Latin name
Common Name |
Flowers |
Color |
Height |
Comments |
Achillea hybrid Moonshine
Fern Leaf Yarrow |
Aug. Sept. |
Yellow |
2 ft. |
Clustered flowers; attractive for border gardens |
Achillea millefolium
Lavender Deb Yarrow |
Aug. Sept. |
Lavender |
2 ft. |
Textured gray-green foliage; performs well in poor soil and
dry conditions |
Achillea millefolium
Paprika Common Yarrow |
Aug. Sept. |
Red/brown |
3 ft. |
Attractive gray-green foliage; performs well in poor soil and
dry conditions |
Allium schoenprasum
Chives |
June Oct. |
Green |
1-2 ft. |
Good accent; culinary uses |
Anemone hupehensis
Prince Henry Anemone |
Aug. Oct. |
Red |
2 ft. |
Semi double flowers; also known as Prinz Heinrich |
Anemone hybrida
Andrea Atkinson Anemone |
Aug. Oct. |
White |
2-3ft. |
Elegant; single pure white flowers |
Anemone Robusrissima
Grapeleaf Anemone |
Aug. Oct. |
Purple-Pink |
2-3 ft. |
Most reliable of all anenomes. Large pink 3" flowers
with dark green foliage |
Anemone hybrida
Anemone |
Aug. Oct. |
Pink |
2 ft. |
Semi-double flowers |
Aster dumosus
Winston Churchill Aster |
Aug. Sept. |
Red & Yellow |
2 ft. |
Raspberry red flowers with yellow center |
Aster novae-angliae
Purple Dome Aster |
Aug. Oct. |
Purple |
18 in. |
Semi-double flowers; good container plant; mildew resistent |
Aster novi-belgii
Professor Kippenburg Dwarf Aster |
Aug. Oct. |
Blue & Yellow |
1 ft. |
Pretty blue flowers with yellow centers; tolerates dry
conditions |
Aster novi-belgii
Persian Rose Dwarf Aster |
Sept. Oct. |
Red |
1 ft. |
Attractive daisy-like flowers; tolerates dry conditions |
Boltonia asteroides
Snowbank Boltonia |
Sept. Oct. |
White |
3-4 ft. |
Spectacular blooms make it a centerpiece |
Boltonia asteroides
Pink Beauty Boltonia |
Sept. Oct. |
Pink / yellow |
4 ft. |
Soft pink flowers with yellow center |
Calamagrotis acutiflora
Overdam Reed Grass |
June frost |
|
3 ft. |
Slender foliage variegated with white; plumes change from
pink to gold as they mature |
Calamagrotis arundincea
Reed Grass |
June frost |
|
2-3 ft. |
Rosy purple plumes; will flower even in shade |
Ceratostigma plumbaginoides
Leadwort |
Sept. Oct. |
Blue |
Varies |
Bright red foliage |
Chelone lyonii
Hot Lips Chelone |
Aug. Sept. |
Pink |
24 in. |
Tubular flowers; dark green foliage; red-toned stems |
Chelone lyonii
Pink Turtlehead Chelone |
Aug. Sept. |
Pink |
24-36 in. |
Likes rich, wet soil; dark green foliage |
Cimicifuga racemosa
Atropurpea Cimicifuga |
Sept. -Oct. |
White |
5-6 ft. |
Purple leaves; graceful, slender racemes; fragrant; tolerates
moist and shady areas |
Cimicifuga simplex
White Pearl Cimicifuga |
Sept. Oct. |
White |
3 ft. |
Attractive arching flower stems; light green foliage |
Dendranthema grandiflora
Sheffield Dendranthema |
Aug. Sept. |
Pink |
3 ft. |
Hardy single flowers; formerly classified as Chrysanthemum |
Dendranthema zawadskii
Clara Curtis Dendranthema |
Aug. Sept. |
Pink & yellow |
2 ft. |
Pink daisy-like flowers with yellow centers; formerly
classified as Chrysanthemum |
Fragaria hybrida
Pink Panda Alpine Strawberry |
April frost |
Red/ pink |
6 in. |
Yellow centered flowers; blooms intermittently; bright green
trifoliate foliage |
Heliopsis helianthoides
Summer Sun Oxeye |
July Oct. |
Gold-yellow |
2 ft. |
Daisy-like semi-double flowers |
Kirengeshoma palmata
Yellow Wax Bells |
Sept. Oct. |
Yellow |
2 ft. |
Purple stems lead up to 1-2"; funnel-shaped flowers |
Lavandula angutifolia "Munstead"
Munstead English Lavender |
Aug. Oct. |
Lilac/blue |
2 ft. |
Lilac/blue flower bloom during second year; fragrant silver
foliage |
Miscanthus gracillimus
Maiden Grass |
Oct. |
|
5-8 ft. |
Has bronze-red inflorescence that turns silver |
Miscanthus sinenses
Variegated Maiden Grass "Morning Light" |
Oct. |
|
4-5 ft. |
Narrow bands of white on leaf margin; plumes are bronze-red
and turn cream colored |
Pennisetum alopeciroides
Little Bunny Grass |
July- Aug. |
|
10-12 in. |
Contrasts well in perennial beds; dark green foliage turns
golden russet in fall |
Pennisetum alopecuroides
Fountain Grass |
Aug. - Oct. |
|
3 ft. |
Gracefully arching leaves with 5-6" flower spikes |
Perovskia atripicifolia
Russian Sage |
July Sept. |
Blue |
3 ft. |
Lavender-blue foliage |
Santolina chamaecyparissus
Lavender Cotton |
Aug. Oct. |
Yellow |
1-2 ft. |
Flowers appear in spring; fragrant silvery-white foliage adds
personality to fall gardens |
Scabiosa columbaria
Pincushion flower "butterfly blue" |
June frost |
Blue |
12-18 in. |
Flowers June to frost; flowers 1 inch across |
Sedum kamtshaticum Variegatum
Variegated Sedum |
Sept. Oct. |
Yellow |
6-9 in. |
Leaves turn from white to pink; pest-resistant and can handle
most soils |
Sedum spurium
Dragons Blood Sedum |
Sept. Oct. |
Red |
4 in. |
Purplish-bronze foliage; pest-resistant and can handle most
soils |
Solidago sphacelata
Golden Fleece Golden Rod |
Aug. -Oct. |
Gold-Yellow |
15 in. |
Bright flowers, arching branches |
Stachys byzantina
Helen von Stein Lambs Ears |
July Sept. |
Lavender |
8-10 in. |
Gray-green wooly leaves |
Stachys byzantina
Silver Carpet Lambs Ears |
July Sept. |
|
12-15 in. |
Grown for striking silver-green foliage |
Tricyrtis hirta
Miyazaki Toad Lilly |
Aug. Oct. |
White/Purple |
2-3 ft. |
White with purple spots; orchid like blooms |