These best Orange Flowers are a great way to brighten up your homes and gardens with fascinating orange blossoms!

If you love the season of fall, then you must be fond of the orange shade. This beautiful color has the happiness of yellow and the energy of red color. It symbolizes fascination, creativity, attraction, success, encouragement, stimulation, and determination. You can bring all these attributes to your home or garden by planting these best Types of Orange Flowers!

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Orange Flowers

1. Pocketbook Plant

Botanical Name: Calceolaria crenatiflora

It is also known as a lady’s purse, slipper flower, and slipperwort. The pouch-shaped flowers come in orange, red-brown, and yellow colors speckled with contrasting shades.

2. Orange Lily

Botanical Name: Lilium bulbiferum var. croceum

Popularly known as fire lily, this hardy and ornamental lily is prized with flamboyant orange flowers, spotted with deep chocolate freckles. The flower’s color deepens to red towards the petal tips.

3. Lantana

Botanical Name: Lantana camera

Lantana displays clusters of tiny flowers in orange, red, and yellow shades. This tropical plant is ideal for hanging baskets.

4. Orange Pansy

Botanical Name: Viola tricolor var. hortensis ‘Nature Orange’

This pansy, from the nature series, shows off bright, cheery orange flowers that will stand out like a flare when planted in a hanging basket or window box.

5. Painted Abutilon

Botanical Name: Abutilon pictum ‘Thompsonii’

‘Painted Abutilon’ is a vigorous evergreen shrub that bears showy, bell-shaped, light-orange, dangling flowers from spring to fall. The variegated maple-like glossy foliage is mottled with yellow color, complementing the beauty of the entire plant.

6. Orange Tulip

Botanical Name: Tulipa ‘Orange Princess’

Tulips are available in almost every color; the orange variety is a beautiful fragrant peony-flowered tulip, which is adorned with light orange petals, blushed with red-purple, and polished with warm pink. The bowl-shaped flowers have green tips on the outer petals.

7. Butterfly Weed

Botanical Name: Asclepias tuberosa

‘Butterfly weed’ is a good choice if you want to attract butterflies in your garden. It features crown-shaped tiny flowers that make a cluster of 2 inches across. During fall, the upright pods open, releasing seeds sparkling with silky hairs.

8. Chinese Lantern Plant

Botanical Name: Physalis alkekengi

The ‘Chinese Lantern’ plant features heart-shaped leaves and white flowers. This plant is grown for the 2-inch wide papery pods or ‘calyxes’ that surround the fruits. The pods look like bright orange ‘Chinese lanterns,’ hence the name.

Note: The unripe berries are toxic. This plant belongs to the nightshade family which includes many toxic plants like; angel’s trumpet and bittersweet nightshade.

9. Oriental Poppy

Botanical Name: Papaver orientale

The cup-shaped, large, papery, bright tangerine flowers have black spots at the base of the petals. This showy flower blooms from late spring to early summer.

10. Calendula

Botanical Name: Calendula officinalis

Calendula, or pot marigold produces beautiful orange-yellow flowers that have had various culinary and medicinal uses since ancient times. This cold-hardy plant is ideal for flower beds or containers.

11. Crocosmia

Botanical Name: Crocosmia ‘lucifer’

This attractive variety forms bright orange or red flowers in spikes with a dense clump of upright, sword-like foliage in late summer. Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’ is popular for attracting bees.

12. Indian Shot

Botanical Name: Canna indica

This plant looks attractive with wide and long, banana-like leaves in bronze, green, or striped patterns. The burgundy stems bear bright orange flowers with droopy petals.

13. Orange Zinnia

Botanical Name: Zinnia elegans ‘Queeny Orange’

Zinnia offers flowers in several different colors, including many shades of orange. ‘Queeny Orange’ offers 2-3 inches wide, solitary flowerheads in coral orange shades. It blooms for an extended period from early summer to frost.

14. Trumpet Vine

Botanical Name: Campsis radicans

This climber grows orange to salmon flowers in summer. Support trumpet vine with a trellis, arbor, or fence, and it will climb beautifully. It is also a great plant to attract hummingbirds.

15. Orange Impatiens

Botanical Name: Impatiens walleriana ‘Sunpatiens Compact Orange’

Impatiens can be grown in both partial sun and full shade. They are available in a range of varieties and tones. The ‘Sunpatiens Compact Orange’ variety offers bright orange 2-3 inches wide flowers that beautifully contrast with dark green foliage.

