Perennials that Last Late Season: Plant List

The top five players in the late season garden would have to be Aster (asters), Chrysanthemum, Solidago (goldenrods), Eupatorium (Joe-Pye weed), and Sedum (Stonecrops). Below is a slightly longer list to keep your garden in color throughout the season. Plants with an asterisk (*) are not in flower during September and October, but the ornamental value of their seedheads or colorful leaves can last well into the fall.

Deer Resistant Plants:
Aconitum (monk's hood)
Agastache (giant hyssop)
Allium (ornamental onions)*
Amsonia (blue star)*
Anemone (anemone)
Artemesia (mugwort)
Aruncus (goatsbeard)*
Asclepias (milkweed or butterfly flower)*
Astilbe (astilbe)*
Baptisia (false indigo)*
Bergenia (bergenia)*
Boltonia (boltonia)
Ceratostigma (plumbago)
Chelone (turtleheads)
Cimicifuga (bugbane)
Coreopsis (tickseed)
Dendranthema (chrysanthemum)
Echinacea (cone flower)
Eupatorium (Joe-Pye weed)
Euphorbia (spurges)*
Helenium (sneezeweed)
Helianthus (perennial sunflowers)
Kirengeshoma (yellow waxbells)
Kniphofia (red hot pokers)
Ligularia (senecio)
Ornamental Grasses
Perovskia (Russian sage)
Ratibida (prairie coneflower)
Rudbeckia (black-eyed Susan)
Sidalcea (miniature hollyhocks)
Solidago (goldenrods)
Tradescantia (spiderwort)
Vernonia (New York ironweed)
Yucca (yucca)

Colorful Foliage:
Amsonia (blue star)
Bergenia (bergenia)
Ceratostigma (plumbago)
Cornus canadensis (bunchberry)
Dryopteris erythrosora (autumn fern)
Epimedium (barrenwort)
Euphorbia (spurge)
Geranium (crane's bill, geranium)
Oenothera (evening-primrose)
Schizachyrium 'The Blues' (blue bluestem)

Attractive Seed Heads and Plants that Age Well:
Actaea (red baneberry)
Allium (ornamental onions)
Artemisia lactiflora 'Guizho' (mugwort)
Aruncus (goatsbeard)
Asclepias (milkweed or butterfly flower)
Astilbe (astilbe)
Baptisia (false indigo)
Boltonia (boltonia)
Echinacea (coneflower)
Echinops (globe thistles)
Eryngium (sea hollies)
Euphorbia (spurges)
Iris sibirica (Siberian iris)
Ornamental Grasses
Perovskia (Russian sage)
Ratibida (prairie coneflower)
Rudbeckia (black-eyed Susan)
Sanguisorba (burnet)
Sedum (stonecrop)
Yucca (yucca)

Classic Fall Bloomers:
Aster (aster)
Kalimeris (Japanese-aster)

Season: Fall