These perennials will tolerate drought and poor, dry soil better than most.
| Common Name | Botanical Name |
| Basket-of-gold | Aurinia |
| Blackberry lily | Belamcanda |
| Black-eyed Susan | Rudbeckia |
| Blanket flower | Gaillardia |
| Blue star | Amsonia |
| Butterfly flower | Asclepias |
| Coreopsis | Coreopsis |
| Cupid’s dart | Catananche caerulea |
| Daylily | Hemerocallis |
| Evening primrose | Oenothera |
| False indigo | Baptisia |
| False lupine | Thermopsis |
| Feverfew | Chrysanthemum parthenium |
| Geranium | Geranium |
| Globe thistle | Echinops |
| Golden marguerite | Anthemis |
| Goldenrod | Solidago |
| Lamb’s ears | Stachys |
| Mullein | Verbascum |
| Pacific Coast iris | Iris, Pacific Coast varieties |
| Pink | Dianthus |
| Red-hot poker | Kniphofia |
| Salvia | Salvia |
| Sea pink | Armeria |
| Spiderwort | Tradescantia |
| Spurge | Euphorbia |
| Stonecrop | Sedum |
| Tall gayfeather | Liatris scariosa |
| Wormwood | Artemisia |
| Yarrow | Achillea |
| Yellow archangel | Lamiastrum galeobdolon |