Perennial list

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PERENNIALS
Recommended for Pender County Landscapes
Pender County Cooperative Extension Urban Horticulture Leaflet 8

Underlined plants are extremely drought-tolerant once established

*Indicates a plant native to SE USA

PERENNIALS FOR SHADE
Common Name Bear’s Breeches Carpet Bugle Eastern Columbine* Italian Arum Cast Iron Plant Japanese Painted Fern Hardy Begonia Hardy Orchid Green and Gold* Holly Fern Autumn Fern Botanical Name Acanthus species and hybrids Ajuga reptans Aquilegia canadensis Arum italicum Aspidistra elatior Athyrium nipponicum Begonia grandis Bletilla striata Chrysogonum virginianum Cyrtomium falcatum Dryopteris erythrosa Water Use Zone 1,2 1,2 1,2,3 1,2 1,2,3 1,2 1,2 1,2 1,2 1,2,3 1,2 ‘Pictum’ Recommended Varieties ‘Summer Beauty’ Height 3 – 4 ft 4 – 8 in 2-3 ft 1 – 2 ft 2 – 3 ft 18 in 15 in 8 - 12 in 8 – 12 in 18 – 24 in 18 – 24 in Color Pu B,W,Pu R/Y Foliage Foliage Foliage P P,W Y Foliage Foliage Summer Spring Spring Evergreen Evergreen Time of Bloom Summer Spring Spring Winter Evergreen Exposure Light to Part Shade Light to Full Shade Light to Part Shade Light to Full Shade Part to Full Shade Light to Full Shade Light to Full Shade Light to Part Shade Light to Full Shade Part to Full Shade Part to Full Shade Soil Moist to Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Well Drained Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Well Drained Well Drained

Perennials for Shade—continued
Water Use Zone 1,2 1,2 1,2,3 1,2 1,2,3 1,2.3 1,2 1,2 1,2 1,2,3 1,2 1,2 1,2,3 1,2 1,2 1,2 1,2 1,2 ‘Aurea’ Many Available Recommended Varieties Time of Bloom

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Common Name Southern Shield Fern* Fairy Wings Robb’s Spurge Lenten Rose American Alumroot* Hosta Leopard Plant Creeping Jenny Woodland Phlox* Variegated Solomon’s Seal Christmas Fern* Tassel Fern Sacred Lily Strawberry Begonia Arborvitae Fern Indian Pink* Foam Flower* Toad Lily

Botanical Name Dryopteris ludoviciana Epimedium x versicolor Euphorbia robbiae Helleborus x hybridus Heuchera americana Hosta species and hybrids Ligularia tussilaginea Lysimachia nummularia Phlox divaricata Polygonatum odoratum ‘Variegatum’ Polystichum acrostichiodes Polystichum polyblepharum Rhodea japonica Saxifraga stolonifera Selaginella braunii Spigelia marilandica Tiarella hybrids Tricyrtis formosana

Height 3 ft 12 in 12 – 24 in 12-15 in 8 – 12 in 1-3 ft 18 – 24 in 2 in 8 – 12 in 18 – 24 in 12 – 18 in 18 in 12 – 24 in 12 in 12 in 12 – 18 in 12 in 12 – 24 in

Color Foliage Y Y W,P,L W,P,R Foliage Y Foliage B,W,L W Foliage Foliage Foliage W Foliage R/Y W W/Pu/L

Spring Spring Winter/ Spring Spring Spring/ Summer Fall Evergreen Spring Spring Evergreen Evergreen Evergreen Spring Evergreen Spring Spring Fall

Exposure Part to Full Shade Light to Full Shade Light to Part Shade Part to Full Shade Light to Full Shade Part to Full Shade Part to Full Shade Light to Full Shade Light to Part Shade Light to Full Shade Part to Full Shade Part to Full Shade Light to Full Shade Light to Full Shade Part to Full Shade Light to Part Shade Light to Part Shade Light to Part Shade

Soil Moist to Well Drained Well Drained Well Drained Well Drained Well Drained Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Well Drained Well Drained Moist to Well Drained

