THE APPROPRIATE PERENNIAL PLANT LIST
These plants have lived well in our region and have a modest forgiving nature to varied initial soil conditions. You should come to know which plants may re-seed more aggressively when there are open soil opportunities present. That plant nature can cause too much competition for newly planted, young plants.
Achillea hybrid ‘Hella Glashoff’
Asclepias incarnata
Asclepias verticillata
Allium angulosum ‘Summer Beauty’
Allium hybrid ‘Medusa’
Allium hybrid ‘Millenium’
Allium schoenoprasum ‘Forescate’ and ‘Alba’
Agastache foeniculum ‘Blue Fortune’
Amsonia orientalis ‘Blue Ice’
Amsonia taberneamontana salicifolia
Anemone vitifolia robustissima
Anthericum ramosum
Aruncus hybrid ‘Horatio’
Baptisia hybrid ‘Purple Smoke’
Baptisia leucantha
Baptisia sphaerocarpa and minor
Boltonia hybrid ‘James Crockett’ Bouteloua curtipendula
Cacalia plantaginea
Calamagrostis acutiflora ‘Karl Foerster’
Calamintha nepeta ssp. Nepeta
Coreopsis palmata
Coreopsis verticillata ‘Golden Showers’ and ‘ Zagreb’
Dalea purpurea
Dalea candida
Deschampsia ‘Gold Tau’
Echinacea purpurea ‘Virgin’ ‘Dwarf White Swan’
Echinacea purpurea ‘Prairie Splendor’
Echinacea purpurea ‘Rubin Glow’
Echinacea pallida and simulata
Eupatorium hybrid ‘Little Joe’
Eupatorium hybrid ‘Baby Joe’
Eupatorium fistulosum alba
Gentiana andrewsi
Gentiana flavida
Geranium hybrid ‘Tiny Monster’
Geranium sanguineum ‘Max Frei’ other sanguineum selections
Geranium hybrid ‘Orion’
Geranium sobiliferum
Heliopsis helianthoides, selections ‘Summer Nights’ Inula magnificum
Limonium gmenlinii ssp. hungaricum
Limonium latifolium
Lobelia siphlitica
Lythrum alatum
Molinia caerulea ‘Paul Pederson’ ‘Hiedenbraut’ ‘Moorehexe’
Molinia caerulea ssp. Arundinacea ‘Transparent
Monarda bradburiana
Monarda
Nepeta hybrid ‘Early Bird’
Nepet hybrid ‘Junior Walker’
Nepeta subsessilis
Parthenium integrifolium
Panicum virgatum ‘Northwind’
Panicum virgatum ‘Hieleger Hain’ and ‘Ruby Ribbons’
Panicum ‘Cape Breeze’
Penstemon digitalis ‘Huskers Red’, 'Dark Towers’, ‘Poccahantus’
Perovskia atriplicifolia ssp. and ‘Little Spire’
Phlox hybrid ‘Forever Pink’, ‘Minnie Pearl’, David, Jeana
Rudbeckia ‘Viette’s Little Suzy’ and ‘American Goldrush’
Rudbeckia fulgida ‘sullivantii’
Rudbeckia grandiflora
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
Salvia azurea Salvia x sylvestris ‘East Friesland’
Salvia x sylvestris ‘Wesuwe’
Salvia x sylvestris ‘Blue Hill’
Salvia x sylvestris ‘Snow Hill’
Schizachrium scoparium ‘Little Luke’, ‘Jazz’ and ‘Blue Heaven’
Seslaria autumnalis
Seslaria hybrid ‘John Greenlee’
Silphium mohrii
Silphium terebinthinaceum
Solidago sphaerocephala ‘Golden Fleece’
Solidago ‘Whichita Mountain’
Spodiopogon sibericus
Sporoblolus heterolepis
Sporobolus airoides
Stachys officinalis ‘Hummelo’
Stachys officinalis ‘Rosea’
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium ‘Ocober Skies’
Vernonia lettermanii ‘Iron Butterfly’
Vernonia ‘Southern Cross’
Veronicastrum virginicum
Veronica hybrid ‘Eveline’
Veronica hybrid ‘Good Night Irene’
Veronica hybrid ‘Very Van Gogh’
SEDGES
Carexz montana
Carex albicans
Carex granularis
Carex grisea
Carex bromoides
Carex shortiana
Care leavenworthii
Carex muskingumentsis
Carex flacca
Carex pellita
Carex plantaginea
Carex brevior
Carex remota
Carex sprengelii
Carex stricta
Carex pennsylvanica
SHADE PLANTS This group of plants relates to average 40% shade to 65 to 70% shade.
Aster divaricatus
Aster macrophyllus
Caulophylum thalictroides
Thalictrum dioicum
Heuchera villosa
Dryopteris marginalis
Osmunda claytonia
Polystichum acrostichoides
Pulmonaria longifolia selections
Senecio obovatus
Smilacina racemosa
Syneilesis aconitifolia
Polygonatum commutatum
Hostas
Epimedium
Asarum canadense