Perennials for zone 8
These 12,041 perennials grow in USDA zone 8. Zone 8 winters reach 10 to 20°F (-12 to -7°C). Garden centre favorites come first. Find your zone.
- 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
- Bronze Peacock rodgersiaRodgersia pinnata 'Bronze Peacock'Zones 5 to 8 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 2 ft
- Cotton Candy meadow rueThalictrum 'Cotton Candy'Zones 5 to 8 · Sun to part shade · 4 ft
- Firefly leopard plantFarfugium japonicum 'Firefly'Zones 7 to 9 · Part to full shade
- 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
- Spanish Peaks common foxgloveDigitalis thapsi 'Spanish Peaks'Zones 5 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 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
- algerian irisIris unguicularisZones 7 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 2 ft
- angel's fishing rodDierama pulcherrimumZones 7 to 10 · Full sun · 2 to 5 ft
- blue monkshoodAconitum uncinatumZones 4 to 8 · Part shade · 8 ft
- crimson flag lilyHesperantha coccineaZones 7 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 2 ft
- desert zinniaZinnia acerosaZones 6 to 10 · 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
- 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
- martin's spurgeEuphorbia martiniZones 6 to 11 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 2 ft
- maryland meadow beautyRhexia marianaZones 6 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 3 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
- parrot lilyAlstroemeria psittacinaZones 8 to 10 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 3 ft
- perfoliate bellwortUvularia perfoliataZones 4 to 8 · Sun to shade · 20"
- pinewoods milkweedAsclepias humistrataZones 6 to 9 · Full sun · 1 to 3 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
- 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
- yellow trumpetsSarracenia alataZones 6 to 8 · Sun to part shade · 3 ft
- youth on ageTolmiea menziesiiZones 6 to 9 · Part to full shade · 3 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
- bamboo irisIris wattiiZones 8 to 10 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 3 ft
- birthwortAristolochia clematitisZones 6 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 3 ft
- blood pinkDianthus cruentusZones 5 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 2 ft
- blue-eyed maryOmphalodes vernaZones 6 to 9 · Part shade · 12"
- 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
- Chinese violet cressOrychophragmus violaceusZones 7 to 10 · Full sun · 1 to 2 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"
- common spotted orchidDactylorhiza fuchsiiZones 6 to 8 · Sun to part shade · 1 to 2 ft
- dalmatian irisIris pallidaZones 5 to 9 · Sun to part shade · 2 to 3 ft
- diclipteraDicliptera squarrosaZones 8 to 10 · Sun to part shade · 2 ft