High Altitude Gardening - Perennial Plant List

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This list below is a general guideline. Click on each plant's link to find details and a photo. Double check with your supplier of plants and seeds to be sure the variety you have chosen is suitable for your elevation.

Plants hardy to approximately 7000 feet:
Astilbe - Dwarf Pink Astible chinensis 'Pumila'
Coneflower Echinacea purprea 'Mangus'
Sun Daisy / African Daisy Osteospermum 'Lavender Mist"
Feather Reed Calmagrostis arundinacea 'Karl'
Germander Teucrium chamaedrys
Heavy Metal Switch Grass Panicum virgatum
Japanese / Hall's Honeysuckle Lonicera japonica
Iris - Variegated Iris pallida 'Variegata'
Lady's Mantle Alchemilla mollis
Maiden Grass Miscanthus sinensis
Plumbago Ceratostigma plumbaginoides
Plume Grass
Purple Leaved Winter Euonymus fortunei
Self Heal Prunella grandiflora
Trumpet Vine / Trumpet Creeper Campsis radicans
Zebra Grass Miscanthus sinensis

Plants hardy to7500 feet:
Creeping Jenny Lysimachia nummularia
Cupid's Dart Catananche caerulea
Fern - Japanese Athyrium niponicum
Hardy Ice Plant Delosperma
Jacob's Ladder Polemonium caeruleum
Lily of the Valley Convallaria majalis
Penstemon - Mexican Penstemon mexicale
Creeping Phlox /Moss Pinks / Mountain Pinks Phlox subulata
Pincushion Flower Scabiosa clombara cultivars
Poppy Mallow Callirhoe involucrata
Primrose Oenothera most cultivars
Purple Rock Cress Aubrieta deltoides

Salvia - Purple Rain Sage Salvia verticillata
Silver Mound Artemisia schmidtiana
Sunset Hyssop Agastache rupestris
Veronica - Creeping Veronica repens

Plants hardy to 8000 feet:
Ajuga - Carpet Bugle Ajuga reptans
Aster - Monch Aster alpinus
Artemesia Artemisia frigida
Balloon Flower Platycodon grandiflora
Bergenia - Pigsqueak Bergenia cordifolia
Black Snake Root Cimicifuga racemosa
Boltonia - Starflower Boltonia asteriodes
Boston Ivy Parthenocissus tricuspidata
Catmint Nepeta faassenii
Coral Bells Heucheria sanguinea
Pink Coreopsis Coreopsis rosea
False 4 Get Me Not Brunnera macrophylla
Gayfeather Liatris spicata
Geranium Johnson's Blue
Hosta - Francis Williams Hosta sieboldiana
Himalayan Border Jew Persicaria affinis
Hummingbird Flower Zauschneria garrettii
Ice Plants Delosperma nubigenum
Lamb's Ear Stachys lanata
Lavender Cotton Santolina chamaecyphrissus
Lily - Stargazer Lilium x 'Stargazer'
Lungwort Pulmonaria longifolia
Maiden Grass Miscanthus sinensis 'Gracillimus'
Maltese Cross Lychinis chalcedonica
Meadow Rue Thalictrum aquilegifolium
Mock Strawberry Duchesnea indica
Monkshood Aconitum napellus
Pentstemon / Beard Tongue
Garden Phlox Phlox paniculata
Prairie Coneflower Ratibida columnifera
Obedient Plants Physostegia virginiana
Red Hot Piker Kniphofia uvaria
Ribbon Grass Phalaris arundinacea
Sea Pinks Armeria maritima
Sedum most cultivars
Soapwort Saponaria ocymoides
Spiderwort Tradescantia x andersoniana
Spurge - Cushion Euphorbia polychroma
Strawberry - Lipstick Fragaria 'Lipstick'
Sun Rose Helianthemum nummularium
Yellow Archangel Lamiastrum galeobdolon

Plants hardy to 8500 feet:
Anemone-Northern Anemone canadensis
Alpine Asters
Astilbe - False Spirea Astilbe x japonica
Baby's BreathBaby's Breath Gypsophilia
Bee Balm Monarda didyma
Coral Bells Heuchera sanguinea
Coreopsis - Baby SunCoreopsis - Moonbeam
Corn Flower Centaurea montana
Daylily Hemerocallis hybrids
Dead Nettle Lamium maculatum Hybrids
Delphinium - Dwarf Delphinium grandiflorum Hybrids
Dianthus Dianthus gratianopolitanus Hybrids
English Lavender Lanandula angustifolia 'Munstead
Fleece Flower Fallopia japonica
Gaillardia Gaillardia Hybrids
Chrysanthemums
Globe Flower Trollius chinensis
Hosta - Gold Standard, Francis Williams
Periwinkle Vinca minor
Pincushion Flower Scabiosa caucasica
Potentilla - Himalayan Potentilla atrosanguinea
Primrose - Ozark Sun Oenothera macrocarps
Oat Grass - Blue Avena Helictotrichon sempervirens
Salvia - Dwarf Blue Salvia nemorosa
Sweet Woodruff Galium odoratum
Thyme - GardenThyme - Lemon Thymus vulgarisThymus citroides
Veronica -
Virginia Creeper Parthenocissus quinquefolia

Plants hardy to 9000 feet:
Anemone-Windflower Anemone canadensis
Bellflower Campanula persicifolia
Black-eyed Susan Rudbeckia fulgida
Bleeding Heart - Dwarf Dicentra x 'Luxuriant'
Blue Fescue Festuca glauca
Fleabane Erigeron 'Azure Fairy'
Gazania - Hardy Colo Gazania lineraris 'Colorado Gold"
Siberian Iris sibirica
Red Valerian Centranthus ruber cultivars
Thyme - Creeping Thymus praecos x 'Coccineus'
Viola Viola cornuta
Yarrow Achillea 'Moonshine'

Plants hardy to approximately 9500 feet
Basket of Gold Aurinia saxatilis
Daisy - Shasta Leucanthemum superbum 'Alaska'
Fireweed Epilobium angustifolium
Lupine Lupinus most cultivars
Peony Paeonia lactiflora
Sedum / Stonecrop
Snow on Mountain Aegopodium podograria
Yarrow - Achillea

Plants hardy to approximately 10,000 feet
Alpine Asters Aster x frikartii 'Monch'
Alpine Poppy Papaver alpinum
Japanese Anemone
Pasque Flower / Prairie Crocus
Bleeding Heart Dicentra spectabilis
Candytuft Iberis sempervirens
Columbine Aqueliegia hybrids
Daisy - Painted Tanacetum coccineum
Delphinium Delphinium elatum Hybrids
Dianthus-Swt William Dianthus barbatus
Flax - Blue Sapphire Linum perenne
Harebells / Campanula
Hen and Chicks Sempervivum cultivars
Kinnikinnick Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Prairie Smoke Guem triflorum
Oregon Grape Holly Mahonia repens
Penstemon - Dwarf Hairy Penstemon hirsutus 'Pygmaeus'
Poppy - California
Iceland Poppy
Poppy - Oriental Papaver orientale
Snow in Summer Cerastium tomentosum
Strawberry Waldsteninia ternata
Wild / Woodland Strawberry - Fragaria americana