Perennials for zone 5
These 11,417 perennials grow in USDA zone 5. Zone 5 winters reach -20 to -10°F (-29 to -23°C). Garden centre favorites come first. Find your zone.
- Summer Pastels yarrowAchillea 'Summer Pastels'Zones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade
- Immaculée peonyPaeonia lactiflora 'Immaculée'Zones 3 to 8 · 3 ft
- Nancy Nora peonyPaeonia lactiflora 'Nancy Nora'Zones 3 to 8 · 3 ft
- Paul M. Wild peonyPaeonia lactiflora 'Paul M. Wild'Zones 3 to 8 · 3 ft
- Sweet Romance lavenderLavandula angustifolia 'Sweet Romance'Zones 5 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 3 ft
- Apricot Beauty daylilyHemerocallis 'Apricot Beauty'Zones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 3 ft
- Arizona Red Shades blanket flowerGaillardia grandiflora 'Arizona Red Shades'Zones 3 to 10 · Full sun · 12"
- Cats Meow nepetaNepeta faassenii 'Cats Meow'Zones 3 to 8 · Full sun · 1 to 2 ft
- Dark Side of the Moon florist's spiraeaAstilbe 'Dark Side of the Moon'Zones 4 to 9 · Sun to shade · 2 ft
- Miss Manners obedient plantPhysostegia virginiana 'Miss Manners'Zones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 3 ft
- Purple Dome new england asterSymphyotrichum novae-angliae 'Purple Dome'Zones 5 to 8 · Sun to part shade · 2 ft
- Rosie Posie bill williams mountain giant hyssopAgastache 'Rosie Posie'Zones 5 to 9 · Full sun · 1 to 2 ft
- Spike cut-leaf kittentailVeronica 'Spike'Zones 4 to 8 · Sun to part shade · 18"
- Strawberry Candy daylilyHemerocallis 'Strawberry Candy'Zones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 3 ft
- Zagreb tickseedCoreopsis 'Zagreb'Zones 3 to 9 · Full sun · 12 to 18"
- Alaska shasta daisyLeucanthemum superbum 'Alaska'Zones 5 to 9 · Full sun · 2 to 3 ft
- Cat's Meow nepetaNepeta 'Cats Meow'Zones 3 to 8 · Sun to part shade · 14 to 20"
- Little Trudy nepetaNepeta 'Little Trudy'Zones 4 to 9 · Sun to part shade
- Paint the Town Magenta carnationDianthus 'Paint the Town Magenta'Zones 4 to 9 · Sun to part shade
- Peach Blossom astilbeAstilbe rosea 'Peach Blossom'Zones 4 to 9 · Part to full shade · 2 ft
- Wood asterSymphyotrichum 'Wood'Zones 4 to 8 · Full sun · 9 to 15"
- Yellow coneflowerEchinacea 'Yellow'Zones 3 to 8 · Sun to part shade
- American licoriceGlycyrrhiza lepidotaZones 3 to 9 · Part to full shade · 4 ft
- bush morning-gloryIpomoea leptophyllaZones 4 to 8 · Part shade · 3 ft
- Canadian milkvetchAstragalus canadensisZones 3 to 8 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 4 ft
- fly poisonAmianthium muscitoxicumZones 4 to 9 · Part shade · 2 ft
- goat's rueTephrosia virginianaZones 4 to 9 · Sun to shade · 1 to 2 ft
- moss campionSilene acaulisZones 3 to 5 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 4"
- nippon daisyNipponanthemum nipponicumZones 5 to 9 · Full sun · 1 to 3 ft
- seedboxLudwigia alternifoliaZones 4 to 8 · Full sun · 2 to 3 ft
- snow in summerCerastium tomentosumZones 3 to 7 · Sun to part shade · 12"
- soapwortSaponaria officinalisZones 3 to 8 · Full sun · 1 to 3 ft
- spotted water hemlockCicuta maculataZones 3 to 10 · Sun to part shade · 5 ft
- sweet violetViola odorataZones 4 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 4 to 6"
- white avensGeum canadenseZones 3 to 9 · Sun to shade · 2 to 3 ft
- winecupCallirhoe digitataZones 4 to 8 · Full sun · 8 to 20"
- barrenwortEpimedium wushanenseZones 5 to 9 · Part to full shade · 1 to 2 ft
- blue flaxLinum narbonenseZones 5 to 9 · Full sun · 1 to 2 ft
- giant sunflowerHelianthus giganteusZones 3 to 9 · Full sun · 12 ft
- kenilworth ivyCymbalaria muralisZones 5 to 8 · Part to full shade · 2 to 3"
- leopard plantLigularia dentataZones 3 to 8 · Part to full shade · 3 to 4 ft
- pulmonariaPulmonaria rubraZones 4 to 8 · Part to full shade · 9 to 12"
- purple giant hyssopAgastache scrophulariifoliaZones 3 to 8 · Sun to shade · 5 ft
- pyrethrum daisyTanacetum cinerariifoliumZones 4 to 10 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 2 ft
- rampionCampanula rapunculusZones 4 to 8 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 3 ft
- saxifrageSaxifraga crustataZones 5 to 8 · Part shade · 6 to 12"
- self healPrunella grandifloraZones 4 to 8 · Sun to part shade · 6 to 12"
- sulphur cinquefoilPotentilla rectaZones 3 to 8 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 3 ft
- sweetflagAcorus americanusZones 3 to 6 · Full sun · 2 to 4 ft
- verbascumVerbascum pyramidatumZones 4 to 8 · Full sun · 5 to 7 ft
- Virginia snakerootAristolochia serpentariaZones 5 to 9 · Part to full shade · 2 ft
- windflowerEriocapitella tomentosaZones 4 to 7 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 4 ft
- alfalfaMedicago sativaZones 3 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 3 ft
- alpine forget-me-notMyosotis alpestrisZones 4 to 8 · Full sun · 1 to 2 ft
- bishop's hatEpimedium grandiflorumZones 5 to 8 · Part to full shade · 9 to 18"
- broad leaved helleborineEpipactis helleborineZones 3 to 6 · Part to full shade · 1 to 3 ft
- Chinese astilbeAstilbe chinensisZones 4 to 8 · Part to full shade · 4 to 6 ft
- false asterAster yomenaZones 4 to 8 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 3 ft
- globe flowerTrollius cultorumZones 3 to 7 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 3 ft
- globe thistleEchinops bannaticusZones 4 to 9 · Full sun · 4 to 6 ft