Orlaya

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Orlaya grandiflora Sturm34.jpg

|image_caption = Orlaya grandiflora
Illustration by Johann Georg Sturm,
in his Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen, 1796

|display_parents = 3

|taxon = Orlaya

|authority = Hoffm.

}}

File:Orlaya grandiflora MHNT.BOT.2012.10.25.JPG]]

Orlaya is a genus of flowering plants from Europe in the family Apiaceae, with between 1 and 11 species.{{cite web | url= http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=orlaya

| title= Orlaya | publisher= The Plant List | accessdate = 14 April 2018}} They are annuals with finely-divided leaves, and umbels of lacy pink or white flowers. O. grandiflora, white laceflower, is well-known and widely cultivated as an ornamental in the UK and elsewhere. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.{{cite web | url= https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/24959/i-Orlaya-grandiflora-i/Details

| title = RHS Plantfinder - Orlaya grandiflora | accessdate= 14 April 2018}}{{cite web

| url= https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/pdfs/agm-lists/agm-ornamentals.pdf | title = AGM Plants - Ornamental | date = July 2017

| page = 70 | publisher = Royal Horticultural Society | accessdate = 14 April 2018}}

The following species are currently accepted:-

• Orlaya daucorlaya Murb.
• Orlaya grandiflora (L.) Hoffm.
• Orlaya kochii Heywood
• Orlaya topaliana Beauverd