Classification

Common Name

Height

Spread

Bloom Time

Bloom Color

Sun

Water

Maintenance

Page #

Rudbeckia ‘goldstrum’

Brown-eyed Susan

2-5’

1’

Late Summer

gold

Full to partial

Medium-moist

low

Agastache

Anise Hyssop

3’

July

violet

Full-partial

Dry

Baptisia australis

Blue Wild Indigo

3-4’

3-4’

May-June

purple

Full to partial

Dry-medium wet

low

Aster novae-angliae

New England Aster

3-6’

2-3’

August-September

Deep pink-purple

Full sun

Medium moisture

medium

Aster drummondii

Drummond’s Aster

2-4’

September-October

Pale blue to lavender

w/yellow center disk

Aster laevis

Smooth Blue Aster

2-4’

1-2’

September-October

Blue to purple w/yellow center disk

Full sun

Dry to medium

low

Lobelia cardinals

Cardinal Flower

2-4’

July-September

scarlet

Full sun to very light shade

moist

Lobelia siphilitica

Great Blue Lobelia

1-4’

8-12"

July-September

Blue

Full to partial

medium

low

Eupitorium maculatum

Joe-Pye Weed

4-6’

3’

Late July-early September

Light purple

Full sun-partial shade

moist

Eupitorium petrolatum

Boneset

2-4’

July-September

White

Full Sun-Partial shade

Moist-wet

Echinops

Blue Globe Thistle

2-4

1-2

July-August

Steel blue

Full

Medium

low

Ratibida pinnata

Yellow Coneflower

3-5’

1.5-2’

June-August

yellow

Full sun

medium

medium

Echinacea purpurea

Purple Coneflower

-3’

-3’

Mid-summer-early autumn

Purple-mauve or white

Full-partial

Drought tolerant

Veronicastrum virginicum

Culver’s Root

3-6’

1’

July-August

White

Full - shade

Medium-moist

Solidago rigida

Stiff Goldenrod

3-5’

1.5-2.5’

Ausgust-September

Yellow

Full

Medium

Medium

Liatris spicata

Dense Blazing Star

1-2.5’

.5-1’

July-August

Deep purple

Full

Medium

Low

Liatris pycnostachya

Prairie Blazing Star

3-5’

.5-1’

July-August

Purple/pink

Full

Mediu,-moist

Liatris aspera

Rough (Button) Blazing Star

2-5’

.5-1’

August-September

Puple/pink

Full

Dry-medium

Asclepias incarnata

Swamp Milkweed

4-5’

2-3’

July- August

White, pink

Full

Medium-wet

Low

Asclepias syriaca

Field Milkweed

2-3’

.75-1’

June-August

White, pink

Full

Dry-medium

Low

Asclepias tuberosa

Butterfly Weed

1.5-3

1-2

July-August

Orange, yellow

Full

Dry-medium

Low

Amorpha canescens

Lead Plant

2-3’

2-2.5’

July-September

Purple-Blue

Full

Dry-medium

Low

Helianthus grosseserratus

Sawtooth Sunflower

3-12’

Late summer-fall

yellow

Full

moist

Monarda fistulosa

Wild Bergamont

2-4’

2-3’

July-September

Lavender

Full - partial

Dry-medium

Medium

Penstemon digitalis

Foxglove Beardtongue

2-3’

1’

June-July

White

Full- partial

Medium-moist

Verbascum

Mullien

3-4’

1"

Summer

White, rose, red, purple, violet

Full sun