PERENNIALS FOR SUN
Common Name Yarrow Anise Hyssop Arkansas Blue Star* Blue Star* Texas Firecracker* ‘Powis Castle’ Artemisia Butterfly Weed* Swamp Milkweed* Heath Aster* Smooth Aster* New England Aster* Aromatic Aster* Tartarian Aster Botanical Name Achillea millefolium Agastache foeniculum Amsonia hubrichtii Amsonia tabernaemontana Anisacanthus wrightii Artemisia x ‘Powis Castle’ Ascelpias tuberosa Asclepias incarnata Aster ericoides Aster laevis Aster novae-angliae Aster oblongifolius Aster tartaricus Baptisia australis Baptisia alba Baptisia sphaerocarpa Baptisia hybrids Boltonia asteroides Callirhoe involucrata Canna hybrids Water Use Zone 1,2,3 1,2,3 1,2,3 1,2,3 2,3 2,3 1,2,3 1,2 1,2,3 1,2 1,2 1,2,3 1,2 ‘Cinderella’ ‘Ice Ballet’ ‘Monte Cassino’ ‘Pink Star’ ‘Bluebird’ ‘Purple Dome’ ‘Fanny’ ‘October Skies’ ‘Jin Dai’ ‘Carolina Moonlight’ ‘Purple Smoke’ ‘Blue Fortune’ Recommended Varieties Height 2 - 3 ft 2 – 3 ft 3 – 4 ft 3 – 4 ft 3 – 4 ft 2 – 3 ft 1-2 ft 3 ft 2 – 4 ft 3 ft 18 in 2 – 4 ft 3 – 4 ft Color W,P,Y,O B B B R Foliage O,Y W,P W,P B P B,P L Time of Bloom Summer Summer Spring Spring Summer, Fall Evergreen Summer Summer Fall Summer Fall Fall Fall Exposure Sun Sun Sun Sun to Part Shade Sun Sun Sun Sun to Part Shade Sun Sun to Light Shade Sun Sun Sun Sun/Partial Shade Sun Sun Sun to Part Shade

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Soil Well Drained to Xeric Well Drained Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Well Drained Well Drained to Xeric Well Drained to Xeric Moist to Well Drained Well Drained to Xeric Moist to Well Drained Well Drained Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Well Drained to Xeric Moist to Well Drained

False Wild Indigo*

1,2,3

2 - 3ft

B,W,Y,L

Spring

White Boltonia* Wine Cups, Poppy Mallow* Canna Lily

1,2 2,3 1,2

‘Snowbank’

4 ft 1 ft

W P P,R,O,Y

Fall Spring Summer

Many Available

2 – 6 ft

Perennials for Sun—continued
Water Use Zone 1,2,3 1,2 1,2 1,2 1,2 1,2,3 1,2,3 2,3 1,2,3 1,2,3 ‘Bravado’ ‘Kim’s Knee High’ ‘White Swan’ ‘Magnus’ ‘Bath’s Pink’ ‘Firewitch’ ‘Greystone’ ‘Golden Showers’ ‘Zagreb’ ‘May Queen’ ‘Becky’ ‘Nana’ Recommended Varieties Time of Bloom Fall Fall Summer Spring Spring, Summer Summer Summer Spring Spring Summer

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Common Name Leadwort Turtlehead* Shasta Daisy Mouse Ear Coreopsis* Tickseed, Coreopsis* Threadleaf Coreopsis* Crinum Lily Hardy Ice Plant Cheddar Pinks, Dianthus Hummingbird Plant

Botanical Name Ceratostigma plumbaginoides Chelone glabra Chelone obliqua Chrysanthemum x superbum Coreopsis auriculata Coreopsis grandiflora Coreopsis lanceolata Coreopsis verticillata Crinum species and hybrids Delosperma cooperi Delosperma nubigenum Dianthus gratianopolitanus Dicliptera suberecta

Height 12 in 2 – 3 ft 2 – 3 ft 1 – 2 ft 1-3 ft 1 - 2 ft 2 – 4 ft 6 in 8 – 12 in 12 – 18 in

Color B W,P W Y Y Y W,P P,Y W,P O

Exposure Sun to Part Shade Sun to Part Shade Sun to Part Shade Sun to Part Shade Sun to Part Shade Sun Sun to Part Shade Sun Sun Sun Sun/Partial Shade Sun to Light Shade Sun Sun Sun Sun to Part Shade

Soil Moist to Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Well Drained to Xeric Well Drained to Xeric Well Drained

Purple Coneflower*

Echinacea purpurea Eupatorium fistulosum Eupatorium dubium Eupatorium maculatum

1,2,3

3-5 ft

P,W

Summer

Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Well Drained to Xeric Well Drained to Xeric Well Drained Well Drained

Joe Pye Weed*

1,2 1,2,3 2,3 2,3 1,2 ‘Goblin’ ‘Fanfare’ ‘So White’ ‘Pink Cloud’

4 – 6 ft 1 - 2 ft 2 – 3 ft 12 in 1 ft

P Y,R,O W,P P, W P,R,O,Y, W

Fall Summer/ Fall Summer Summer Spring Summer

Blanket Flower, Gaillardia Gaillardia x grandiflora Gaura* Bloody Cranesbill Gerber Daisy Gaura lindheimeri Geranium sanguineum Gerbera jamesonii