16. Orange Nasturtium

Botanical Name: Tropaeolum Majus ‘Double Gleam Orange’

Enjoy the beauty of this nasturtium variety all summer long. It features fragrant vivid semi-double flowers in orange color. This variety also goes with the name trailing nasturtium and can reach up to 40-60 inches in length.

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17. Mexican Sunflower

Botanical Name: Tithonia rotundifolia

Native to Mexico and Central America, it is an annual that can grow up to 4-6 feet tall. The bright orange flowers with raised yellow centers attract scores of butterflies in the garden. It blooms from summer through to fall.

18. Crown Imperial

Botanical Name: Fritillaria imperialis

It is a spring-flowering bulb that forms orange, red, or yellow flowers. The unique-looking flower beautifully dangles like a ‘bell.’ The inside markings consist of six round, glossy, white spots close to the base of each petal.

19. Carnation Chabaud Orange

Botanical Name: Dianthus caryphyllus ‘Chabaud Orange’

This carnation hybrid offers you fragrant, large, peach-orange, double-flowers with ruffled petals. It flowers from late spring to mid-summer.

20. Gerbera Daisy

Botanical Name: Gerbera jamesonii

Orange gerberas are praised for their daisy-like, bright, lively flowers with green, woolly foliage. The orange varieties include: Jaguar ‘Deep Orange’, Jaguar ‘Tangerine,’ and Jaguar ‘Orange Fire.’

21. Orange Persian Buttercup

Botanical Name: Ranunculus asiaticus ‘Tecolote Orange’

Persian buttercup produces long-lasting, rose-like, large, bright orange flowers, embellished with multiple, silky, delicate petals with lime-green centers.

22. Torch Lily

Botanical Name: Kniphofia ‘Nobilis’

This late-flowering perennial forms tall, vigorous, long spikes of bright orange-red tubular flowers that fade to yellow in late summer to early fall. It has won the Award of Garden Merit of the Royal Horticultural Society.

23. Orange Sneezeweed

Botanical Name: Helenium hoopesii

Native to North America, this Helenium forms branched clusters of brilliant golden orange-yellow flowers with serrated ray petals. It has a central cone with golden pollens that attract butterflies.

24. Lion’s Tail

Botanical Name: Leonotis leonurus

This dazzling semi-evergreen shrub produces tubular, two-lipped fuzzy orange flowers tiered in whorls around the top half of upright stems. It flowers from late spring through fall.

25. California Poppy

Botanical Name: Eschscholzia californica

Also known as a cup of gold, California sunlight, and golden poppy, this ornamental plant features cup-shaped flowers that are also used as a garnish in food recipes. Also, it has been declared the official state flower of California in 1903.

26. Orange Begonia

Botanical Name: Begonia x tuberhybrida ‘Nonstop Orange’

This beautiful variety displays beautiful, double flowers that resemble roses with their vibrant orange petals from late spring to frost. Hot weather tolerant, Begonia ‘Nonstop Orange’ belongs to the ‘Nonstop’ series.

27. Bird of Paradise

Botanical Name: Strelitzia reginae

The bird of paradise produces bold, elongated orange flowers with hints of blue. It beautifully rises above the pointy dark green foliage from late winter to late fall.

28. Orange Stalked Bulbine

Botanical Name: Bulbine frutescens ‘Orange’

Native to South Africa, it features tall flower stalks with succulent foliage. The small buds flaunt distinct green stripes, deep orange petals, and frilly yellow stamens.

29. Orange Chrysanthemum

Botanical Name: Chrysanthemum ‘Hailey Orange’

This decorative variety of Chrysanthemum sports bright orange flowers with broad petals. It is ideal for embellishing fall landscapes or borders. You can also try other orange Chrysanthemum varieties like*: ‘Dazzling Stacy,’ ‘Miranda Orange,’ ‘Mumosa Orange,’ ‘Pop Eye Orange,’ and ‘Sunset Orange.’

30. Orange Cosmos

Botanical Name: Cosmos sulphereus ‘Cosmic Orange’

This compact, semi-hardy, annual flower showcases vibrant, semi-double orange flowers with fern-like foliage on sturdy stems from early summer to fall.