Red flowers
Roses, poppies, hibiscus, flame trees and tulips.
CactusCactaceae
Succulent plants with spines, native to the Americas
🇲🇽 Mexico and 7 more · Wildflower
Pelargonium
A diverse group of flowering plants often grown as garden and house plants
🇿🇦 South Africa and 7 more · Garden flower
Lampranthus
A succulent with large, vivid flowers from southern Africa
🇳🇦 Namibia and 1 more · Wildflower
Kalanchoe blossfeldiana
A compact succulent with bright winter blooms from Madagascar
🇲🇬 Madagascar and 1 more · Garden flower
Cape aloeAloe ferox
A tall, spiny aloe from southern Africa with orange-red flowers and medicinal uses
🇱🇸 Lesotho · Wildflower
Mammillaria
A diverse group of small, rounded cacti with funnel-shaped flowers
🇲🇽 Mexico and 5 more · Wildflower
Spiral aloeAloe polyphylla
A rare mountain succulent with leaves arranged in a perfect spiral
🇱🇸 Lesotho and 1 more · Cactus or succulent
Impala lilyAdenium multiflorum
A winter-flowering succulent tree of southern Africa with a poisonous milky sap
Adenium multiflorum · Cactus or succulent
Crown of thornsEuphorbia milii
A spiny flowering shrub with red, pink, or white bracts, native to Madagascar
🇲🇬 Madagascar and 5 more · Wildflower
SaguaroCarnegiea gigantea
The towering cactus of the Sonoran Desert with white flowers and red fruit
🇺🇸 United States and 1 more · Wildflower
Desert roseAdenium obesum
A succulent shrub with bright pink to red flowers and a swollen base
🇲🇷 Mauritania and 7 more · Wildflower
Candelabra aloeAloe arborescens
A large, branching aloe with red-orange flowers and spiky green leaves
🇿🇦 South Africa and 8 more · Wildflower
Gymnocalycium
Low-growing South American cacti with bright, funnel-shaped flowers
🇦🇷 Argentina and 4 more · Wildflower
Hedgehog cactusEchinocereus
Small ribbed cacti with bright flowers and edible fruit from the US and Mexico
🇺🇸 United States and 1 more · Wildflower
Kingcup cactusEchinocereus triglochidiatus
A mound-forming cactus with bright scarlet to orange-red flowers
🇺🇸 United States and 1 more · Wildflower
Rose mossPortulaca grandiflora
A low, colourful succulent with bright flowers for sunny gardens and containers
🇧🇷 Brazil and 3 more · Garden flower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Pelargonium: Krzysztof Golik, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Rose moss: Laogooli, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Lampranthus: Bilby, CC BY 3.0, source
- Kalanchoe blossfeldiana: বাক্যবাগীশ, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Cape aloe: iNaturalist.org (Di Turner) (Di%20Turner), CC0, source
- Mammillaria: Stickpen, Public domain, source
- Cactus: G. Mütrel, Leipzig ; Berlin ; Wien : F.A. Brockhaus, Public domain, source
- Spiral aloe: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Impala lily: Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Crown of thorns: Ezra Katz, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Saguaro: Tyrv, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Desert rose: ZSM, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Candelabra aloe: Ton Rulkens, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Gymnocalycium: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Hedgehog cactus: Michael Wolf, CC BY 2.5, source
- Kingcup cactus: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, source