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SUN LOVING,
MOSTLY PERENNIALS
and a very few annuals
(for the comestible & medicinal garden,
see also the index of Sun Garden Herbs)
  • Ajuga reptans 'Burdundy Glow' bugleweed

  • Ajuga reptans 'Pink Spire' bugleweed

  • Alcea rosea var nigra, black hollyhocks

  • Aurinia saxatilis, Basket-of-Gold

  • Arabis caucasica compacta 'Snowcap,' White Rock Cress

  • Armeria maritima 'Dusseldorf Pride,' or Sea Thrift

  • Armeria x pseudarmeria 'Formosa' Giant Sea Thrift

  • Armeria x pseudarmeria 'Joystick Red' Sea Thrift

  • Aster novi-belgii 'Melody' autumn aster

  • Aster novi-belgii 'Patricia Ballard' autumn aster

  • Aster spp., Hardy Asters

  • Aster ericoides 'Pink Star' heath aster

  • Aubrieta cultorum x deltoidea 'Argenteovariegata'

  • Bellis perennis 'Habanera' large quilled double English daisy

  • Bellis perennis 'Rominette Pink' double English daisy

  • Bergenia cordifolia 'Abendglocken'

  • Bergenia cordifolia 'Winterglut'

  • Bergenia cordifolia x crassifolia 'Silberlicht' elephant ears

  • Bergenia crassifolia

  • Calceolaria integrifolia 'Kentish Hero' slipperwort

  • Campanula carpatica var turbinata 'Pearl Deep Blue' tussuck bellflower

  • Campanula cochleariifolia 'Bavarian Blue' fairy thimbles

  • Campanula 'Dickson's Gold' Adriatic Bellflower

  • Campanula glomerata 'Joan Elliot' Clustered Bellflower

  • Campanula glomerata 'Crown of Snow' or 'Schneekrone' clustered bellflower

  • Campanula glomerata dahurica 'Superba'

  • Campanula medium 'Rose Canterbury Bells'

  • Campanula medium 'Champion Blue Canterbury Bells'

  • Campanula medium var calycanthema"Cup & Saucer Canterbury Bells'

  • Campanula persicifolia var alba 'White Peachbells'

  • Campanula persicifolia 'Blue' Peachleaf Bellflower

  • Campanula portenschlagiana 'Resholt Variety' Dalmation bellflower

  • Campanula poscharskyana, Serbian bellflower

  • Campanula poscharskyana 'Blue Gown' Serbian bellflower

  • Campanula poscharskyana 'Camgoood' aka 'Blue Waterfall' Serbian bellflower

  • Campanula punctata 'Cherry Bells'

  • Campanula punctata x trachelium 'Sarastro'

  • Campanula rotundifolia 'Olympica' Bluebells-of-Scotland, or Harebells

  • Campanula takesimana, Korean Bellflower

  • Campanula trachelium 'Bernice' nettle-leafed bellflower

  • Catananche caerulea, Cupid's dart

  • Centaurea sp., Knapweed Invaders

  • Centaurea cyanus, blue bachelor buttons

  • Centaurea dealbata 'Rosea' Persian cornflower

  • Centaurea montana, Mountain Bluet

  • Centranthus ruber — Red Valerian

  • Cerastium tomentosum, Snow in Summer

  • Cerinthe major var purpurascens, Blue Honeywort

  • Coreopsis lancelolata 'Baby Sun' or 'Sonnenkind'

  • Coreopsis grandiflora 'Early Sunrise'

  • Coreopsis verticillata 'Moonbeam' Threadleaf Flower or Tickseed

  • Ceratostigma plumbaginoides, dwarf plumbago

  • Dianthus barbatus nigriscens 'Sooty'

  • Dianthus plumarius 'Desmond' red carnation

  • Digitalis ferruginea, rusty foxgloves

  • Digitalis obscura, Dusky Maid Foxgloves

  • Digitalis purpurea, common foxglove

  • Echinacea pallida, pale coneflower

  • Echinacea purpurea 'Bravado'

  • Echinacea purpurea 'Coconut Lime'

  • Echinacea purpurea 'Doppelganger' aka 'Doubledecker'

  • Echinacea purpurea 'Kim's Knee High'

  • Echinacea purpurea 'Little Magnus'

  • Echinacea purpurea 'Razzmatazz'

  • Echinacea purpurea 'Ruby Star'

  • Echinacea purpurea alba 'Fragrant Angel'

  • Echinacea purpurea alba 'White Swan'

  • Echinacea purpurea x paradoxa 'Mac n Cheese'

  • Echinacea purpurea x paradoxa 'Mango Meadowbrite'

  • Echinacea purpurea x paradoxa 'Summer Sky'

