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Anise Hyssop (Agastache foeniculum)

Category: Flowering Perennials

  • Smells like licorice
  • Can be used as an herb
  • Steep leaves in hot water for delicious tea
  • Full to part sun
  • Dry to medium soil
  • 2′ to 4′ tall
  • Blooms July thru September
  • Clump forming
  • Pollinator magnet
  • Extremely long bloom time

anise hyssop agastache foeniculum


Aromatic Aster (Symphyotrichum oblongifolium)

Category: Flowering Perennials

  • Grows 2 feet tall
  • Full sun
  • Medium to dry soil
  • Blooms into October and November
  • Keystone Plant
  • Important plant for pollinators preparing to over-winter
  • Very late blooming (into November)

Aromatic Aster (symphyotrichum oblongifolium)


Big Leaved Aster (Eurybia macrophylla)

Category: Flowering Perennials

  • Large, heart-shaped leaves up to 8 inches
  • Good for a shade groundcover
  • Grows 12 inches tall
  • Part shade to shade
  • Dry to moist soil
  • Non-showy bloom from August through October
  • Shorter shade-tolerant aster

Big Leaved Aster (eurybia macrophylla)


Black Cohosh (Actaea racemosa)

Category: Flowering Perennials

  • Grows 4 to 6 feet tall
  • Medium to moist soil
  • Part shade to shade
  • Can bloom from June to September
  • Shade-loving plant
  • Can get rather large
  • Showy white flowers

Black Cohosh (actaea racemosa)


Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)

Category: Flowering Perennials

  • Grows 1 to 3 feet tall
  • Part to full sun
  • Dry to moist soil
  • Blooms June through September
  • Long bloom time
  • Attracts butterflies and other pollinators
  • Seed heads attract finches and other birds
  • Prolific
  • Will spread easily from seed

Black-eyed Susan (rudbeckia hirta)


Blue False Indigo (Baptisia australis)

Category: Flowering Perennials

  • Attractive form in the landscape
  • Full to part sun
  • Medium Moisture
  • 3′ to 5′ tall
  • Blooms June, July
  • Attractive flowers
  • Great blue color
  • Can be aggressive
  • Tends to flop

Blue False Indigo (baptisia australis)


Blue Flag Iris (Iris virginica shrevei)

Category: Flowering Perennials

  • Hardy plant for wet soil
  • Grows 2 to 3 feet tall
  • Blooms in June and July
  • Full to part sun
  • Excellent for low wet areas
  • Loved by hummingbirds
  • Great plant for gutter down-spout or rain garden

Blue Flag Iris (Iris Virginica Shrevei)


Blue Lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica)

Category: Flowering Perennials

  • Grows 1 to 4 feet tall
  • Full to part sun
  • Medium to moist soil
  • Attractive to pollinators and hummingbirds
  • Blooms July through September
  • Not aggressive
  • Good for damp clay
  • Could be considered a short-lived perennial
  • self-seeds and will move around

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Blue Vervain (Verbena hastata)

Category: Flowering Perennials

  • Grows 2 to 4 feet tall
  • Full Sun to Part Shade
  • Medium to dry soil
  • Long blooming
  • Blooms July through September
  • Important nectar source
  • Great for butterfly gardens
  • Larval host plant
  • Non-aggressive
  • Very drought resistant
  • Good plant for rain garden swale or area with poor drainage
  • Will self-seed and move around

blue vervain (verbena hastata)


Bottle Gentian (Gentiana andrewsii)

Category: Flowering Perennials

  • Grows 1 to 2 feet tall
  • Full to part sun
  • Moist to wet soil
  • Blooms late into fall
  • Slow growing
  • Long-lived
  • Unique closed flowers
  • Pollinated exclusively by large bumblebees

Bottle Gentian (gentiana andrewsii)

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