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People always ask us what perennials do we have that will grow under certain conditions. We usually have handouts at the nursery we give to people with the lists on them. Now, we're making these available on the web-site.

Common Names
A cross-reference of Common and scientific names.

Allegheny Spurge - Pachysandra
Asian Skunk Cabbage - Lysichitum
Baby's Breath - Gypsophilia
Bachelor Button - Centaurea
Balloon Flower - Platycodon
Bamboo - Pleioblastus
Baneberry - Actea
Barbara's Button - Marshallia
Barron Strawberry - Waldsteinia
Barronwort - Epimedium
Beach Grass - Panicum
Bee Balm - Monarda
Bellflower - Campanula
Black Eyed Susan - Rudbeckia
Bleeding Heart - Dicentra
Bloodroot - Sanguinaria
Blue Eyed Grass - Sisyrinchium
Bluebeard - Clintonia
Bluet - Houstonia
Bowman's Root - Gillenia
Brunet - Sanguisorba
Bugbane - Actea
Butterburr - Petasites
Buttercup - Ranunculus
Cardinal Flower - Lobelia
Cattail - Typha
Catmint - Nepeta
Columbine - Aquilegia
Coneflowers - Echinacea
Coral Bell - Heuchera
Cranesbill - Geranium
Daylily - Hemerocallis
Dog-Toothed Violet - Erythronium
Doll's Eyes - Actea
Dutchman's Pipes - Aristolochia
Evergreen Solomen Seal - Disporopsis
Fairy Bells - Disporum
False Bugbane -Trautuettevia
False Hellebore - Veratrum
False Rue Anemone - Isopyrum
False Solomon Seal - Smilacina
Feather Reed Grass - Calamagrostis
Foam Flower - Tiarella
Forget-Me-Not - Brunnera

Garden Heliotrope - Valeriana
Gas Plan - Dictamnus
Gay Feather - Liatris
Gentian - Gentiana
Ginger - Asarum
Globe Thistle - Ecinops
Globe Flower - Trollius
Goatsbeard - Aruncus
Golden Seal - Hydrastis
Goldenrod - Solidago
Green and Gold - Chrysogonum
Hakone Grass - Hakonechloa
Hardy Candytuft - Iberis
Hens and Chicks - Sempervivum
Honeysuckle - Lonicera
Hops - Humulus
Hyssop - Agastache
Ironweed - Vernonia
Jack-in-the-Pulpit - Arisaema
Jacob's Ladder - Polemonium
Joe-Pye Weed - Eupatorium
Kenilworth Ivy - Cymbalaria
Ladies Mantle - Alchemilla
Ladies Slipper - Cypripedium
Lamb's Ear - Stachys
Larkspur - Delphinium
Lavender - Lavandula
Lenten Rose - Helleborus
Lily of the Valley - Convallaria
Lungwort - Pulmonaria
Marsh marigold - Caltha
May Apple - Podophyllum
Meadow Rue - Thalictrum
Meadow Sweets - Filipendula
Meehan's Mint - Meehania
Merry-Bells - Uvularia
Milkweed - Asclepias
Monk's Hood - Aconitum
Northern Sea Oats - Chasmanthium
Obedient Plant - Physostegia
Onion - Allium
Partridge Berry - Mitchella
Pasque Flower - Pulsatilla
Peony - Paeonia
Periwinkle - Vinca
Pheasant's Eye - Adonis
Pinks - Dianthus
Prickly Pear - Optunia
Primrose - Primula
Pussytoes - Antennaria

Rhubarb - Rheum
Rock Cress - Arabis
Rue Anemone - Anemonella
Rupturewort - Herniara
Russian Sage - Pervoskia
Sea Holly - Eryngium
Sedge - Carex
Shooting Stars - Dodecatheon
Snakeroot - Cimicifuga
Sneezeweed - Helenium
Solomon Seal - Polygonatum
Southern Mountain Mint - Pycnanthemum
Speedwell - Veronica
Spiderwort - Tradescantia
Spurge - Euphorbia
Stoke's Aster - Stokesia
Stoncrop - Sedum
Strawberry - Fragaria
Sunflower - Helianthus
Swamp Pink - Helonias
Sweetflag- Acorus
Sweet Woodruff - Galium
Tansy - Tanacetum
Thyme - Thymus
Toadlilies - Tricyrtus
Trout Lily - Erythronium
Trumpet Vine - Campsis
Turkish Candytuft - Aethionema
Turtlehead - Chelone
Twinleaf - Jeffersonia
Two Leaved Solomom Seal
Umbrella Bamboo- Fargesia
Umbrella Leaf - Diphylleia
Violet - Viola
Virginia Blue Bells - Mertensia
Virginia Creeper - Parthenocissus
Wandflower - Galax
Waterleaf - Hydrophyllum
Wild Petunia - Ruellia
Willow - Salix
Wood rush - Luzula
Yarrow - Achillea
Yellow Star Grass - Hypoxis

Native Perennials
A list of perennials native to North America.

