Best Perennial Plants for St. Louis Missouri Area
Here you will find the best perennial plants for St Louis Missouri.
Discover the many perennials that grow well in the St Louis area. You can narrow your selections on the left by many different attributes, including: perennials for sun, perennials for shade, rabbit resistant perennials, deer resistant perennials, perennials for cut flower gardens, and many more.
IMPORTANT NOTE: All perennial plants listed here are offered in-house subject to availability. Some of these perennial plants may be ordered online for pick up at the nursery.
We do not ship.
Echinacea purpurea Purple Coneflower
Gorgeous Missouri native perennial for natural and formal settings.
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Phlox paniculata, Garden Phlox
Missouri native with fragrant flowers for months.
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Rudbeckia maxima Cabbage Leaf Coneflower
Majestic flowers and powder blue foliage.
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Amsonia tabermontana, Blue Star
Award winning native with starry blue flowers.
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Antennaria neglecta Field Pussytoes
Grows anywhere--sun, shade, even dry shade.
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Antennaria plantaginifolia Pussytoes
Missouri native with fun flowers in the shape of a cat's paw.
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Aquilegia canadensis Columbine
Charming, dangling blossoms of red and yellow.
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Asclepias incarnata, Swamp Milkweed
Missouri native with clouds of pink blossoms.
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Asclepias syrica, Common Milkweed
Essential host plant for Monarch caterpillars. Mo Bot Garden's Plant of Merit winner.
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Asclepias virdis, Green Milkweed
Missouri native perennial.
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Aster cordifolius, Blue Wood Aster
Shade loving Missouri native with clouds of rich blue flowers.
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Aster oblongifolium Aromatic Aster
Important Missouri native pollinator plant.
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Astilbe Pumila False Spirea
Makes a fantastic ground cover for shade.
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Baptisia australis Blue Indigo
A Missouri native adored for its indigo blossoms.
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Buddleia Grand Cascade, Butterfly Bush
Ginormous flowers panicles slightly weep.
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Buddleia Prince Charming, Butterfly Bush
A flower color rarely seen.
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Buddleia Pugster Blue, Butterfly Bush
Plump full-sized flowers on dwarf shrubs.
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Buddleia Pugster Periwinkle, Butterfly Bush
Showy pinky-purple flowers on dwarf shrubs.
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Buddleia Pugster Pink, Butterfly Bush
Large pink flowers on dwarf shrubs.
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Buddleia Pugster White, Butterfly Bush
Large white flowers on dwarf shrubs.
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Buddleia Queen of Hearts, Butterfly Bush
A royal beauty.
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Buddleia Ruby Chip Butterfly Bush
Ruby pink flowers on petite sized shrubs. Adored by butterflies.
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Carex albicans White-Tinged Sedge
Pretty Missouri native Sedge.
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Carex eburnea Bristle Leaf Sedge
Looks like grass but no mowing required, shade lover.
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Caryopteris Beyond Midnight, Bluebeard
Popular variety.
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Caryopteris Dark Knight Bluebeard
Showy blue flowers are pollinator magnets.
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Caryopteris Sunshine Blue II Bluebeard Shrub
Sapphire flowers on golden foliage.
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Chelone glabra, Turtle Head
Missouri native moisture loving perennial.
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Chelone obliqua Turtle Head
Popular native Missouri perennial with turtle head shaped flowers.
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Cladrastis kentukea, Yellowwood
Missouri native tree with showy flowers and foliage.
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Coreopsis lanceolata Lance Leaf Coreopsis
Named 2021 Missouri Native Plant Of The Year for its outstanding qualities.
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Coreopsis palmata Prairie Coreopsis
This US native perennial thrives in hot spots and poor soil.
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Coreopsis pubescens, Star Tickseed
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Coreopsis tripteris Star Tickseed
Choice Missouri native for butterflies.
Offered in-house.
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Dianthus Oscar Salmon Carnation
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Echinacea angustifolia Narrow-Leaf Coneflower
A charming Missouri native perennial.
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