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.Â
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.
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Buddleia – Lilac Cascade Butterfly Bush
2022 Shrub Of The Year. Ginormous weeping flowers. It's a tie, both Violet and Lilac Cascade are Shrub of the Year.
Buddleia – Violet Cascade Butterfly Bush
2022 Shrub Of The Year. Ginormous weeping flowers. It's a tie, both Violet and Lilac Cascade are Shrub of the Year.
Penstemon digitalis – Smooth White Beardtongue
An important food source for pollinators.
Salvia – Rose Marvel Sage
Brilliant blossoms. Has the largest flowers in its class.
Spigelia marilandica – Ragin Cajun Indian Pink
A superior selection of our Missouri native Indian Pink with multitudes of brilliant orange-red blossoms.
Heliopsis – Bleeding Hearts Oxeye Sunflower
Parents are the Missouri native perennials.
Rudbeckia – American Gold Rush Black-Eyed Susan
Top award winner, fantastic improvement over older varieties.
Rudbeckia – Rodeo Black-Eyed Susan
A never before seen color and form for a Black Eyed Susan.
Rudbeckia maxima – Cabbage Leaf Coneflower
Majestic flowers and powder blue foliage.
Salvia – Violet Profusion Sage
Its prolific blossoms just keep coming and coming all summer.
Thalictrum rochebrunianum – Meadow Rue
Top shade perennial highly recommended.
Heliopsis – Sunstruck Perennial Sunflower
Striking foliage and flowers.
Achillea – Terracotta Yarrow
Warm shades of yellow, peach, and orange all at the same time.
Agastache – Rosie Posie Hummingbird Mint
Hummingbirds find it irresistible.
Allium – Red Giant Ornamental Onion
Giant purple orbs.
Amsonia tabermontana – Blue Star
Award winning native with starry blue flowers.
Antennaria neglecta – Field Pussytoes
Grows anywhere--sun, shade, even dry shade.
Antennaria plantaginifolia – Pussytoes
Missouri native with fun flowers in the shape of a cat's paw.
Aquilegia canadensis – Columbine
Charming, dangling blossoms of red and yellow.
Aralia Sun King
2020 Perennial Plant Of The Year.
Asclepias incarnata – Cinderella Swamp Milkweed
A beautiful selection of our Missouri native.
Asclepias incarnata – Swamp Milkweed
Missouri native with clouds of pink blossoms.
Asclepias purpurascens – Purple Milkweed
Highly coveted, difficult to find, limited availability.
Asclepias sullivantii – Prairie Milkweed
Important food source for butterflies, bees, and other pollinators.
Asclepias syrica – Common Milkweed
Essential host plant for Monarch caterpillars. Mo Bot Garden's Plant of Merit winner.
Asclepias tuberosa – Butterfly Milkweed
#1 best selling Missouri native perennial.
Asclepias verticillata – Whorled Milkweed
Important food source for Monarch butterflies.
Asclepias vir[dis – Green Milkweed
Missouri native perennial.
Aster cordifolius – Blue Wood Aster
Shade loving Missouri native with clouds of rich blue flowers.
Aster laevis – Smooth Aster
Billowing panicles of soft blue flowers in autumn.
Aster oblongifolium – Aromatic Aster
Important Missouri native pollinator plant.
Astilbe – Fanal False Spirea
Long-time favorite red.
Astilbe – Pumila False Spirea
Makes a fantastic ground cover for shade.
Baptisia australis – Blue Indigo
A Missouri native adored for its indigo blossoms.
Buddleia – Grand Cascade Butterfly Bush
Ginormous flowers panicles slightly weep.
Buddleia – Prince Charming, Butterfly Bush
A flower color rarely seen.
Buddleia – Pugster Blue Butterfly Bush
Plump full-sized flowers on dwarf shrubs.
Buddleia – Pugster Periwinkle Butterfly Bush
Showy pinky-purple flowers on dwarf shrubs.
Buddleia – Pugster Pink Butterfly Bush
Large pink flowers on dwarf shrubs.
Buddleia – Pugster White Butterfly Bush
Large white flowers on dwarf shrubs.
Buddleia – Queen of Hearts Butterfly Bush
A royal beauty.
Buddleia – Ruby Chip Butterfly Bush
Ruby pink flowers on petite sized shrubs. Adored by butterflies.
Callirhoe involucrata – Purple Poppy Mallow
2019 Native of the Year.
Carex albicans – White-Tinged Sedge
Pretty Missouri native Sedge.
Carex eburnea – Bristle Leaf Sedge
Caryopteris – Beyond Midnight Bluebeard
Caryopteris – Dark Knight Bluebeard
Showy blue flowers are pollinator magnets.