These plants have a smoothly rounded, bushy habit of growth and are generally dense, with foliage from top to bottom.
| Common Name | Botanical Name |
| Baby’s breath | Gypsophila |
| Blanket flower | Gaillardia |
| Bleeding heart | Dicentra |
| Cushion spurge | Euphorbia epithymoides |
| Daylily | Hemerocallis |
| False indigo | Baptisia |
| False lupine | Thermopsis |
| Feverfew | Chrysanthemum parthenium |
| Gas plant | Dictamnus |
| Geranium | Geranium |
| Goatsbeard | Aruncus |
| Oxeye Sunflower | Heliopsis |
| Peony | Paeonia |
| Plantain lily | Hosta |
| Shasta daisy | Chrysanthemum x superbum |
| Showy stonecrop | Sedum spectabile |
| Sneezeweed | Helenium |
| Threadleaf coreopsis | Coreopsis verticillata |
| Wormwood | Artemisia |
| Grasses | |
| Blue fescue | Festuca |
| Blue oat grass | Helictotrichon |
| Tufted hair grass | Deschampsia |