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Long-blooming perennials
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Easy Perennials
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Shade Perennials
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| The following perennials can be used effectively as ground covers | ||||
| Scientific Name | Common Name | Exposure | Bloom Period | Color |
| Acinos alpinus | Alpine Calamint | sun | June-July | purple |
| Ajuga | Bugleweed | sun to shade | May | blue |
| Alchemilla mollis | Lady's Mantle | sun to shade | May-June | chartreuse |
| Anemone sylvestris | Snowdrop Anemone | shade | May-June | white |
| Arenaria montana | Sandwort | sun | May-June | white |
| Carex flacca | Blue Sedge | partial shade | grown for foliage | blue foliage |
| Carex 'Ice Dance' | Ice Dance Sedge | partial shade | grown for foliage | varieg. Foliage |
| Campanula portenschlagiana | Dalmation Bellflower | sun-partial shade | June-Aug | blue |
| Cerastium tomentosum | Snow in Summer | sun | May | white, silver |
| Ceratostigma plumbaginoides | Plumbago | sun-partial shade | Aug-Oct | blue |
| Dianthus 'Bath's Pink' | Pinks | sun | June | pink |
| Epimedium | Barrenwort | shade | April-May | various |
| Euphorbia myrsinites | Donkey-tail Spurge | sun | April-May | yellow |
| Gallium odoratum | Sweet Woodruff | shade | May | white |
| Gypsophila repens | Creeping Baby's Breath | sun | June-Aug | white, pink |
| Hemerocallis Stella d' Oro | Stella d' Oro Daylily | sun | May-Sept | gold |
| Hosta varieties | Hosta | shade | June-Sept | foliage |
| Hypericum calycinum | St. John's Wort | sun-partial shade | June-Aug | yellow |
| Iberis sempervirens | Candytuft | sun | May | white |
| Lamium | Dead Nettle | partial shade | May-Sept | various |
| Lamiastrum galeobdolon | Yellow Archangel | part-full shade | June | yellow |
| Lysimachia nummularia | Creeping Jenny | part-full shade | May-June | yellow foliage |
| Phlox divaricata | Wild Sweet William | partial shade | May-June | blue, white |
| Phlox stolonifera | Woodland Phlox | partial shade | May | various |
| Phlox subulata | Creeping Phlox | sun | April-May | various |
| Polemonium reptans | Creeping Jacob's Ladder | partial shade | May | blue |
| Saponaria ocymoides | Soapwort | sun | June | pink |
| Scutellaria | Skullcap | sun | June-July | various |
| Sedum 'Bertram Anderson' | Stonecrop | sun | Aug-Sept | rose |
| Sedum cauticola | Stonecrop | sun | Aug-Sept | pink |
| Sedum 'Czar's Gold' | Stonecrop | sun | May | yellow |
| Sedum Ellacombianum | Stonecrop | sun | June-July | yellow |
| Sedum 'Rosy Glow' | Stonecrop | sun | Aug-Sept | rose |
| Sedum sieboldi | Stonecrop | sun | Sept-Oct | pink |
| Sedum spurium 'Red Carpet' | Stonecrop | sun | June-July | red |
| Sedum spurium 'VooDoo' | Stonecrop | sun | June-July | red |
| Sedum 'Vera Jameson' | Stonecrop | sun | Aug-Sept | rose |
| Silene maritima | Silene | sun | May-June | white, pink |
| Stachys lanata | Lamb's Ears | sun | June | silver foliage |
| Stachys Helene von Stein | Lamb's Ears | sun | n/a | silver foliage |
| Thymus 'Doone Valley' | Doone Valley Thyme | sun | May-June | lavender |
| Thymus lanuginosus | Wooly Thyme | sun | May-June | gray foliage |
| Thymus 'Magic Carpet' | Magic Carpet Thyme | sun | May-June | lavender |
| Thymus serphyllum | Creeping Thyme | sun | May-June | lavender |
| Veronica Aztec Gold | Speedwell | sun-partial shade | May-June | yellow foliage |
| Veronica Waterperry | Speedwell | partial shade | May-July | lavender |
| Viola labradorica | Labrador Violet | partial shade | April-May | purple foliage |