These best Types of 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 in your home or garden by planting these best Types of Orange Flowers!
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Types of 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 and tiger lily, this hardy and ornamental lily is prized with flamboyant orange flowers, spotted with deep chocolate freckles. The flowers turn more pretty when the color deepens to red towards the petal tips.
3. Lantana
Botanical Name: Lantana camara
The small bouquet of lantana displays tiny flowers in orange, red, and yellow shades. This tropical plant is ideal for hanging baskets.
4. Pansy ‘Nature Orange’
Botanical Name: Viola tricolor var. hortensis ‘Nature Orange’
This pansy, from 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 a yellow color that complements the beauty of the entire plant.
6. ‘Orange Princess’ 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 for the light orange petal, blushed with red-purple and polished with warm pink. The bowl-shaped flowers have green tips on the outer petal.
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 orange 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 flowers. The pods look-like bright orange ‘Chinese lantern’ hence the name.
Note: The unripe berries are toxic. This plant belongs to the nightshade family that includes many toxic plants like; angel’s trumpet and bittersweet nightshade.
9. ‘Prince of Orange’ Oriental Poppy
Botanical Name: Papaver orientale
The cup-shaped, large, crepe papery, bright tangerine flowers have black spots and dark ‘eyes’. This care-free satiny 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 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 branched spikes with a dense clump of upright, sword-like foliage in late summer. Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’ is popular for attracting bees.
12. Canna Lily
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. It is one of the best Types of Orange Flowers!
13. Zinnia ‘Queeny Orange’
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, double flowers in coral orange shade. It blooms for an extended period from early summer to frost.
14. Trumpet vine
Botanical Name: Campsis radicans
This climber forms 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. Impatiens ‘Sunpatiens Compact Orange’
Botanical Name: Impatiens walleriana ‘Sunpatiens Compact Orange’
Impatiens can be grown in both sun and shade. They are available in a range of varieties and tones. The ‘Sunpatiens Compact Orange’ offers bright orange 2-3 inches wide flowers that beautifully contrast with dark green foliage.
16. Nasturtium ‘Double Gleam Orange’
Botanical Name: Tropaeolum Majus ‘Double Gleam Orange’
Enjoy the beauty of this nasturtium variety all summer long. It features fragrant vivid semi-double orange flowers. 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 center attract scores of butterflies in the garden. It offers a yield of flowers, two times, in the same year.
18. Crown Imperial
Botanical Name: Fritillaria imperialis
Also known as Kaiser’s crown, 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 ‘Super Trouper Orange’
Botanical Name: Dianthus caryophyllus
This carnation hybrid offers you with fragrant, large, peach-orange, double-flowers with ruffled petals. It flowers from late spring to mid-summer.
20. Orange Gerbera
Botanical Name: Gerbera jamesonii
Orange gerberas are praised for their daisy-like, bright, lively flowers with green, fuzzy foliage. The orange varieties include;Â Jaguar ‘Deep Orange’, Jaguar ‘Tangerine,’ Jaguar ‘Orange Fire.’
21. Persian Buttercup ‘Tecolote Orange’
Botanical Name: Ranunculus asiaticus
Persian buttercup produces long-lasting, rose-like, large, bright orange flowers, embellished with multiple, silky, delicate petals with lime-green centers. It is one of the best Types of Orange Flowers!
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 an orange cone-like center 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 orange flowers that are also used as a garnishing agent in food recipes. Also, it has been declared the official state flower of California in 1903.
26. Begonia ‘Nonstop Orange’
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 ‘Nonstop Series.’
27. Orange Bird of Paradise
Botanical Name: Strelitzia reginae
The orange bird of paradise produces bold spikes of 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 stripe, deep orange petals, frilly yellow stamens.
29. Chrysanthemum ‘ Hailey Orange’
Botanical Name: Chrysanthemum Morifolium ‘orange.’
