These are the different kinds of flowers, with names and images, that start with the letter Y. With an emphasis common and easy to grow flowers:
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Yarrow
it is also known as Achillea millefolium or common yarrow, a beautiful flowering plant.
- Common Name: Yarrow
- Scientific Name: Achillea millefolium
- Type: Perennial
- Water: Dry to medium
- Soil PH: 4.7-8
- Flower Color: White Flowers, Pink Flowers
- Special Characteristics: Attracts birds and butterflies, Fragrant
- Hardiness Zone(s): 3-9
- Height At Maturity: 24″ – 36″
- Sun: Full Sun
- Sub Type: Groundcover
Yellow Archangel
It is also known as artillery plant, aluminum plant, yellow weasel-snout.
- Common Name: Yellow archangel
- Scientific Name: Lamium galeobdolon
- Type: Perennial
- Water: Tolerates drought
- Soil PH: 6-8
- Flower Color: Yellow with brown specks
- Special Characteristics: Showy flowers, easy-to-grow
- Hardiness Zone(s): 4 to 9
- Height At Maturity: 12-24″
- Sun: Part shade to full shade
- Sub Type: Groundcover
Yellow Bell
- Common Name: Yellow Bells
- Scientific Name: Tecoma Stans
- Type: Shrub, Perennial
- Water: Moderate
- Soil PH: 7.6 to 7.8
- Flower Color: Yellow Flowers
- Special Characteristics: Attracts Birds and Butterflies, Showy Flowers, Container
- Hardiness Zone(s): 8 to 11
- Height At Maturity: 180″ to 240″
- Sun: Full Sun to Part Shade
Yellow-Eyed Grass
Other names are golden blue-eyed grass, Sisyrinchium californicum, and golden-eyed-grass.
- Common Name: Yellow-eyed grass
- Scientific Name: Sisyrinchium californicum
- Type: Perennial
- Water: Medium to wet
- Soil PH: 5.0 – 8.0
- Flower Color: Yellow
- Special Characteristics: Showy flowers
- Hardiness Zone(s): 8 to 10
- Height At Maturity: 6-12′
- Sun: Full sun
- Sub Type: Groundcover
Yellow Flag
- Common Name: Yellow flag
- Scientific Name: Iris pseudacorus
- Type: Perennial
- Water: Medium to wet
- Soil PH: 3.6 to 7.7
- Flower Color: Yellow with brown-violet veining on the falls
- Special Characteristics: Deer-resistant, showy flowers, easy-to-grow
- Hardiness Zone(s): 5 to 9
- Height At Maturity: 36-60′
- Sun: Full sun to part shade
- Sub Type: Groundcover
Yellow Wild Indigo
- Common Name: Yellow wild indigo
- Scientific Name: Baptisia sphaerocarpa
- Type: Perennial
- Water: Dry to medium
- Soil PH: 6-7
- Flower Color: Yellow
- Special Characteristics: Attracts butterflies, showy flowers, easy-to-grow
- Hardiness Zone(s): 5 to 8
- Height At Maturity: 24-36′
- Sun: Full sun to part shade
- Sub Type: Groundcover
Yellow Wood Sorrel
Also known as the common yellow woodsorrel, common yellow oxalis, upright yellow-sorrel, lemon clover, or more ambiguously and informally “sourgrass” or “pickle plant”.
- Common Name: Yellow wood sorrel
- Scientific Name: Oxalis stricta
- Type: Annual
- Water: Needs Moderate Moisture
- Soil PH: 4 to 5
- Flower Color: Yellow, white, pink, red, orange
- Special Characteristics: Deer resistant
- Hardiness Zone(s): 5 to 11
- Height At Maturity: 0″ to 12″
- Sun: Partial Shade
- Sub Type: Groundcover
Yellow Coneflower
- Scientific Name: Echinacea paradoxa
- Type: Perennial
- Water: Dry to medium
- Soil PH: 6.6 to 7.8
- Flower Color: Yellow
- Special Characteristics: Deer-resistant, showy flowers, fragrant, easy-to-grow
- Hardiness Zone(s): 5 to 8
- Height At Maturity: 24-36′
- Sun: Full sun
- Sub Type: Groundcover
Yellow-eyed Grass
- Common Name: Yellow-eyed grass
- Scientific Name: Sisyrinchium californicum
- Type: Perennial
- Water: Medium to wet
- Soil PH: 5.0 – 8.0
- Flower Color: Yellow
- Special Characteristics: Showy flowers
- Hardiness Zone(s): 8 to 10
- Height At Maturity: 6-12′
- Sun: Full sun
- Sub Type: Groundcover
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