Perennials & Grasses for Dry Sites

Dry Sun

Perennials

  • Achillea (Yarrow)
  • Agastache (Hyssop)
  • Armeria (Sea Thrift)
  • Artemisia (Wormwood)
  • Asclepias (Butterfly Weed)
  • Baptisia (False Indigo)
  • Centaurea (Corn Flower)
  • Cerastium (Snow in Summer)
  • Ceratostigma (Plumbago)
  • Coreopsis (Tickseed)
  • Delosperma (Hardy Ice Plant)
  • Echinacea (Cone Flower)
  • Echinops (Globe Thistle)
  • Euphorbia (Spurge)
  • Gaillardia (Blanket Flower)
  • Gaura (Wand Flower)
  • Gypsophila (Baby’s Breath)
  • Helianthus (Sunflower)
  • Heliopsis (False Sunflower)
  • Iberis (Candytuft)
  • Kniphofia (Red Hot Poker)
  • Knautia
  • Lavandula (Lavender)
  • Leucanthemum (Shasta Daisy)
  • Liatris (Gayfeather)
  • Malva (Hollyhocks)
  • Nepeta (Catmint)
  • Oenothera (Evening Primrose)
  • Papaver (Poppy)
  • Penstemon (Beard Tongue)
  • Perovskia (Russian Sage)
  • Rudbeckia (Black-eyed Susan)
  • Salvia (Sage)
  • Saponaria (Soapwort)
  • Scabiosa (Pincushion Flower)
  • Sedum (Stonecrop)
  • Sempervivum (Hens & Chicks)
  • Stachys (Lamb’s Ear)
  • Stokesia (Stoke’s Aster)
  • Thymus (Thyme)
  • Veronica spicata (Speedwell)
  • Yucca

Grasses

  • Festuca (Fescue Grass)
  • Helictotrichon (Oat Grass)
  • Pennisetum (Fountain Grass)
  • Schizachyrium (Little Bluestem)
Dry Shade

Perennials

  • Bergenia (Heartleaf Bergenia)
  • Convallaria (Lily of the Valley)
  • Epimedium (Barrenwort)
  • Galium (Sweet Woodruff)
  • Heuchera (Coral Bells)
  • Heucherella (Foamy Bells)
  • Hosta (Plantain Lilies)
  • Phlox divaricata (Woodland Phlox)
  • Pulmonaria (Lungwort)
  • Tiarella (Foamflower)

Grasses

  • Carex (Sedge)