The plants in this list will perform well as far south as USDA zone 9. Those marked with an asterisk (*) are well adapted to zone 10.
| Common Name | Botanical Name |
| Balloon flower | Platycodon |
| Beardtongue* | Penstemon |
| Bear’s breech* | Acanthus |
| Bee balm | Monarda |
| Bellflower | Campanula |
| Bergenia | Bergenia |
| Black-eyed susan | Rudbeckia |
| Blanket flower | Gaillardia |
| Blazing star* | Liatris |
| Bleeding heart | Dicentra |
| Blue star | Amsonia |
| Bugbane | Cimicifuga |
| Butterfly flower | Asclepias |
| Campion | Lychnis |
| Chrysanthemum* | Chrysanthemum |
| Coneflower | Echinacea |
| Coralbells | Heuchera |
| Coreopsis* | Coreopsis |
| Corsican hellebore | Helleborus lividus corsicus |
| Cupid’s dart | Catananche caerulea |
| Daylily* | Hemerocallis |
| Dwarf plumbago | Ceratostigma |
| Evening primrose* | Oenothera |
| False indigo | Baptisia |
| Foxglove | Digitalis |
| Geum | Geum |
| Globe thistle | Echinops |
| Goatsbeard | Aruncus |
| Golden marguerite | Anthemis |
| Goldenrod | Solidago |
| Iris | Iris |
| Lamb’s ears | Stachys |
| Lily-of-the-Nile* | Agapanthus orientalis |
| Mullein* | Verbascum |
| Oxeye sunflower | Heliopsis |
| Phlox | Phlox |
| Pincushion flower | Scabiosa |
| Plantain lily* | Hosta |
| Queen-of-the-prairie | Filipendula |
| Red-hot poker* | Kniphofia |
| Rosemallow* | Hibiscus |
| Salvia | Salvia |
| Sea pink | Armeria |
| Siberian bugloss | Brunnera |
| Speedwell | Veronica |
| Spiderwort | Tradescantia |
| Spurge* | Euphorbia |
| Stokes’ aster* | Stokesia |
| Stonecrop* | Sedum |
| Sunflower | Helianthus |
| Virginia bluebells | Mertensia |
| Wake robin* | Trillium |
| Wormwood | Artemisia |
| Yarrow | Achillea |
| Yellow archangel | Lamiastrum galeobdolon |
| Grasses | All |