Perennials for zone 4
These 10,364 perennials grow in USDA zone 4. Zone 4 winters reach -30 to -20°F (-34 to -29°C). Garden centre favorites come first. Find your zone.
- Prince of Orange oriental poppyPapaver orientale 'Prince of Orange'Zones 3 to 7 · Full sun · 2 to 3 ft
- Purple Candles Chinese astilbeAstilbe chinensis 'Purple Candles'Zones 4 to 9 · Sun to shade · 3 to 4 ft
- Red Fox spiked speedwellVeronica spicata 'Red Fox'Zones 4 to 8 · Full sun · 1 to 2 ft
- Red Rocks beardtonguePenstemon mexicali 'Red Rocks'Zones 4 to 8 · Sun to part shade · 1 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"
- Sweet Tea heucherellaHeucherella 'Sweet Tea'Zones 4 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 3 ft
- 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
- biennial beeblossomOenothera gauraZones 4 to 7 · Part to full shade · 6 ft
- blue monkshoodAconitum uncinatumZones 4 to 8 · Part shade · 8 ft
- Carolina springbeautyClaytonia carolinianaZones 4 to 7 · Sun to part shade · 10"
- downy gentianGentiana puberulentaZones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 2 ft
- eastern shooting starPrimula meadiaZones 4 to 8 · Part shade · 1 to 2 ft
- gray's lilyLilium grayiZones 4 to 5 · Sun to part shade · 4 ft
- green comet milkweedAsclepias viridifloraZones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 2 ft
- Korean mintAgastache rugosaZones 4 to 9 · Full sun · 3 to 4 ft
- missouri goldenrodSolidago missouriensisZones 3 to 8 · Full sun · 3 ft
- oldwomanArtemisia stellerianaZones 3 to 9 · Full sun · 2 ft
- pale Indian plantainArnoglossum atriplicifoliumZones 4 to 8 · Sun to part shade · 10 ft
- perfoliate bellwortUvularia perfoliataZones 4 to 8 · Sun to shade · 20"
- 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
- scaly blazing starLiatris squarrosaZones 4 to 8 · Full sun · 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
- alpine columbineAquilegia alpinaZones 4 to 8 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 2 ft
- American columboFrasera caroliniensisZones 4 to 8 · Part to full shade · 8 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 burnetSanguisorba canadensisZones 4 to 6 · 6 ft
- Canadian honewortCryptotaenia canadensisZones 3 to 9 · Part shade · 3 ft
- caraway thymeThymus herba-baronaZones 4 to 8 · Full sun · 3 to 6"
- columbineAquilegia caeruleaZones 3 to 10 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 2 ft
- common lungwortPulmonaria officinalisZones 3 to 8 · Part to full shade · 6 to 12"
- ditch stonecropPenthorum sedoidesZones 2 to 9 · Part shade · 3 ft
- fan clubmossLycopodium digitatumZones 3 to 8 · Part to full shade · 3 to 8"
- fern-leaf yarrowAchillea filipendulinaZones 3 to 9 · Full sun · 3 to 4 ft
- glade mallowNapaea dioicaZones 3 to 6 · Part shade · 9 ft
- great globe thistleEchinops sphaerocephalusZones 3 to 9 · Full sun · 2 to 3 ft
- great waterleafHydrophyllum appendiculatumZones 3 to 7 · Part to full shade · 2 ft
- Japanese primrosePrimula japonicaZones 4 to 8 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 2 ft
- java waterdropwortOenanthe javanicaZones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 3 ft
- mukdeniaMukdenia rossiiZones 4 to 8 · Part shade · 9 to 18"
- narrowleaf vervainVerbena simplexZones 4 to 8 · Full sun · 2 ft
- partridge featherTanacetum densumZones 4 to 9 · Full sun · 4 to 8"
- rampion bellflowerCampanula rapunculoidesZones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 4 ft
- red feather cloverTrifolium rubensZones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 2 ft
- roof irisIris tectorumZones 4 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 12 to 18"
- silvery cinquefoilPotentilla argenteaZones 3 to 7 · Sun to part shade · 6 to 12"
- smooth purple coneflowerEchinacea laevigataZones 3 to 8 · Sun to part shade · 3 to 5 ft
- speedwellVeronica liwanensisZones 4 to 9 · Full sun · 3"