Perennials for zone 3
These 8,397 perennials grow in USDA zone 3. Zone 3 winters reach -40 to -30°F (-40 to -34°C). Garden centre favorites come first. Find your zone.
- Red Beauty yarrowAchillea millefolium 'Red Beauty'Zones 3 to 8 · Full sun · 2 ft
- Rose and Pink columbineAquilegia 'Rose and Pink'Zones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 2 ft
- Scrumdidleumptious peonyPaeonia 'Scrumdidleumptious'Zones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 4 ft
- Smash Hit hostaHosta 'Smash Hit'Zones 3 to 9 · Part to full shade · 8 to 12"
- Star phloxPhlox 'Star'Zones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade
- Strawberry Crème Brulee peonyPaeonia 'Strawberry Crème Brulee'Zones 3 to 8 · Sun to part shade
- Younique Old Blue Garden phloxPhlox 'Younique Old Blue Garden'Zones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade
- Yumi peonyPaeonia 'Yumi (Beauty)'Zones 3 to 8 · Sun to part shade
- Zebra Stripes hostaHosta 'Zebra Stripes'Zones 3 to 9 · Part to full shade · 8 to 12"
- Almost Black dotleaf waterlilyNymphaea 'Almost Black'Zones 3 to 11 · Sun to part shade
- Arc En Ciel dotleaf waterlilyNymphaea 'Arc En Ciel'Zones 3 to 11 · Sun to part shade
- Attraction dotleaf waterlilyNymphaea 'Attraction'Zones 3 to 11 · Sun to part shade
- Bedazzled Pink phloxPhlox 'Bedazzled Pink'Zones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade
- Casablanca larkspurDelphinium 'Casablanca'Zones 3 to 7 · Full sun · 3 ft
- Charles de Meurville dotleaf waterlilyNymphaea 'Charles de Meurville'Zones 3 to 11 · Sun to part shade
- Denver dotleaf waterlilyNymphaea 'Denver'Zones 3 to 11 · Sun to part shade
- Emily Debatene peonyPaeonia 'Emily Debatene'Zones 3 to 8 · Sun to part shade
- Fabiola dotleaf waterlilyNymphaea 'Fabiola'Zones 3 to 11 · Sun to part shade
- Georgia Peach dotleaf waterlilyNymphaea 'Georgia Peach'Zones 3 to 12 · Sun to part shade
- Gonnere dotleaf waterlilyNymphaea 'Gonnere'Zones 3 to 11 · Sun to part shade
- Koppius peonyPaeonia 'Koppius'Zones 3 to 8 · Sun to part shade
- Little Sue dotleaf waterlilyNymphaea 'Little Sue'Zones 3 to 11 · Sun to part shade
- Madame Wilfron Gonnere dotleaf waterlilyNymphaea 'Madame Wilfron Gonnere'Zones 3 to 11 · Sun to part shade
- Northern Halo hostaHosta 'Northern Halo'Zones 3 to 9 · Part to full shade
- Silver Bullet hostaHosta 'Silver Bullet'Zones 3 to 9 · Part to full shade
- Sioux dotleaf waterlilyNymphaea 'Sioux'Zones 3 to 11 · Sun to part shade
- Sombrero Mandarin Mambo coneflowerEchinacea purpurea 'Sombrero Mandarin Mambo'Zones 3 to 8 · Sun to part shade
- Wild Lactiflora peonyPaeonia 'Wild Lactiflora'Zones 3 to 8 · Sun to part shade
- Variegated hostaHosta venusta 'Variegated'Zones 3 to 8 · Part to full shade · 3 to 6"
- Jacob black helleboreHelleborus niger 'Jacob'Zones 3 to 9 · Part to full shade · 12 to 18"
- Allegro oriental poppyPapaver orientale 'Allegro'Zones 3 to 7 · Full sun · 12 to 18"
- Black Pearls Chinese astilbeAstilbe chinensis 'Black Pearls'Zones 3 to 8 · Sun to shade · 1 to 3 ft
- Bressingham Ruby bergeniaBergenia 'Bressingham Ruby'Zones 3 to 8 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 2 ft
- Mighty Pip Chinese astilbeAstilbe chinensis 'Mighty Pip'Zones 3 to 8 · Sun to shade · 3 to 4 ft
- Orange Gnome catchflyLychnis 'Orange Gnome'Zones 3 to 9 · Full sun · 12 to 18"
- Petite Jenny ragged robinLychnis 'Petite Jenny'Zones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 2 ft
- Prince of Orange oriental poppyPapaver orientale 'Prince of Orange'Zones 3 to 7 · Full sun · 2 to 3 ft
- Ritro echinopsEchinops ritro 'Ritro'Zones 3 to 8 · Full sun · 1 to 3"
- Sherwood Purple phloxPhlox stolonifera 'Sherwood Purple'Zones 2 to 8 · Sun to shade · 3 to 6"
- Vision in White Chinese astilbeAstilbe chinensis 'Vision in White'Zones 3 to 8 · Sun to shade · 1 to 2 ft
- Mighty Chocolate Cherry Chinese astilbeAstilbe chinensis 'Mighty Chocolate Cherry'Zones 3 to 8 · Part to full shade · 2 to 4 ft
- Orchid Frost spotted dead nettleLamium maculatum 'Orchid Frost'Zones 3 to 8 · Part to full shade
- Rocky Mountain Blue Colorado blue columbineAquilegia coerulea 'Rocky Mountain Blue'Zones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 2 ft
- Aphrodite hostaHosta plantaginea 'Aphrodite'Zones 3 to 9 · Part to full shade · 1 to 2 ft
- SpinTop Red blanket flowerGaillardia aristata 'SpinTop Red'Zones 3 to 8 · Full sun
- downy gentianGentiana puberulentaZones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 2 ft
- green comet milkweedAsclepias viridifloraZones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 2 ft
- missouri goldenrodSolidago missouriensisZones 3 to 8 · Full sun · 3 ft
- oldwomanArtemisia stellerianaZones 3 to 9 · Full sun · 2 ft
- prairie groundselPackera plattensisZones 3 to 8 · Sun to shade · 2 ft
- purple locoweedOxytropis lambertiiZones 3 to 8 · Full sun · 20"
- redring milkweedAsclepias variegataZones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 3 ft
- short's asterSymphyotrichum shortiiZones 3 to 8 · Part to full shade · 5 ft
- silky prairie cloverDalea villosaZones 3 to 9 · Full sun · 20"
- smallspike false nettleBoehmeria cylindricaZones 3 to 10 · Sun to shade · 5 ft
- winged lythrumLythrum alatumZones 3 to 8 · Full sun · 5 ft
- American lopseedPhryma leptostachyaZones 3 to 8 · Sun to shade · 3 ft
- American water plantainAlisma subcordatumZones 3 to 9 · Full sun · 2 ft
- amethyst sea hollyEryngium amethystinumZones 3 to 8 · Full sun · 1 to 2 ft
- Canadian honewortCryptotaenia canadensisZones 3 to 9 · Part shade · 3 ft