Perennials for Shade

All plants listed here will grow well in partially shaded locations. Those that prefer or will tolerate deep shade are marked (S). Those that can tolerate dry shaded areas, which are among the most challenging of garden sites, are marked (DS). Aconitum - Monkshood Hemerocallis - Daylily (DS) Aegopodium - Bishop's Weed (S) Hosta - Plantain Lily (S & DS) Ajuga - Bugleweed Iberis - Candytuft Alchemilla - Lady's Mantle Iris kaempferi - Japanese Iris Anaphalis triplinervis - Pearly Everlasting (DS) Iris cristata - Crested Iris Anemone - Windflower Lamiastrum - Yellow Archangel Aquilegia - Columbine Lamium maculatum - Deadnettle (DS) Aruncus - Goatsbeard Lewisia - Bitterroot (DS) Astilbe - False Heather Ligularia - Senecio Aubrieta - Rock Cress Lilium - Lily Baptisia - False Indigo Lobelia cardinalis - Cardinal Flower Bergenia - Heartleaf Bergenia Lunaria annua - Money Plant Brunnera macrophylla - Heartleaf Brunnera (S Lupins - Lupine Campanula - Bellflower Lysimachia spp - Loosestrife Centranthus ruber - Jupiter's Beard Lythrum - Purple Loosestrife Ceratostigmal pumbaginoides- Mertensia virginica - Virginia Bluebells (S) Plumbago, Leadwort Monarda - Bee Balm Cheiranthus cheiri - English Wallflower Myosotis - Forget-Me-Not Chrysogonum - Golden Star (S) Papaver nudicaule - Iceland Poppy Cimcifuga - Bugbane (S) Phlox divaricata - Wild Blue Phlox Convallaria majalis - Lily-of-the-Valley (S & DS) Phlox maculata - Wild Sweet William Corydalis - Yellow Bleeding Heart Phlox stolonifera - Creeping Phlox Dicentra - Bleeding Heart Physostegia - Obedient Plant Digitalis - Foxglove Platycodon - Balloon Flower Eupatorium fistulosum - Joe Pye Weed Polemonium - Knotweed Fern species Primula - Primrose Filipendula - Meadowsweet Pulmonaria - Lungwort Galium odorata - Sweet Woodruff Pulsatilla - Pasque Flower (DS) Gaultheria procumbens - Teaberry Rodgersia -Rodgersia Gaura lindheimeri - White Gaura Rudbeckia - Coneflower Geranium - Cranesbill Geranium (DS) Sidalcea - Minature Hollyhock Geum - Avens Stachys byzantina - Lamb's Ear (DS) Helleborus - Lenten Rose Tiarella - Foam Flower Heuchera - Coral Bells Tradescantia - Spiderwort Heucherella - Foamy Bells Tricyrtis - Toad Lily Veronica - Speedwell