Achillea - Rockies
Acorus - North America
Actea alba - Northeast America
Actea americana and Actea racemosa - Eastern United States
Agastache - Central United States
Allium cernuum - West Coast
Amsonia - Southeast United States
Anemone canadensis - Eastern United States
Anemonella - Eastern United States
Arctanthemum - Alaska
Arisaema dracontium - Southest
Arisaema triphyllum - Northeast
Artemisia stelleriana - Northeast
Aruncus dioicus - Southeastern States
Asarum arifolium - Southeast
Asarum canadense - Northeast
Asarum caudatum - Western States
Asarum naniflorum - Carolinas
Asclepias incarnata - Eastern States
Aster alpigenus - Western States
Aster divaricatus, Aster dumosus, Aster ericoides, Aster laevis, Aster laterforus, Aster macrophyllus - Eastern States
Aster novae-angliae, Aster novi-belgii, Aster umbellatus - Eastern States
Aster oblongifolius - Central United States
Baptisia - Southern States
Boltonia - Eastern States
Calamagrostis - Central States
Callirhoe - Southeast
Caltha palustris - Northeast
Caltha palustris ssp palustris - Western States
Campsis - Texas
Cardimine - Central States
Cassia - Central States
Caulophyllum - Northeast
Chasmantium - Central United States
Chelone - Eastern States
Chrysogonum - Eastern States
Clintonia borealis - Northeast
Coreopsis - Eastern States
Cypripedium parviflorum, Cypripedium pubescens -

Eastern States
Echinacea - Central StatesDarmera - Western States
Delphinium tricorne - Eastern States
Dicentra canadense, Dicentra cucullaria - Eastern United States
Diphylleia cymosa - Southeast
Disporum hookeri - Western States
Disporum langinosum - Eastern States
Dodecatheon meadia - Eastern States (all others West Coast)
Erythronium albidum - Eastern States
Eupatorium - Central and Eastern States
Ferns - most Eastern States (Athyrium niponicum and Dryopteris remota are Asian)
Filipendula kamtschatica - Alaska
Galax - East Central States
Gentiana clausa - middle United States
Geranium maculatum - Eastern United States
Gillenia - Eastern States
Helianthus - Eastern States
Helonias - Northeast
Hepatica acutiloba - Northeast
Heuchera - East States
Hibiscus - Eastern States
Houstonia - East States
Humulus - Central States
Hydrastis - Northeast
Hydrophyllum - Central States
Hypoxis - Central States
Iris cristata - Eastern States
Iris virginica - Eastern States
Isopyrum - Southeast
Jeffersonia diphylla - Eastern States
Lewisia - Western Mountains
Liatris - Central and Eastern States
Lobelia - Eastern States
Lonicera sempervirens - East States
Maiamthemum canadense - Northeast
Marshallia - Eastern States
Meehania - Central States
Mitchella - Northeast
Monarda - Eastern States
Opuntia - North America

Pachysandra procumbens - Eastern States
Panicum - Central States
Parthenocissus - Northeast
Penstemon - West Central States
Phlox - Central and Eastern States
Physostegia - Central States
Podophyllum peltatum - Eastern States
Polemonium caeruleum - Western States
Polemonium reptans - Central States
Polygonatum biflorum, Polygonatum pubescens, Polygonatum canaliculatum - Eastern States
Pycnanthemum - Southeast
Ratibida - Central States
Rudbeckia - Eastern States
Ruellia - South Central States
Sanguinaria - Eastern States
Sanguisorba canadensis - Northeast
Sedum nevii, Sedum ternatum - Southeast
Silphium - Southeast
Sisrinchium - Eastern States
Smilacina racemosa - Northeast
Smilacina stellata - Southeast
Solidago cutleri - Northeast
Stokesia - Southeast
Talinum - Midwest States
Thermopsis - Central States
Tiarella - Northeast
Trillium - East States (except Trillium camtshaticum and smallii - Japan)
Uvularia - East States
Veratrum viride - Eastern States
Vernonia - Eastern States
Veronicastrum - Eastern States
Viola labradorica, Viola pedata - Eastern states
Waldsteinia - North America
Wisteria macrostachya - Central States

Perennials For Butterflies
A list of perennials for butterfly lovers.

