Reference: Botanical to Common Names | Flowering Schedules | From Seed | For Beginners
Perennials for: Cut Flowers | Specimen Plants | Edging | Rock Gardens
Perennials by Light: Dry and Hot | Sun | Semi-shade | Shade
Perennials by Soil: Dry Sandy | Well Drained | Poor Soil | Wet Soil | Water
Perennials Enduring Semi-Shade
(need 4-5 hours of sunlight)
| Common Name | Scientific Name | Height | Color | Season |
| Japanese anemone | Anemone Japonica | 36" | Various | Sept-Oct |
| Columbine | Aquilegia species | 12-24" | Various | April-Aug |
| Woodruff | Asperula odorata | 12" | White | July |
| Aster | Aster, in variety | 18" | Various | July-Aug |
| Bellflower | Campanula Species | 8-36" | Blue, White, Purple | June-Oct |
| Lilly of the Valley | Convallaria majalis | 10" | White | May-June |
| Fringed bleedingheart | Dicentra exima | 18" | Rose | May-Sept |
| Bleedingheart | Dicentra spectabilis | 24-36" | Pink | May |
| Gas Plant | Dictamnus | 36" | Rose, White | May |
| Christmas rose | Helleborus | 12" | White | Dec-Jan |
| Daylily | Hemerocallis sp. | 18-48" | Various | June-July |
| Coral bells | Heuchera sanguinea | 12-24" | Crimson | July |
| St. John's Wort | Hypericum | Varies | Yellow | Varies |
| Candytuft | Iberis sempervirens | 12" | White | April |
| Cattail gayfeather | Liatris pycnostachya | 48" | Rose, Purple | Aug-Sept |
| Cardinal flower | Lobelia cardinalis | 24-36" | Scarlet | Aug-Oct |
| Maltese cross | Lychnis chalcedonica | 24-36" | Scarlet | July-Aug |
| Virginia bluebells | Mertensia virginica | 18" | Blue | May |
| Ozark sundrops | Oenothera missouriensis | 12" | Yellow | June-Aug |
| Summer phlox | Phlox paniculata | 24-48" | Various | July-Sept |
| Summer phlox | Phlox suffruticosa | 24-48" | Various | June-Sept |
| Primrose | Primula, in variety | 6-30" | Various | April-June |
| Trillium | Trillium grandiflorum | 18" | White to Rose Pink | April |
| Globeflower | Trollius europaeus | 24" | Yellow | April-June |
| Tufted pansy | Viola cornuta | 6-10" | Various | April-Oct |
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