Perennials for Shade
LATIN NAME | COMMON NAME | CULTIVAR/VARIETY |
Aconitum napellus | Monkshood | Album |
Aconitum x | Monkshood | Royal Flush |
Actaea simplex | Snakeroot | Black Negligee |
Actea (Cimicifuga) | Snakeroot/Bugbane | Black Beauty |
Actea (Cimicifuga) | Snakeroot/Bugbane | Chocoholic |
Actea (Cimicifuga) | Snakeroot/Bugbane | Pink Spike |
Actea (Cimicifuga) | Snakeroot/Bugbane | |
Adiantum pedatum | Northern Maidenhair Fern | |
Alchemilla mollis | Lady's Mantle | |
Alchemilla sericata | Lady's Mantle | Gold Strike |
Anthyrium | Lady Fern | Ghost |
Aralia cordata | Japanese Spikenard | Gotemba |
Arisaema triphyllum | Jack in the Pulpit | |
Aruncus aethusifolius | Dwarf Goatsbeard | |
Asarum canadense | Wild Ginger | |
Aster divaricatus | White Woodland Aster | Eastern Star |
Astilbe arendsii | False Spirea | August Light |
Astilbe x arendsii | False Spirea | Bridal Veil |
Astilbe japonica | False Spirea | Ellie |
Astilbe x arendsii | False Spirea | Fanal |
Astilbe chinensis | False Spirea | Maggie Daley |
Astilbe japonica | False Spirea | Montgomery |
Astilbe | False Spirea | Rheinland |
Astilbe chinensis | False Spirea | Vision in Pink |
Astilbe chinensis | False Spirea | Visions in Red |
Astrantia major | Masterwort | Star of Beauty |
Astrantia major | Masterwort | Star of Fire |
Athyrium niponicum | Japanese Painted Fern | Pictum |
Athyrium x | Ghost Fern | Ghost |
Athyrium x | Lady Fern | Lady in Red |
Bergenia cordifolia | Pigsqueak | Winter Glow |
Brunnera macrophylla | Heartleaft Alkanet | Alexander's Great |
Brunnera macrophylla | Siberian Bugloss | Hadspen Cream |
Brunnera macrophylla | Siberian Bugloss | Sea Heart |
Chelone glabra | Turtlehead | |
Chelone lyonii | Turtlehead | Hot Lips |
Chelone obliqua | Turtlehead | Pink |
Chelone obliqua | Turtlehead | Tiny Tortuga |
Convallaria majalis | Lily of the Valley | White |
Cornus Canadensis | Bunchberry | |
Corydalis flexuosa | Blue corydalis | Porcelain Blue |
Dicentra cucullaria | Dutchman's Breeches | |
Dicentra formosa | Bleeding Heart | Bacchanal |
Dicentra formosa | Bleeding Heart | Luxuriant |
Dicentra spectabilis | Bleeding Heart | Old Fashioned |
Digitalis x mertonensis | Strawberry Foxglove | |
Dodecatheon meadia | Shooting Star | |
Epimedium veriscolor | Barrenwort | Sulphureum |
Epimedium x warleyense | Barrenwort | Orange Queen |
Epimedium youngianum | Barrenwort | Rubra |
Euonymus fortunei | Purple Leaf Wintercreeper | Aureo-Marginata |
Gentiana septemfida | Gentian | Iagodechiana |
Heuchera | Coral Bells/Alumroot | Berry Smoothie |
Heuchera x | Coral Bells/Alumroot | Blondie |
Heuchera villosa | Coral Bells/Alum Root | Bronze Wave |
Heuchera | Coral Bells/Alumroot | Caramel |
Heuchera villosa | Coral Bells/Alum Root | Citronelle |
Heuchera | Coral Bells/Alumroot | Frosted Violet |
Heuchera | Coral Bells/Alumroot | Georgia Peach |
Heuchera americana | Coral Bells/Alumroot | Marvelous Marble |
Heuchera | Coral Bells/Alumroot | Northern Exposure Red |
Heuchera | Coral Bells/Alumroot | Obsidian |
Heuchera | Coral Bells/Alumroot | Peach Flambe |
Heuchera x | Coral Bells/Alumroot | Plum Pudding |
Heucherella | Foamy Bells | Catching Fire |
Heucherella | Foamy Bells | Gold Zebra |
Heucherella | Foamy Bells | Pink Revolution |
Heucherella | Foamy Bells | Solar Eclipse |
Ligularia | Leopard Plant | Bottle Rocket |
Ligularia | Leopard Plant | Britt Marie Crawford |
Ligularia | Leopard Plant | Little Rocket |
Ligularia | Leopard Plant | The Rocket |
Ligularia dentata | Leopard Plant | BBQ Banana |
Ligularia stenocephala | Dwarf Ligularia/Ragwort | Osiris Café Noir |
Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal Flower | |
Lobelia siphilitica | Blue Cardinal Flower | |
Matteuccia struthiopteris | Ostrich Fern | |
Mertensia virginiana | Virginia Bluebells | |
Mukdenia rosii | Red Leaved Mukdenia | Crimson Fans |
Osmunda cinnamomea | Cinnamon Fern | |
Persicaria amplexicaulis | Mountain Fleece/Knotweed | Golden Arrow |
Phlox divaricata | Woodland Phlox | Blue Moon |
Podophyllum peltatum | May-Apple | |
Polemonium boreale | Jacob's Ladder | Heavenly Habit |
Polemonium reptens | Jacob's Ladder | Stairway to Heaven |
Polemonium yezoense | Jacob's Ladder | Purple Rain |
Polygonatum falcatum | Solomon's Seal | Variegatum |
Polygonatum humile | Dwarf Solomon's Seal | |
Polygonatum odoratum | Fragrant Solomon's Seal | Variegatum |
Polystichum acrostichoides | Christmas Fern | |
Pulmonaria | Lungwort | Blue Ensign |
Pulmonaria | Lungwort | Moonshine |
Thalictrum aquilegifolium | Meadow Rue | |
Thalictrum ichangense | Meadow Rue | Evening Star |
Tiarella | Foamflower | Fingerpaint |
Tiarella cordifolia | Foamflower | |
Tradescantia andersoniana | Spiderwort | Amethyst Kiss |
Tradescantia andersoniana | Spiderwort | Blue and Gold |
Tradescantia andersoniana | Spiderwort | Sweet Kate |
Tricyrtis hirta | Toad Lily | Miyazaki |
Tricyrtis hirta | Toad Lily | Moonlight |
Trycirtis fomosanna | Toad Lily | Autumn Glow |