LEMON GEM FLOWERS Back to Lemon Gem: Besides being a compact mound of dainty greenery, Lemon Gem does indeed bear flowers. Pretty ones. Each flower is half an inch across, single and lemon yellow.

In this June 2, 2014 photo, the small flowers of Lemon Gem marigold, a different species from common marigolds, stare out like stars from a backdrop of ferny foliage in New Paltz, New York.