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Some of the best performing and most reliable hardy perennials for northern and midwest gardens are listed here. Best performing does not mean they are perfect wherever you choose to plant them, but each will perform reliably in their preferred conditions. Use this database to select the best performing perennials for your specific needs.

• Achillea (Yarrow)
• ‘The Pearl’
• ‘Coronation Gold’
• ‘Ortel’s Rose’
• ‘Paprika’
• Adenophora Liliifolia
• Agastache (Hyssop)
• ‘Blue Fortune’
• ‘Blue Giant Hyssop’
• ‘Black Adder’
• ‘Tutti Frutti’
• Alcea Rosea (Hollyhock)
• Alchemilla (Lady’s Mantle)
• Alchemilla mollis syn. vulgaris
• Alchemills alpina (dwarf)
• Anemone hupehensis (Japanese Windflower)
• ‘Honorine Jobert’
• ‘Prince Henry’
• Aquilegia (Columbine)
• ‘McKana Hybrids’
• ‘Winky Series’
• ‘Yellow Queen’
• ‘Biedermeier’
• ‘Canadensis’
• ‘Lime Sorbet’
• ‘Blue Barlow’
• ‘Nora Barlow’
• Aster, perennial
• ‘Alert’
• ‘Monch’
• ‘Alma Potschke’
• ‘Harrington’s Pink’
• ‘Purple Dome’
• ‘Woods Blue’
• Astilbe
• ‘Visions in White’
• ‘Visions in Pink’
• ‘Rise and Shine’
• ‘Deutschland’
• ‘Fanal’
• ‘Elisabeth van Veen’
• ‘Sister Theresa’
• ‘Boogie Woogie’
• Brunnera
• ‘Jack Frost’
• ‘Variegata’
• ‘Mr. Morse’
• Campanula (Bellflower)
• ‘Clips’ (White/Blue)
• ‘Pearl Deep Blue’ (Improved ‘Clips”)
• ‘Samantha’
• ‘Birch Hybrid’
• ‘Canterbury Bells’
• ‘Sarastro’
• ‘Kent Belle’
• ‘Cherry Bells’
• ‘Joan Elliott’ (Clustered Bellflower)
• Centaurea montana
• ‘Amethyst in Snow’
• ‘Blue’
• ‘Alba’
• ‘Purple Heart’
• ‘Gold Bullion’
• Cinquefoil
• Clematis
• Chrysanthemum
• Convaflaria majatis
• Coreopsis
• Lanceleaf (common)
• ‘Moonbeam’
• ‘Golden Dream’
• ‘Jethro Tull’
• ‘Early Sunrise’
• ‘Zagreb’
• ‘Limerock Passion’
• ‘Sweet Dreams’
• Cranesbill (Hardy Geranium)
• ‘Johnson’s Blue’
• ‘Rozanne’
• ‘Brookside’
• ‘Jolly Bee’
• ‘Biokovo’
• ‘Ballerina’
• ‘Tiny Monster’
• ‘Purple Pillow’
• ‘Bloody Cranesbill’
• ‘Pencilled Geranium’
• Delphinium
• ‘Black Knight’ Pacific Giant
• ‘Bluebird’ Pacific Giant
• ‘Galahad’ Pacific Giant
• ‘Blue Lace’ New Millennium
• ‘Royal Aspirations’ New Millennium
• ‘Green Twist’ New Millennium
• ‘Blushing Brides’ New Millennium
• ‘Olive Poppleton’
• ‘Blue Butterfly’
• ‘Magic Fountains’
• Dianthus
• ‘Brilliant’ Maiden Pink
• ‘Arctic Fire’ Maiden Pink
• ‘Bath’s Pink’ Cheddar Pink
• ‘Firewitch’ Cheddar Pink
• ‘Tiny Rubies’ Cheddar Pink’
• ‘Mountain Mist’ Cheddar Pink
• spp var. Large Pink
• ‘Crimsonia’ Large Pink
• Sternbergii Fringed Pink
• ‘Desmond’ Allwood Modern Pinks
• ‘Cranberry Ice’ Whetman Dessert Series
• ‘Raspberry Ripple’ Whetman Dessert Series
• ‘Spangled Star’ Whetman Star Series
• ‘Fire Star’ Whetman Star Series
• Dicentra
• ‘King of Hearts’ Fern-leaf Bleeding Heart
• ‘Ivory Hearts’ Fern-leaf Bleeding Heart
• ‘Alba’ Old Fashioned Bleeding Heart
• ‘Dolly Sods’ Fringed Bleeding Heart
• ‘Luxuriant’ Fern-leaf Bleeding Heart
• ‘Aurora’ Fern-leaf Bleeding Heart
• Echinacea
• E. purpurea Species Plant
• ‘Magnus’ Purple Coneflower
• ‘Fatal Attraction’ E. purpurea cultivar
• ‘White Swan’ E. purpurea cultivar
• Pixie Meadowbrite’ Hybrid Coneflower
• ‘All That Jazz’ Hybrid Coneflower
• ‘Firebird’ Hybrid Coneflower
• ‘Hot Papaya’ Double Hybrid
• ‘Summer Sky’ Big Sky Series
• ‘Sundown’ Big Sky Series
• ‘Sunrise’ Big Sky Series
• ‘Tomato Soup’ Hybrid Coneflower
• Fritillaria
• Gaillardia (Blanket Flower)
• ‘Oranges and Lemons’
• ‘Arizona Sun’
• ‘Bremen’
• ‘Burgundy’
• ‘Fanfare’
• ‘Goblin’
• ‘Sundance Bicolor’ Double Firewheel
• ‘Red Plume’ Double Firewheel
• ‘aristata’ Common Blanket Flower
• ‘pulchella’ Common Indian Blanket
• Gypsophilia
• Helleborus
• Hemerocallis
• Heuchera sanguinea
• Iberis
• Illium
• Lamium
• Lavandula
• ‘Hidcote’
• ‘Blue Cushion’
• ‘Munstead’
• ‘Grosso’
• ‘Rosea’
• Malva
• Monarda
• Nepata
• ‘Walker’s Low’
• ‘Blue Wonder’
• Papaver orientale
• Penstemon
• Peony
• Perovskia
• Phlox paniculata
• ‘Bright Eyes’
• ‘David’
• ‘Eva Callum’
• Phlox subulata
• ‘Candy Strip’
• ‘Emerald Blue’
• ‘Emerald Cushion Blue’
• Platycodon
• Pulmonaria
• ‘Mrs. Moon’
• ‘Sissinghurst White’
• ‘Trevi Fountain’
• Rudbeckia
• ‘Henry Eilers’
• ‘Sonora’
• ‘Cherokee Sunset’
• ‘Goldsturm’
• ‘Prairie Sun’
• Scabiosa
• Sedum
• Salvia
• Speedwell
• Tiarella

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