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ZONE EXPOSURE MATURE SIZE
A-6 Scientific Name 1 2 3 D or E NATIVE Sun Partial Shade Height Width TIME OF PLANT
Common Name
CHARACTERISTICS
BLOOM
Plant GROUNDCOVERS, ORNAMENTAL GRASSES, HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS, AND FERNS (CONTINUED)
List
Flowering may continue until
frost; flowers have rosy-purple
Wikipedia Commons Echinacea purpurea 3 D 36" to 48" 24" Mid-Summer hue with a large orange cone
in the center; many cultivars
to Late Fall
Purple coneflower
available with various flower
colors; thrives in full sun
Wide, course, prickly, grayish-
green leaves; spherical blue-
Echinops
Mid-Summer
Peggy Campbell Globe thistle 3 D 24" to 48" 18" to 24" to Late Fall purple flowers golf-ball sized;
great plant for butterflies/
pollinators; several species
Missouri Botanical Garden Elymus magellanicus 3 D 24" to 36" 18" to 24" Summer Metallic blue leaves; often
grown for foliage over summer-
blooming flowers; self seeds
Magellan wheatgrass
readily

Erigeron speciosus Leafy stems; produces clusters
'Darkest of All' 2 3 D 18" 24" Spring to of dark violet/lavender flowers
PNW Flowers Showy Fleabane other cultivars available
Summer
with bright yellow eye; various
Evergreen shrubs varying in
height, fragrance, and flower
Wikipedia Commons Erysimum 2 3 (Semi) 6" to 24" 12" to 24" Spring to Fall color. Many cultivars, such
E*
as 'Apricot Twist,' 'Fragrant
Shrubby wallflowers
Sunshine', 'John Coddington,'
and 'Wenlock Beauty,'
Festuca glauca E* Up to Up to Striking blue gray to silvery
WSU PNW Plants 'Elijah Blue' 3 (Semi) 12" 12" Summer white clumping grass;
good as edging
Blue fescue

Shiny, evergreen foliage with
King County Native Beach or coastal strawberry 2 3 D 6" to 10" Spreading Summer strawberries; great groundcover
large white flowers; small hairy
Fragaria chiloensis
36"
for weed control but will be an
aggressive spreader
Airy clusters of small,
attractive pink flowers; many
American Meadows Gaura lindheimeri 2 3 (Semi) 30" to 36" 30" to 36" May to cultivars available including
E*
‘Siskiyou Pink,’ 'Whirlling
August
Gaura or wand flower
Butterflies,' and 'Passionate
Rainbow'