This decorative variety of ‘mum’ sports bright orange flowers with broad petals. It is ideal for embellishing fall landscape or borders. You can also try other orange chrysanthemum varieties like; ‘Dazzling Stacy,’ ‘Miranda Orange,’ ‘Mumosa Orange,’ ‘Pop Eye Orange,’ ‘Sunset Orange.’
30. Cosmos ‘Cosmic Orange’
Botanical Name: Cosmos sulphureus
This compact, semi-hardy, annual flower showcases vibrant, semi-double orange flowers with fern-like foliage on sturdy stems from early summer to fall. It is one of the best Types of Orange Flowers!
31. ‘Gwyneth’ Dahlia
Botanical Name: Dahlia pinnata
‘Gwyneth’ Dahlia is a classy waterlily dahlia with flaming orange flowers, pale in the center that deepens with age. Other orange dahlias include; ‘Jodie Wilkinson,’ ‘Peach Brandy,’ ‘David Howard,’ ‘Sylvia,’ ‘Vulcan,’ ‘Mrs. Eileen’.
32. Orange Daylily
Botanical Name: Hemerocallis fulva (Tawny Daylily)
Also known as Tiger Daylily, Tawny Daylily, or Ditch Lily, it forms trumpet-shaped, six-petaled, orange flowers on tall leafless stalks. The flowers last not more than 24 hours hence the common name ‘Daylily.’
33. Peruvian Lily
Botanical Name: Alstroemeria ‘Indian Summer’
‘Peruvian Lily’ is an exotic, vigorous perennial that flaunts coppery-orange and golden-yellow flowers. The petals are beautifully patterned with dark burgundy-streaks and create a fantastic contrast with lance-shaped rich-bronze foliage.
34. ‘Helica Orange’ Strawflower
Botanical Name: Bracteantha bracteatum
“Helica Orange’ produces large, long-lasting, papery, bold orange daisy flowers with yellow eyes at the ends of the stem. The narrow leaves stay dark green throughout the season.
35. Trumpet Honeysuckle
Botanical Name: Lonicera ciliosa
Also known as orange honeysuckle, Northwest honeysuckle, or Western Trumpet, it produces clusters of sweetly-scented, nectar-producing trumpet-shaped orange flowers on climbing vines that can grow up to 33 feet (10 m) long.
36. Hummingbird Hyssop
Botanical Name: Agastache ‘Apricot Sunrise’
An aromatic plant, it is a must-have specimen if you want to attract hummingbirds to your garden. Its large, orange-pink-flowers can be a great addition to any pollinator-friendly garden.
37. Cat’s Tail Aloe
Botanical Name: Aloe castanea
Growing up to 8-12 feet tall, the plant has an unusual looking, dark orange-brown flowers that grow mid-winter. It gets its name, thanks to the curled and snake-like inflorescence.
38. Sigar Plant
Botanical Name: Cuphea ignea
Also popular as the firecracker plant, it is a rounded and bushy, evergreen shrub that can reach an impressive height up to 10-20 feet. It grows tubular, bright orange-red flowers, that attract hummingbirds and butterflies.
39. Climbing Penstemon
Botanical Name: Keckelia cordifolia
A drought-tolerant plant, it can grow up to 4-6 feet tall and produces hairy flower clusters in pale orange-red hues that match well with its oval and heart-shaped leaves. It does well in bright and shaded spots.
40. Rose
Botanical Name: Rosa hybrid ‘Pat Austin’
Large, deeply cupped flowers of Pat Austin comes in a beautiful shade of Orange-copper. The blooms have a unique contrasting shade that makes them immensely attractive. The flowers also have a mild tea/clove scent.
41. Marigold
Botanical Name: Tagetes
If you are looking for a flower that blooms all summer long in a bright shade of orange, then this is the plant for you! The large, pompom double flowers come in the shades of yellow, gold, and orange. The plant does best in sun.
42. Orange Trumpet Vine
Botanical Name: Pyrostegia venusta
A vigorous and fast-growing growing vine, it blooms all winter long. The dazzling shade of its vibrant orange flowers creates quite a spectacle in full sun. It makes for a great lush ground cover or a climbing vine, both.
