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.
- 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
- lilyLilium speciosumZones 5 to 7 · Sun to part shade · 4 to 5 ft
- missouri goldenrodSolidago missouriensisZones 3 to 8 · Full sun · 3 ft
- narrowleaf silkgrassPityopsis graminifoliaZones 5 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 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
- walter's violetViola walteriZones 5 to 9 · Part to full shade · 1 to 6"
- 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
- autumn goldenrodSolidago sphacelataZones 5 to 7 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 6 ft
- blood pinkDianthus cruentusZones 5 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 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"
- carthusian pinkDianthus carthusianorumZones 5 to 9 · Full sun · 2 to 3 ft
- columbineAquilegia caeruleaZones 3 to 10 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 2 ft
- comfreySymphytum grandiflorumZones 5 to 8 · Sun to part shade · 12 to 18"
- common lungwortPulmonaria officinalisZones 3 to 8 · Part to full shade · 6 to 12"
- dalmatian irisIris pallidaZones 5 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 3 ft
- 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
- meadow rueThalictrum kiusianumZones 5 to 8 · Sun to part shade · 3 to 6"
- Moroccan poppyPapaver atlanticumZones 5 to 7 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 2 ft
- mukdeniaMukdenia rossiiZones 4 to 8 · Part shade · 9 to 18"
- narrowleaf vervainVerbena simplexZones 4 to 8 · Full sun · 2 ft
- nettle-leaved mulleinVerbascum chaixiiZones 5 to 8 · Full sun · 2 to 3 ft
- panicledleaf ticktrefoilDesmodium paniculatumZones 5 to 10 · Part shade · 3 ft
- partridge featherTanacetum densumZones 4 to 9 · Full sun · 4 to 8"
- pink cinquefoilPotentilla hopwoodianaZones 5 to 9 · Full sun · 1 to 2 ft
- 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
- rodgersiaRodgersia podophyllaZones 5 to 8 · Part shade · 3 to 5 ft
- roof irisIris tectorumZones 4 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 12 to 18"
- Russian hibiscusKitaibelia vitifoliaZones 5 to 8 · Sun to part shade · 4 to 5 ft
- 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