Red and Crimson (Purplish-Red) Flowers
PERENNIALS AND BIENNIALS
SPRING
Aquilegia x hybrida 'Crimson Star,' 'Red and White Music' (hybrid
columbine)
Primula japonica 'Carmina,' 'Miller's Crimson' (Japanese primrose)
Primula x polyantha 'Red' (polyanthus primrose)
Pulsatilla vulgaris rubra (pasque flower)
SUMMER
Achillea millefolium 'Red Beauty' (common yarrow)
Alcea rosea 'Indian Summer' (hollyhock)
Astilbe x arendsii 'Etna,' 'Fanal,' 'Glow,' 'Red Light' (astilbe)
Chrysanthemum coccineum 'Dark Crimson' (painted daisy)
Dianthus barbatus 'Blood Red,' 'Dunnet's Dark Crimson' (sweet
William)
Dianthus deltoides 'Vampire,' 'Zing Red' (maiden pink)
Geum quellyon 'Red Wings' (geum)
Hemerocallis hybrids 'Cranberry Cove,' 'Crimson Shadow,' 'Illini
Red,' 'Reckless,' 'Sir Lancelot' (daylily)
Heuchera sanguinea 'Matin Bells,' 'Mt. St. Helens,' 'Splendens'
(coralbells)
Hibiscus x moscheutos 'Lord Baltimore,' 'Disco Belle Red' (rose
mallow)
Lupinus hybrids 'My Castle,' 'The Pages' (lupine)
Monarda didyma 'Cambridge Scarlet,' 'Gardenview Red' (bee-balm,
oswego tea)
Paeonia lactiflora 'Bonanza,' 'Charm,' 'Chief Justice,' 'Kansas,'
'Karen Grey,' 'President Lincoln,' 'Scarlet O'Hara,' 'Shawnee Chief' (Chinese
peony)
Papaver orientale 'Carmine,' 'Cavalier,' 'Warlord' (Oriental
poppy)
Phlox paniculata 'Othello,' 'Starfire,' 'Tenor' (garden phlox)
Veronica spicata 'Red Fox' (spiked speedwell)
LATE SUMMER AND FALL
Aster novi-belgii x novae-angliae 'Autumn Glory,' 'Crimson
Brocade,' 'Jenny,' 'Red Star' (Michaelmas daisy, fall aster)
Chrysanthemum x morifolium 'Ruby Mound' (garden mum)
Lobelia cardinalis (cardinal flower)
ANNUALS
Amaranthus caudatus 'Love Lies Bleeding' (love-lies-bleeding)
Antirrhinum majus 'Red Rocket,' 'Tahita Red Bicolor' (snapdragon)
Begonia x semperflorens 'Encore Red,' 'Encore Red/Bronze,' 'Bingo
Red,' 'Prelude Scarlet' (wax begonia)
Celosia cristata 'Kimono Red,' 'Centura Red,' 'Fireglow' (cockscomb)
Dahlia x hybrida (annauld ahlia)
Dianthus chinensis 'Ideal Crimson,' 'Oriental,' 'Crimson Charm,'
'Princess Crimson' (China pink)
Eschscholzia califronica 'Cherry Rip' (California poppy)
Gerbera jamesonii 'Rainbow Crimson' (gerbera daisy)
Gomphrena globosa 'Strawberry Fields' (globeflower)
Impatiens wallerana 'Blitz Red,' 'Dazzler Red,' 'Deco Red,'
'Showstopper Red,' 'Super Elfin Red Velvet' (impatiens)
Matthiola incana 'Dwarf Cinderella Red' (stock)
Nicotiana alata 'Domino Red,' 'Nicki Red,' 'Starship Red Improved'
(flowering tobacco)
Papaver rhoeas (corn poppy)
Pelargonium x domesticum (Martha Washington geranium)
Pelargonium x hortorum 'Elite Red,' 'Pinto Red' (zonal geranium)
Petunia x hybrida 'Merlin Red,' 'Picotee Red,' 'Red Dreams,'
'Red Madness,' 'Super Cascade Red,' 'Super Magic Red' (petunia)
Phlox drummondii 'Palona Carmine' (annual phlox)
Salvia coccinea 'Lady in Red'
Salvia splendens 'Empire Red,' 'Red Hot Sally' (red salvia)
Tropaeolum majus 'Empress of India' (nasturtium)
Verbena x hybrida 'Blaze' (verbena)
Viola x wittrockiana 'Universal Red' (pansy)
Zinnia elegans 'Big Red,' 'Peter Pan Flame' (common zinnia)
BULBS
SPRING
Ranunculus asiaticus 'Red Shades,' 'Tecalote Red' (Persian
buttercup)
Tulipa batalinii (Bokhara tulip)
Tulipa linifolia (tulip)
Tulipa greigii 'Red Riding Hood' (greigii tulip)
Tulipa kaufmanniana (water lily tulip)
Tulipa x hybrida 'Bastogne,' 'Couleur Cardinal,' 'General Eisenhower,'
'Red Emperor' (hybrid tulips)
SUMMER
Begonia x tuberhybrida 'Deep Red,' 'Non-stop Red' (tuberous
begonia)
Canna x generalis 'Ambassador,' 'Pfitzer's Crimson Beauty,'
'Red King Humbert' (canna lily)
Gladiolus hybrids 'Red Bird,' 'Red Speldor' (gladiolus)
Lilium 'Red Night,' 'Scarlet Emperor' (Asiatic hybrid lily)
LATE SUMMER AND FALL
Dahlia x pinnata 'Babylon,' 'Rote Funten' (dahlia)