Perennials for Sun—continued
Water Use Zone 2,3 1,2 1,2 1,2 1,2 1,2,3 2,3 1,2 1,2 1,2,3 1,2,3 1,2 1,2,3 1,2 1,2,3 1,2,3 1,2 ‘Anne Arundel’ ‘Blue River II” ‘Moy Grande’ ‘Summer Sun’ ‘Ballerina’ Many Available Recommended Varieties Time of Bloom Summer Summer Fall Fall Summer Summer Summer Summer Summer Fall Spring Spring Spring Spring Spring Summer Summer Summer

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Common Name Mexican Firebush Hardy Ginger Lily Swamp Sunflower* ‘Lemon Queen’ Perennial Sunflower False Sunflower* Daylily Red False Aloe Hardy Hibiscus* Confederate Rose St. Joseph’s Lily, Hardy Amaryllis Evergreen Candytuft Japanese Iris Bearded Iris Siberian Iris Japanese Aster Red Hot Poker Seashore Mallow*

Botanical Name Hamelia patens Hedychium species and hybrids Helianthus angustifolius Helianthus x ‘Lemon Queen’ Heliopsis helianthoides Hemerocallis species and hybrids Hesperaloe parviflora Hibiscus moscheutos Hibiscus coccineus Hibiscus hybrids Hibiscus mutabilis Hippeastrum x johnsonii Iberis sempervirens Iris ensata Iris hybrids Iris sibirica Kalimeris pinnatifida Kniphofia species and hybrids Kosteletzkya virginica

Height 3 – 4 ft 4 – 6 ft. 6 ft 4 – 5 ft 2 – 4 ft 1-4 ft 3 – 4 ft 4 – 5 ft 5 – 6 ft 15 in 12 in 3 ft 3 ft 2-4 ft 2 ft 2-4 ft 4 – 5 ft

Color R W,Y,O, Y Y Y Y,O,R,W, P R R,P,W P R W Pu,L,W P,O,Y,W, L,Pu, W,Y, B, Pu, L W R,O,Y P,W

Exposure Sun Sun to Part Shade Sun to Light Shade Sun to Light Shade Sun to Part Shade Sun/Partial Shade Sun Sun to Light Shade Sun to Light Shade Sun to Part Shade Sun to Part Shade Sun to Part Shade Sun to Light Shade Sun to Part Shade Sun to Light Shade Sun Sun to Par Shade

Soil Well Drained to Xeric Moist to Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Well Drained to Xeric Moist to Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Well Drained Well Drained Moist Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Well Drained Well Drained Moist to Well Drained

Perennials for Sun—continued
Water Use Zone 2,3 Recommended Varieties ‘Miss Huff’ ‘Tangerine’ ‘New Gold’ ‘Radiation’ Many Available Time of Bloom

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Common Name Lantana

Botanical Name Lantana camara Lantana montevidensis Lantana hybrids

Height 2 – 4 ft

Color

Exposure Sun Sun to Part Shade Sun to Part Shade Sun to Light Shade Sun to Part Shade Sun Sun to Part Shade Sun to Light Shade Sun to Part Shade Sun to Part Shade Sun to Light Shade

Soil Well Drained to Xeric Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Well Drained Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Well Drained Well Drained Well Drained

W,L,P,Y, Summer to O,R Fall W,R,O,P, Y R R Y L W,P,L W,P,L,B Y Y W,P,Pu R,P,W,Pu B,Pu Pu B B,P Summer Fall Summer Fall Summer Summer Spring Summer Summer Summer

Asiatic and Oriental Lilies Lilium hybrids Cardinal Flower* Sleeping Hibiscus, Turk’s Cap Patrinia Russian Sage Garden Phlox* Moss Pinks, Thrift* Rudbeckia, Orange Coneflower* Green Headed Coneflower* Dwarf Mexican Petunia Autumn Sage Anise Sage Mexican Bush Sage ‘Indigo Spires’ Sage Pincushion Flower Lobelia cardinalis Malvaviscus drummondii Patrinia scabiosifolia Perovskia species and hybrids Phlox paniculata Phlox subulata Rudbeckia fulgida Rudbeckia laciniata Ruellia brittoniana ‘Katie’ Salvia greggii Salvia microphylla and hybrids Salvia guaranitica Salvia leucantha Salvia x ‘Indigo Spires’ Scabiosa columbaria

