"Lotus Flower" is a song by the English alternative rock band Radiohead, released on their eighth studio album The King of Limbs (2011). It features singer Thom Yorke's falsetto over syncopated beats and a "propulsive" bass line. Its music video, featuring Yorke's erratic dancing, spawned an internet meme.

Despite not being released as a single, "Lotus Flower" charted on the UK Singles Chart, the Ultratop 50, the US Alternative Songs chart and the US Rock Songs chart. It received positive reviews and was nominated for Best Rock Performance, Best Rock Song, and Best Music Video at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards.

On tour with his band Atoms for Peace, singer Thom Yorke debuted a solo acoustic version of "Lotus Flower" at the Echoplex in Los Angeles on 2 October 2009. Like the rest of The King of Limbs, the song was possibly recorded in the house of actress Drew Barrymore, who is thanked in the album's liner notes.

According to the NME, "Lotus Flower" combines the "keyboard-and-drum machine sound" of Radiohead's fourth album Kid A (2000) with the "sonic warmth" of their seventh album In Rainbows (2007). It features Yorke's "Prince-like"falsetto over syncopated beats and a synthesized "propulsive" bass line. Though the main percussion beat is in 4/4 time, the hand claps are in 5/8 time, creating a metric dissonance. The song has a more traditional song structure than the first half of The King of Limbs; Luke Lewis of the NME described it as "probably the only song on The King of Limbs with an actual chorus", and speculated that the lyrics are about "transcendence, self-effacement", and "the magic of losing yourself in music and the senses".

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