  • Echinacea purpurea x paradoxa 'Sundown' aka 'Evan Saul'

  • Echinacea purpurea x paradoxa 'Sunrise'

  • Echinacea purpurea x paradoxa 'Sunset'

  • Echinacea purpurea x paradoxa 'Twilight'

  • Echinacea tennesseensis 'Rocky Top'

  • Echinops sphaerocephalus 'Arctic Glow' Globe Thistle

  • Epilobium angustifolium, fireweed

  • Equisetum hyemale, Scouring Rush Horsetail

  • Eryngium x planum 'Sapphire Blue' sea holly

  • Erysimum cheiri 'Charity Scarlet Bronze' aegean wallflower

  • Erysimum cheiri 'Orange Cheiri' aegean wallflower

  • Erysimum linifolium 'Variegatum' variegated alpine wallflower

  • Erysimum linifolium 'Wenlock Beauty' alpine wallflower

  • Eschscholzia californica, California poppy

  • Euphorbia amygdaloides 'Purpurea", Purple Wood Spurge

  • Euphorbia characias 'Portuguese Velvet'

  • Euphorbia characias wulfenii 'Lambrook Gold' large Mediterranean spurge

  • Euphorbia cyparissias 'Fen's Ruby' Cypress Spurge

  • Felicia amelloides — Blue Marguerite Daisy

  • Festuca ovina var glauca 'Elijah Blue' ornamental grass

  • Fragaria ananssis x Potentilla palustris 'Lipstick' ornamental alpine strawberry

  • Fragaria chiloensis x Potentilla palustris, 'Pink Panda' ornamental strawberry

  • Gaillardia x grandiflora 'Fanfare'

  • Gazania rigens, rainbow daisies

  • Geum chiloense 'Blazing Sunset' red double avens

  • Geum chiloense 'Lady Stratheden' golden double avens

  • Geum x coccineum 'Mango Lassi'

  • Geum triforum, Prairie Smoke or Old Man's Whiskers

  • Gypsophila oldhamiana, Manchurian baby's breath

  • Helenium x autumnale 'Feuersiegel' Helen's flower

  • Hibiscus moscheutos 'Disco Belle Pink' rose mallow or hardy hibiscus

  • Hibiscus moscheutos 'Disco Belle Red' rose mallow or hardy hibiscus

  • Hibiscus moscheutos 'Luna Blush White' rose mallow or hardy hibiscus

  • Hieracium aurantiacum, Orange Hawkweed

  • Helianthus annuus, black-seed sunflower

  • Iberis sempervirens 'Snowflake' Candytuft

  • Incarvillea arguta — Himalayan Gloxinia

  • Knautia macedonica 'Egyptian Rose'

  • Lamium purpurea, Red Dead Nettle

  • Lantana camara 'Radiation Orange'

  • Lathyrus vernus, Spring Vetchling

  • Lemna minor, duckweed

  • Leucanthemum vulgare, oxeye daisy

  • Liatris spicata 'Floristan White' Gayfeather or Blazing Star

  • Linaria maroccana, baby snapdragon

  • Linaria purpurrea 'Canon J. Went' toadflax

  • Linum grandiflorum var rubrum, scarlet flax

  • Linum perenne 'Sapphire Blue' flax

  • Lobelia x speciosa 'Compliment Deep Red'

  • Lobelia x speciosa 'Fan Burgundy'

  • Lobularia maritima, Sweet Alyssum

  • Lupinus perennis, wild sundial lupine

  • Lychnis coronaria, Rose Campion

  • Lysimachia punctata 'Alexander,' Variegated Yellow Loosestrife & Alexander the Great

  • Malva sylvestris 'Primley Blue' common mallow
  • Malva sylvestris var. mauritiana 'Bibor Fehlo' high mallow

  • Mazus reptans, creeping mazus

  • Meconopsis betonicifolia, Tibetan Bue Poppy

  • Meconopsis grandis, Himalayan Bue Poppy

  • Oenothera speciosa var berlandieri 'Siskayou Pink' Mexican Evening Primrose

  • Olsynium douglasii 'Quaint & Queer' Widow Grass or Satin Flower

  • Oxalis adenophylla, Chilean wood sorrel

  • Oxalis deppei 'Iron Cross' False Shamrock

  • Papaver alpinum, Alpine Poppies

  • Papavar nudicaule 'White' Icelandic Poppy

  • Papavar orientalis 'Brilliant' perennial poppy

  • Papavar orientalis 'Lilac Girl' perennial poppy

  • Papavar orientalis 'Juliane' perennial poppy

  • Papavar orientalis 'Patty's Plum' perennial poppy

  • Papavar orientalis 'Royal Wedding' perennial poppy

  • Papavar rboeas, Red or Field Poppy

  • Papaver Somniferum, Opium Poppies

  • Papaver somniferum 'Black Cloud' Peony Poppy

  • Penstemon barbatus 'Bashful'

