perennials by season
spring
Ajuga (Bugleweed)
Anemone, some cultivars Baptisia (False Indigo)
Bergenia (Pigsqueak)
Brunnera (Heartleaf Bugloss)
Centaurea (Mountain Bluet)
Dicentra (Bleeding Heart)
Euphorbia, cultivars (Spurges)
Ferns Galium (Sweet Woodruff)
Helleborus (Lenten Rose)
Hepatica (Liverwort)
Heuchera (Coral Bells)
Iberis (Candytuft)
Iris Lamium (Deadnettle)
Lavendula (Lavender)
Lysimachia (Creeping Jenny)
Mertensia (Virginia Bluebells)
Mukdenia Pachysandra (Allegheny Spurge)
Paeonia (Peony)
Phlox sublata (Creeping Phlox)
Podophyllum (Mayapple)
Polemonium (Jacob’s Ladder)
Polygonatum (Solomon’s seal)
Pulmonaria (Lungwort)
Pulsatilla (Pasque Flower)
Sanguinaria (Bloodroot)
Sempervivum (Hens & Chicks)
Thymus (Thyme)
Tiarella (Foam flower)
Tradescantia (Spiderwort)
Trollius (Globeflower)
Vinca (Periwinkle)
summer
Achillea (Yarrow)
Actaea (Snakeroot)
Ajuga (Bugleweed)
Alchemilla (Lady’s Mantel)
Amsonia (Arkansas blue star)
Aquilegia (Columbine)
Artemisia (Wormwood)
Aruncus (Goat’s beard)
Asclepias (Milkweed)
Astilbe (False spirea)
Baptisia (False Indigo)
Brunnera (Heartleaf Bugloss)
Buddleia (Butterfly Bush)
Calamintha (Calamint)
Callirhoe (Purple Poppy Mallow)
Centranthus (Red Valerian)
Centaurea (Mountain Bluet)
Ceratogstigma (Leadwort)
Chelone (Turtlehead)
Clematis (cultivars)
Coreopsis (Tickseed)
Dianthus (Pinks)
Echinacea (Coneflower)
Epimedium (Barrenwort)
Eupatorium (Joe Pye Weed)
Euphorbia (Spurges)
Ferns Filipendula (Queen of the Prairie)
Gaillardia (Blanket Flower)
Geranium, perennial varieties Geum (Avens)
Grasses Hakonechloa (Japanese Forest Grass)
Helenium (Sneezeweed)
Heliopsis (False Sunflower)
Hemerocallis (Daylily)
Heuchera (Coral Bells) Hibiscus
Hosta Lamium (Deadnettle)
Lavendula (Lavender)
Leucanthemum (Daisy)
Liatris (Blazing Star)
Lilium (Asiatic & Oriental Lilies)
Lysimachia (Creeping Jenny)
Monarda (Beebalm, Bergamot)
Mukdenia Nepeta (Catmint)
Oenothera (Evening Primrose)
Pachysandra (Allegheny Spurge)
Paeonia (Peony)
Penstemon (Beardtongue)
Perovskia (Russian sage)
Persicaria (Himalayan Border Jewel)
Phlox Physostegia (Obedient Plant)
Platycodon (Balloon Flower)
Polemonium (Jacob’s Ladder)
Polygonatum (Solomon’s seal)
Pulmonaria (Lungwort)
Ratibida (Mexican Hat)
Rodgersia (Rodger’s Flower)
Rudbeckia (Black-eyed Susan)
Salvia Sedum (Stonecrop)
Sempervivum (Hens & Chicks)
Stachys (Lamb’s Ear)
Thymus (Thyme)
Tiarella (Foam flower)
Tradescantia (Spiderwort)
Trollius (Globeflower)
Veronica (Speedwell)
Vinca (Periwinkle)
Lonicera (Honeysuckle)
Parthenocissus (Boston Ivy)
Parthenocissus (Virginia Creeper)
fall
Aconitum (Monkshood)
Actaea (Snakeroot)
Ajuga (Bugleweed)
Amsonia (Arkansas blue star)
Anemone, some cultivars Artemisia (Wormwood)
Aruncus (Goat’s beard)
Aster Bergenia (Pigsqueak)
Centranthus (Red Valerian)
Baptisia (False Indigo)
Ceratogstigma (Leadwort)
Chelone (Turtlehead)
Chyrsanthemum (beware some are annuals)
Clematis (cultivars)
Coreopsis (Tickseed)
Echinacea (Coneflower)
Eupatorium (Joe Pye Weed)
Euphorbia (Spurges)
Ferns Geranium, perennial varieties Grasses Helenium (Sneezeweed)
Hemerocallis (Daylily)
Heuchera (Coral Bells)
Hibiscus Hosta Lavendula (Lavender)
Lysimachia (Creeping Jenny)
Mukdenia Nepeta (Catmint)
Oenothera (Evening Primrose)
Pachysandra (Allegheny Spurge)
Penstemon (Beardtongue)
Persicaria (Himalayan Border Jewel)
Physostegia (Obedient Plant)
Pulmonaria (Lungwort)
Ratibida (Mexican Hat)
Rudbeckia (Black-eyed Susan)
Salvia auzura (Azure Salvia)
Sedum (Stonecrop)
Sempervivum (Hens & Chicks)
Thymus (Thyme)
Tradescantia (Spiderwort)
Tricyrtis (Toad lily)
Vinca (Periwinkle)
Parthenocissus (Boston Ivy)
Parthenocissus (Virginia Creeper)
winter
Echinacea (Coneflower)
Euphorbia, cultivars (Spurges)
Grasses Helleborus (Lenten Rose)
Lavendula (Lavender)
Lysimachia (Creeping Jenny)
Heuchera (Coral Bells)
Pachysandra (Allegheny Spurge)
Sempervivum (Hens & Chicks)
Thymus (Thyme) Vinca (Periwinkle