-11

‘Apricot Dream’ offers clusters of large lily-like pale apricot blooms patterned with gold and deep pink throats on erect stems.

7. Picasso

USDA Zones: 8-11

Loved for its leopard-like blooms, this award-winning cultivar showcases golden-yellow flowers mottled in red freckles atop green leaves.

8. Firebird

USDA Zones: 8-11

This fast-growing canna variety displays clusters of fiery crimson blooms over large green leaves. It grows to 2-3 feet tall and 1-2 feet wide.

9. Phasion

USDA Zones: 8-11

‘Phasion’ has colorful deep purple leaves with strawberry-pink veins and orange blooms. This popular variety grows up to 5-6 feet tall and 3-4 feet wide.

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10. Pink Magic

USDA Zones: 8-11

‘Pink Magic’ grows fast and produces clusters of rich pink blooms on erect stalks over striped leaves. This variety reaches 3-4 feet tall and 1-2 feet wide.

11. Pretoria

USDA Zones: 8-11

The large vivid orange blossoms go well with green leaves and yellow-striped veins, adding a tropical feel to any garden.

12. Erebus

USDA Zones: 8-11

Admired for its stunning leaves, ‘Erebus’ exhibits blue-green foliage with a creamy stripe near the margins and coral-pink blooms. It grows to 3-6 feet tall and 2-3 feet wide.

13. Yellow King Humbert

USDA Zones: 8-11

‘Yellow King Humbert’ displays deep rich yellow blooms blushed with orange over contrasting apple-green leaves. It reaches up to 4-5 feet tall and 1-2 feet wide.

14. President

USDA Zones: 8-11

This classic variety is loved for its large, scarlet blooms embellished with golden-yellow ribbon over tall stems. ‘President’ reaches up to 4-6 feet tall and 1-2 feet wide.

15. Tropicanna Gold

USDA Zones: 8-11

‘Tropicanna Gold’ boasts golden blooms with deep orange speckled throats above erect flowering stems and green gold foliage.

16. Purpurea

USDA Zones: 8-11

If you want a stunning display of orange-red blooms to attract hummingbirds in the garden, this is the one to go for. It grows to 4-7 feet tall and 2-3 feet wide.

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17. Golden Lucifer

USDA Zones: 8-11

This compact variety displays bright yellow blooms variegated with red freckles and lance-shaped green leaves. It’s ideal for sunny borders or big pots.

18. Wyoming

USDA Zones: 8-11

‘Wyoming’ features beautiful, opulent orange blooms with contrasting dark burgundy leaves. It attains a height of 3-4 feet and spreads up to 1-2 feet tall.

19. Ehemanii

USDA Zones: 8-11

This award-winning canna showcases arching stems and pendulous deep rose-pink blooms over green foliage. It grows to 4-7 feet tall and 3-4 feet wide.

20. Coccinea

USDA Zone: 7-9

Native to Northern Argentina, this beautiful variety offers raspberry flowers that look stunning with red or orange staminodes.

21. Canna compacta

USDA Zone: 6-9

It boasts dark red-orange erect blooms and lush green mid-sized leaves. Compacta is from Southern Brazil and Northern Argentina.

22. Canna flaccida or Water Canna

USDA Zone: 8-11

Water Canna is native to the wetlands of southeastern USA. It has large, lightly scented yellow flowers and narrow, glaucous blue-gray leaves.

23. Canna glauca

USDA Zone: 6-9

This canna displays dainty pale yellow and orange flowers. It belongs to the wetlands of tropical America.

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24. Canna iridiflora

USDA Zone: 7-11

This cultivar is native to Columbia, Peru, and Costa Rica, showing large dangling pink to red flowers and large green leaves.

25. Canna jaegeriana

USDA Zone: 8-11

Native to the forests of South America and the Caribbean, this canna features curved, small orange blooms and large oblong-shaped green leaves.

26. Canna patens

USDA Zone: 6-11

Canna patens are from Northern Argentina and produce yellow blooms with wide red edges. It is also called Indian shot, edible canna, and African arrowroot.

27. Canna paniculata

USDA Zone: 7-11

It grows flowers in the shades of red to yellow with green leaves. This variety belongs to Costa Rica, Southern Mexico, and tropical South America.

28. Canna speciosa

USDA Zone: 8-11

This variety produces bi-colored blooms with scarlet petals and large stemless arching leaves. This perennial can grow up to 3-5 feet tall.

29. Indian Shot

USDA Zone: 6-11

It grows bright yellow to scarlet and magenta blooms with blue to burgundy, bronze-green leaves.

30. Canna tuerckheimii

USDA Zone: 7-11

This canna is indigenous to Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Belize, Mexico, Panama, Ecuador, and Colombia. It produces orange-red blossoms and large green leaves.

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