Pennsylvania Native Perennials, Ferns & Grasses

Perennials
For Sun/Part Sun

• Amsonia tab. (Common Bluestar)
• Asclepias inc. (Swamp Milkweed)
• Asclepias tub. (Butterfly Weed)
• Aster nov.–ang. (New England Aster)
• Baptisia australis (False Indigo)
• Boltonia asteroides (False Aster)
• Coreopsis (Tickseed)
• Echinacea pur. (Purple Coneflower)
• Eupatorium mac. (Joe-Pye Weed)
• Filipendula rub. (Queen of the Prairie)
• Helenium autumnale (Sneezeweed)
• Helianthus ang. (Swamp Sunflower)
• Heliopsis hel. (False Sunflower)
• Hibiscus mos. (Hardy Hibiscus)
• Iris versicolor (Blue Flag Iris)
• Liatris spicata (Gayfeather)
• Lobelia cardinalis (Cardinal Flower)
• Lobelia siphilitica (Blue Lobelia)
• Monarda (Beebalm)
• Oenothera frut. (Sundrops)
• Penstemon dig. (White Beardtongue)
• Phlox pan. (Summer Phlox)
• Phlox sub. (Moss-Pink Phlox)
• Physostegia vir. (Obedient Plant)
• Rudbeckia (Black-Eyed Susan)
• Solidago (Goldenrod)
• Tradescantia vir. (Spiderwort)
• Veronicastrum vir. (Culver’s Root)

Grasses
For Sun

• Deschampsia ces. (Tufted hairgrass)
• Muhlenbergia cap. (Muhly Grass)
• Panicum vir. (Switchgrass)
• Schizachyrium sco. (Little Bluestem)
• Sporobolus het. (Prairie Dropseed)

Grasses
For Shade/Part Shade

• Andropogon (Big Bluestem)
• Carex pensylvanica (Sedge)
• Chasmanthium lat. (Northern Sea Oats)
• Eragrostis spe. (Purple Lovegrass)

Perennials
For Part Shade/Shade

• Actaea (Snakeroot, Doll’s Eyes)
• Aquilegia can. (Wild Columbine)
• Arisaema tri. (Jack-in-the-Pulpit)
• Aruncus dioicus (Goat’s Beard)
• Asarum Canadensis (Wild Ginger)
• Aster divaricatus (White Wood Aster)
• Chelone glabra (Turtlehead)
• Dicentra exima (Bleeding Heart)
• Geranium maculatum (Wild Geranium)
• Heuchera villosa (Coral Bells)
• Mertensia vir. (Virginia Bluebells)
• Phlox div. (Wild Blue Phlox)
• Phlox stol. (Creeping Phlox)
• Podophyllum peltatum (Mayapple)
• Sanguinaria can. (Bloodroot)
• Tiarella cordifolia (Foamflower)
• Trillium
• Waldsteinia frag. (Barren Strawberry)

Ferns

• Adiantum ped. (Maidenhair Fern)
• Athyrium filix-femina (Lady Fern)
• Dennstaedtia pun. (Hay-Scented Fern)
• Dryopteris int. (Evergreen Wood Fern)
• Matteuccia str. (Ostrich Fern)
• Onoclea sensibilis (Sensitive Fern)
• Osmunda cin. (Cinnamon Fern)
• Osmunda reg. (Royal Fern)
• Polystichum acro. (Christmas Fern)