  • Penstemon x barbatus 'Prairie Dusk'

  • Penstemon x campanulatus 'Garnet' aka 'Andenken an Friedrich Hahn'

  • Penstemon x campanulatus 'Ruby' aka 'Schoenholzeri' aka 'Firebird'

  • Penstemon x campanulatus 'Sour Grapes'

  • Penstemon x gloxinioides 'Apple Blossom'

  • Penstemon strictus x gloxinoides 'Midnight Blue'

  • Persicaria amplexicaulis 'Orangefield'

  • Phaceliacampanularia, California Desert Bluebells

  • Phlox paniculata 'Blue Boy'

  • Phlox paniculata 'David'

  • Phlox paniculata 'Mrs. Pepper'

  • Phlox paniculata 'Starfire'

  • Phlox subulata 'Candy Stripe' moss phlox or creeping phlox

  • Phlox subulata 'Red Wings' moss phlox

  • Platycodon grandiflorus 'Astra Blue' balloon flower

  • Platycodon grandiflorus 'Fuji Blue' balloon flower

  • Platycodon grandfiflorus 'Fuji Pink'

  • Platycodon grandiflorus var. albus 'Fuji White'

  • Potentilla nepalensis 'Melton Fire' cinquefoil

  • Potentilla nepalensis 'Miss Wilmott' cinquefoil

  • Potentilla thurberi maorubens 'Monarch's Velvet' cinquefoil

  • Pratia angulata 'Treadwellii' Blue Star Creeper

  • Pratia pedunculata 'County Park' Blue Star Creeper

  • Pseudonaphalium macouni, Cudweed or Everlasting

  • Pulsatilla vulgaris 'Red Clock,' pasque flower

  • Rehmannia elata, Chinese Foxglove aka Beverly Bells

  • Rudbeckia fulgida var sullivantii 'Goldsturm' black-eyed susan

  • Rudbeckia hirta 'Goldilocks' black-eyed susan double

  • Rudbeckia hirta 'Prairie Sun' Gloriosa Daisy

  • Rudbeckia laciniata, Cutleaf Coneflower

  • Rudbeckia lacinata var hortensia x nitida 'Goldquelle'

  • Rumex occidentalis, Western Dock

  • Saxifraga x arendsii 'Triumph,' a reliable stand-by

  • Scabiosa atropurpurea 'Ace of Spaces' Pincushion Flower

  • Scabiosa atropurpurea 'Qis Scarlet' Mourning Bride

  • Scabiosa caucasica 'Perfecta Blue' Pincushion Flower

  • Scabiosa columbaria 'Pink Mist' Pincushion Flower

  • Senecio jacobaea, tansy ragwort

  • Sidalcea malviflora 'Party Girl' prairie mallow

  • Sisyrinchium angustifolium, Eastern Blue-Eyed Grass

  • Sisyrinchium angustifolium forma album, White Blue-Eyed Grass

  • Sisyrinchium x bellum 'E. K. Balls' Blue-Eyed Grass

  • Sisyrinchium californicum, Yellow-Eyed Grass

  • Soldanella alpina Alpine Snow Bells , a woodland path delight

  • Stachys densiflora 'Hummelo' Betony

  • Stachys lanata, Lamb's Ears

  • Stokesia laevis 'Blue Star,' Stoke's aster

  • Tanacetum coccineum 'Double Market Red' painted daisies

  • Tanacetum parthenium, Feverfew or Bachelor Buttons

  • Tanacetum parthenium 'Aureum,' Golden Feverfew

  • Tanacetum vulgare var crispum, Fernleaf Tansy

  • Trachelium caeruleum 'Midnight Blue' throatwort

  • Trifolium dubium, Least Hops Clover

  • Trifolium pratense, Sweet Purple Clover

  • Trifolium repens, wild white clover

  • Trifolium x repens 'Dragon's Blood' clover

  • Tropaeolum majus 'Alaska' dwarf variegated nasturtium

  • Typha minima, Dwarf Cattails, a bog garden charmer

  • Verbascum blattaria var albiflorum — White Moth Mullein

  • Verbena bonariensis, Brazillian Verbena

  • Verbena canadensis 'Homestead Purple' — a wondrous rediscovery

  • Verbena pedula 'Coral Red'

  • Veronica x longifolia 'Eviline'

  • Veronica persica, Persian Speedwell

  • Veronica spicata 'Red Fox' Spiked Speedwell

  • Veronica spicata x longifolia 'Glory' aka 'Royal Candles'