Yellow perennial flowers infuse sunshine and cheer into your garden year after year! These florals light up your landscape and add charm, a pop of color, and brightness to your space. With their long bloom times, hardy growth, and exceptional foliage, it’s no wonder these flowers are a favorite of beginners and seasoned gardeners alike!
18 Gorgeous Yellow Perennial Flowers To Make Your Garden Pop
1. Achillea (Achillea millefolium)
Also known as yarrow, Achillea is a perennial plant with clusters of bright yellow blooms that show for weeks, usually from late spring to late summer. It has beautiful, fern-like foliage with a wonderful, fresh smell. Achillea is easy to care for and drought-tolerant, making it an excellent addition to most gardens.
2. Ashy Sunflower (Helianthus mollis)
This native wildflower grows tall with hair-covered leaves and stems topped with yellow blooms from early summer to early fall. It thrives in full sun and dry to medium well-drained soils. Ashy sunflowers are perfect additions to meadows and naturalized settings, and pairing them with other wildflowers can make a show-stopping display.
3. Black-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)
The black-eyed Susan is a classic American wildflower that grows well in most zones, meadows, and landscapes. Its daisy-like golden flowers with dark-colored centers make it easy to identify this short-lived perennial.
4. Blanket Flower (Gaillardia aristata)
The Great Blanket Flower makes a stunning addition to rock gardens or sunny borders with its cheerful golden yellow flowers often tinged with red or orange in the middle. It blooms beautifully from late spring to fall, and its flowers attract beneficial insects, particularly butterflies and bees.
5. Bleeding Hearts (Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra)
A cousin of the False Sunflower, Bleeding Hearts is a strong contender for the best yellow perennial flower with its long-lasting golden blooms (that turn coppery orange with age) and hardy nature. Its upright habit and bright, beautiful flowers make this entry a favorite in borders, though it lasts long when cut and put in vases.
6. Coneflower (Echinacea paradoxa)
Unlike its more popular purple cousin, the Yellow Coneflower stands out with its golden, daisy-like flowers, gracefully drooping petals, and brown core. It tolerates almost anything, making it a hardy perennial that grows profusely from early summer to early fall. It looks beautiful in its dark green foliage, but the flowers also look good cut or dried.
7. Coreopsis (Coreopsis verticillata)
Also called Whorled Tickseed or Whorled Coreopsis, this flower boasts showy, golden-yellow blooms and finely textured foliage. Many cultivars of Coreopsis are available, some with bicolors or orange-yellow colors. They can live long even in hot and dry summer gardens, providing these areas with bright colors.
8. Daffodils (Narcissus spp.)
Perhaps one of the most popular yellow perennial flowers on our list, daffodils are trumpet-shaped, bulbous blooms that usually herald the arrival of spring. They also appear in different colors, such as pink, orange, white, or bicolor, which will look great in your lawn or pots around the house.
9. Daylilies (Hemerocallis spp.)
These gorgeous flowers may come in different colors, though their yellow variety is one of the most stunning. Daylilies are referred to as the perfect perennial because they have showy blooms, are heat and drought-tolerant, low-maintenance, and able to grow in most zones.
10. False Indigo (Baptisia sphaerocarpa)
Yellow Wild Indigo or False Indigo offers spikes of pea-shaped gold or bright yellow flowers that attract beneficial insects for weeks. Its blue-green foliage makes it a striking architectural plant, though it would also look stunning on prairies, meadows, or beds and borders.
11. False Sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides)
Oxeyes are also known as false sunflowers because they resemble true sunflowers, though they are in a different genus. These hardy perennials grow easily in dry to moist woodlands, prairies, or native wildflower gardens, reaching up to 5 feet tall. You’ll see the flowers blooming from midsummer to fall.
12. Golden Columbine ‘Yellow Queen’ (Aquilegia chrysantha)
With a name like that, you know it will be pretty! Golden Columbine features spurred yellow blooms with antlers up to 3 inches across. It thrives in areas with partial shade and moist, well-drained soils. You can plant this in beds, borders, or dark corners of a shade garden that can use some color.
13. Goldenrod (Solidago spp.)
Goldenrods are a must-have for late-season color, usually displaying their full blooms during late summer. Despite what many may believe, this tall, plume-like yellow perennial flower is not responsible for giving people seasonal allergies. Ragweed is usually the culprit for those, and it flourishes at the same time as goldenrods.
14. Lemon Meringue Baptisia (Baptisia 'Lemon Meringue')
A true standout among newer cultivars, Lemon Meringue is a hybrid of native False Indigo. It is explicitly bred for its bright yellow flowers and upright stems with blue-green foliage, combining beauty with durability. Blooming from late spring to early summer, it thrives in full sun in areas with well-drained soils.
15. Ligularia (Ligularia dentata)
Ligularia, also called the Leopard Plant, adds drama to any garden with its dark green foliage, deep purple undersides, and tall, bright orange-yellow flowers. Unlike other yellow perennial flowers, it prefers areas with partial shade and moist soils. For visual impact, you can plant it near water features (like ponds and pools).
16. Shasta Daisy (Leucanthemum x superbum ‘Banana Cream’)
Banana Cream is a cultivar that, unlike traditional white Shasta daisies with yellow centers, offers creamy yellow petals open to white. It’s a compact plant that grows well under full sun and well-drained soils. With its neat form and soft hues, Banana Cream can bring bright elegance to any landscape or cut flower garden.
17. Tickseed (Coreopsis grandiflora)
Another member of the Coreopsis family, Large Flower Tickseed is true to its name for its size (5-7 cm across), cheerful blooms, and low-maintenance nature. It’s an excellent pollinator, attracting butterflies, bees, and other beneficial insects. It’s drought-tolerant and can thrive in poor, rocky, or sandy soils.
18. Yellow Loosestrife (Lysimachia punctata)
This clumping perennial produces upright, sturdy stems with cup-shaped, bright yellow flowers tinged with red or orange at the center. It spreads quickly, adding density to wild gardens and beds when required, but can be invasive if not properly managed. The yellow blooms make excellent cut flowers.
You Might Also Like
15 Amazing Flowers That Start With O
Comments
No Comments