These plants attract butterflies by providing food for adults or larvae.
Achillea
Agastache
Artcanthemum
Armeria
Asclepias
Aster
Astilbe 'Peach Blossom', Astilbe 'Drayton's Glory'
Boltonia

Calamintha
Chrysanthemum
Coreopsis
Echinacea
Eupatorium
Helenium
Liatris
Monarda
Nepeta
Penstemon
Perovskia
Phlox
Pycnanthemum

Rudbeckia
Sedum
Silphium
Stokesia
Vernonia
Veronica
Veronicastrum

Perennials for Dry Sun
A list of perennials that will thrive in dry/sunny conditions.

These plants do not require a lot of water and will withstand drier conditions. It usually takes about six weeks for these plants to get established and they should be watered at least a few times a week during this period. These plants all need at least six hours of direct sun a day.
Achillea
Allium
Amsonia
Antennaria
Arctanthemum
Artemisia
Aster
Baptisia
Coreopsis
Dianthus

Echinacea
Genista
Geranium cantabrigiense, Geranium macrorrhizum
Gysophilia
Helianthus
Hemerocallis
Inula
Jovibarda
Lewisia
Nepeta

Opuntia
Panicum
Paeonia
Penstemon
Rudbeckia
Ruellia
Sedum
Sempervivum
Silphium
Vernonia

Perennials for Moist Shade
A list of perennials that will thrive in moist/shady conditions.

These plants ot require a lot of water and will not withstand drier conditions for very long. These plants all require less than six hours of direct sun a day.
Aruncus
Astilbe
Astiloides
Caltha (light shade)
Chelone
Darmera
Diphyllea

Eupatorium
Filipendula (light shade)
Helonias (light shade0
Ligularia
Lysichitum
Petasites
Pinella
Rodgersia
Trollius (light shade)

Veratrum
Ferns
Matteuccia
Osmunda regali

Perennials for Moist Sun
A list of perennials that will thrive in moist/sunny conditions.

These plants ot require a lot of water and will not withstand drier conditions for very long. These plants all need at least six hours of direct sun a day.
Asclepias incarnata
Astilbe
Caltha
Chelone

Eupatorium
Trollius
Filpendula
Helonias

Iris ensata
Iris virginica
Monarda
Persicaria

Perennials for Troughs
A list of perennials that will thrive in troughs.

Achillea sp. Utah
Allium flaven ssp taricum, Allium saxatile, Alliumglaucum, Allium senescens 'Pink Pepper', Allium virgunulae
Androsacae
Anemonella
Antennaria
Arabis
Armeria girardii, Armeria 'Victor Reitor'
Asarum arifolium, Asarum caulescens, Asarum seiboldii, Astilbe 'Yakushima'
Bellium
Cymbalaria aquetriloba
Dianthus
Epimedium diphyllum, Epimedium grandiflorum 'Nanum', Epimedium youngianum 'Liliputian'
Erysimum
Gentiama

Globularia
Gypsophilia
Hepatica
Hernaria
Hosta (6" X 6" or smaller)
Houstonia
Hutchinsia
Jovibarda
Lewisia
Lysimachia japonicum
Mitchella
Penstemon procerus
Phlox 'Isaac', Phlox 'Marsha', Phlox 'Olivia', Phlox Tiny Bugles

Polygonatum hookerii
Saponaria
Saxifraga
Sedum acre 'Minor'
Sempervivum
Serratula
Stachys minor, Stachys officinalia 'Dwarf White'
Talinum
Thymus
Viola pedata

Perennials Under Maples
A list of perennials that will thrive under maple trees.

Ajuga
Alchemilia
Amsonia - light shade
Disporum
Epimedium
Galium
Hosta (will be half to two-thirds size)
Ixeris

Lamastrum
Pachysandra
Polygonatum
Sedium spurium (light shade)
Smilacina
Tiarella
Uvularia

Viola
Ferns
Athyrium nipponicum
Dennstaedtia
'Branford Beauty'
'Branford Rambler'
'Ghost'