1,2 1,2 1,2,3 1,2 1,2,3

2 – 4 ft 3 ft 3 – 4 ft 4 – 5 ft 3 – 4 ft

1,2 1,2,3 1,2,3 1,2 1,2,3 1,2,3 1,2 1,2,3 1,2,3 1,2,3

‘Robert Poore’ ‘David’ ‘Laura’ Many Available ‘Goldsturm’

3 – 4 ft 6 – 12 in 3 ft 3 – 4 ft 6 in 2 – 4 ft

Spring and Sun to Light Fall Shade Summer Fall Summer Spring Sun to Part Shade Sun Sun to Part Shade Sun to Light Shade

‘Black and Blue’ ‘San Carlos Festival’

3 – 4 ft 3 – 5 ft 3 – 4 ft

‘Butterfly Blue’ ‘Pink Mist’

18 in

Perennials for Sun—continued
Water Use Zone 1,2,3 2,3 2,3 1,2,3 1,2,3 2,3 1,2 1,2 1,2,3 1,2 1,2 1,2 Recommended Varieties ‘Matrona’ ‘Autumn Fire’ ‘Blue Spruce’ ‘Murale’ Time of Bloom Fall Spring Spring Summer

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Common Name Sedum Stonecrops Hen and Chicks Purple Heart ‘Fireworks’ Goldenrod* Lamb’s Ear Stokes Aster* Carolina Lupine* Verbena* Creeping Veronica Speedwell Rain Lily

Botanical Name Sedum hybrids Sedum reflexum Sedum album Sedum tetractinum Sempervivum tectorum Setcreasia pallida Solidago rugosa ‘Fireworks’ Stachys byzantina Stokesia laevis Thermopsis caroliniana Verbena canadensis Veronica peduncularis Veronica spicata Zephyranthes species and hybrids

Height 2 –3 ft 6 – 8 in 6 – 12 in 12 – 15 in

Color P, R W,Y Y Pu

Exposure Sun to Light Shade Sun Sun

Soil Well Drained Well Drained to Xeric Well Drained to Xeric Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Moist to Well Drained Well Drained Well Drained Moist to Well Drained

Sun to Light Shade Sun to Part 1-3 ft Y Fall Shade Sun to Light ‘Helene Von Stein’ 2 ft Foliage Evergreen Shade Sun to Part Several Available 1 –2 ft B, L, W, Y Summer Shade Sun to Part 3 – 4 ft Y Spring Shade ‘Homestead Purple’ Spring and Sun to Light 8 – 12 in W,B,L,P ‘Snowflurry’ Summer Shade Sun to Part ‘Georgia Blue’ 8 in B Spring Shade Sun to Part ‘Sunny Border Blue’ 2 ft B,W,P Spring Shade Summer Sun to Part Several Available 1 ft W,Y,P and Fall Shade

Drought Tolerant Plants
Extremely drought tolerant plants are marked with an underline. When planted in their preferred soil type, these plants are able to withstand extended periods of drought, 4-6 weeks, without supplemental irrigation once established. Most trees and shrubs take two to three seasons to become fully established. Perennials, grasses and groundcovers usually require one to two seasons to become established.

Recommended Varieties
For many plants, recommended varieties are given. These are selections of that plant that either perform better in our area or are more suitable to landscape use than the plain species. Plant varieties, also known as cultivars, are listed enclosed in single quotes.

Water Use Zones
Water Use Zones indicate the water needs of various plants and correspond to the following NCCE publications: Water Wise Use in Landscaping http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/bae/programs/extension/publicat/wqwm/ ag508_1.html How to Plan and Design a Water Wise Use Landscape http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/bae/programs/extension/publicat/wqwm/ ag508_2.html

Soil

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Soil refers to soil condition at the site as follows: Wet indicates a site that stays moist most of the time and receives periodic flooding. Moist indicates a site that is moist most of the time with brief (less than 12hrs) periods of standing water. Well Drained indicates a site where water drains from the surface and rarely stands. Xeric indicates a site that is extremely dry and sandy with very little ability to hold water.

Native Plants*
A plant native to SE USA implies a plant endemic to the Southeastern portion of the United States, from Virginia to Eastern Texas.

Exposure
Exposure refers to the amount of sunlight a site receives as follows: Full sun indicates a site that receives at least 8hrs of direct sun each day. Light Shade indicates a site that is shaded less than half of the day by a light high shade such as that cast by pine trees. Part Shade indicates a site that is shaded for half the day by a dense shade such as that cast by buildings or shade trees. Full Shade indicates a site that is in shade all day.

Colors
W—White B—Blue O—Orange P—Pink Pu—Purple L—Lavender R—Red Y—Yellow

Prepared by: Charlotte Glen, Extension Agent Agriculture—Horticulture North Carolina Cooperative Extension—Pender County Center

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