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 |