Yellow Flowering Perennials
Below you will find a list of Perennials from our plant database that are yellow flowering. If you click on any of the photos, you will see a Virtual Plant Tag that may contain plant descriptions, usage suggestions and a link to where you can buy that plant for your landscaping.
Flowering perennials can be grown directly in the ground, in containers for patios and decks, window boxes or in hanging baskets and planters. Mixed containers are in vogue, often a blend of annuals, perennials, ornamental grasses and even tropicals to take the urn, window box or decorative planter through the spring, summer, fall until frost. Most of these perennials grow well with average soil moisture and partial or full sun, though some can take full shade giving the home gardener more options for use in the landscape.
Some perennials with yellow flowers are native plants, which are more naturally insect resistant, salt tolerant and have natural disease resistance. Easy to grown natives include Bigflower Tickseed (Coreopsis grandiflora), Black-eyed Susans, also known as Gloriosa Daisies and Rudbeckia hirta, Blanket Flower and their hybrids (Gaillardia), Celandine or Wood Poppy (Stylophorum diphyllum) for the moist woodland garden, Columbines (Aquilegia), Evening Primroses or Common Sundrops(Oenothera), Cutleaf Coneflowers (Rudbeckia laciniata), Goldenstar also called Green and Gold (Chrysogonum virginianum), Lanceleaf Coreopsis, Marsh Marigold (Caltha palustris) and Western Helen's Flower or Sneezeweed (Helenium hoopesii) for moist areas.
Europe and Asia have given American gardeners thousands of yellow blooming Basket-of-Gold or Goldentuft Alyssum (Aurinia saxatilis), a Blackberry Lily cultivar names 'Hello Yello' (Belamcanda flabellata), Buttercups (Ranunculus), Cannas or Indian Shot, Chrysanthemums, Crocus, Daffodil or Jonquils, Daylilies, Globeflower (Trollius), Golden Marguerite (Anthemis tinctoria), Iris, Leopard's Bane, Lilies, Lily of the Incas (Alstroemeria), St. John's Wort (Hypericum), Stonecrop or Sedums, Sulphur Cosmos, Torchlily (Kniphofia), Tulip, Wallflower (Erysimum), Yarrow
Yellow flowering perennials add a brightness, capturing the sunshine. Yellows and Golds blend surprisingly well with cool colors purple and blue but also with warm colors of red, orange and peach. Perennials with yellow blooms look great with green and yellow leaves or needles of variegated groundcovers, ornamental grasses, flowering shrubs, evergreens and trees and bright tropicals.
Flowering perennials are great at attracting butterflies and birds, particularly hummingbirds.
