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Low-maintenance, easy-care perennials include colorful blooming and decorative foliage plants. They come in all shapes, sizes, and colors and they return year after year. Over time, many perennials expand to fill in spaces in borders. As plants grow and become established, their vigor and resilience increases.

The term, 'perennial', applies specifically to perennial herbaceous plants, not shrubs and trees. Perennials grow and bloom during the months of spring and summer and become dormant through fall and winter. Their new growth each year comes from the plant's root-stock rather than by seeding itself as an annual plant does.

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Fern, athyrium niponicum 'Pictum'

Fern, athyrium niponicum 'Pictum'

Common Name: Fern, Japanese Painted

The 2004 Perennial Plant of the year, Athyrium niponicum 'Pictum' is a must-have for any shade garden. This variety of Japanese Painted Fern is low-maintenance and is one of the showiest ferns for shade gardens. 'Pictum' produces 12- to 18-inch fr...

Fern, athyrium niponicum var. pictum 'Burgundy Lace'

Fern, athyrium niponicum var. pictum 'Burgundy Lace'

Common Name: Fern, Japanese Painted Burgundy Lace

Burgundy Lace Painted Fern, or Japanese Painted Fern, is a ground fern grown for its delicate fronds in varying shades of burgundy, purple, and metallic silver often touched with pink. The fronds have a wide band of deep burgundy running down the cen...

Fern, dryopteris erythrosora

Fern, dryopteris erythrosora

Common Name: Fern, Autumn

Autumn Fern is a colorful fern with fronds that emerge coppery-green maturing to deep green by summer and to russet in the fall. Evergreen in mild winter regions, Autumn Fern is one of the easiest ferns to establish....

Fern, dryopteris erythrosora 'Brilliance'

Fern, dryopteris erythrosora 'Brilliance'

Common Name: Fern, Autumn Brilliance

Autumn Fern is a colorful groundcover with pink fiddleheads that turn an especially bright coppery orange as they unfurl. The fronds of 'Brilliance' age to a lustrous dark green and remain well into winter. New growth continues through the season,...

Fern, matteuccia struthiopteris

Fern, matteuccia struthiopteris

Common Name: Fern, Ostrich

Ostrich Fern is one of the largest and most popular ferns available. The dark green, pinnate fronds of Matteuccia struthiopteris are wide at the top and tapering down to a bare strip. This deciduous fern typically grows 2-3 feet tall in cultivatio...

Fern, osmunda cinnamomea

Fern, osmunda cinnamomea

Common Name: Fern, Cinnamon

Osmunda cinnamomea, or Cinnamon fern, is a Missouri native fern which occurs in moist, boggy ground along streams and on shaded ledges and bluffs, primarily in the eastern Ozark region of the State. Typically grows in clumps to 2-3...

Gaillardia x grandiflora 'Burgundy'

Gaillardia x grandiflora 'Burgundy'

Common Name: Blanket Flower

The wine-red blooms of Gaillardia 'Burgundy' measure a whopping 3 inches across. This blanket flower continues to provide interest as the middle of these striking red petals is a button-like center which emerges bright yellow and then slowly chang...

Gaillardia x grandiflora 'Fanfare'

Gaillardia x grandiflora 'Fanfare'

Common Name: Blanket Flower

Gaillardia x grandiflora 'Fanfare' features unique tubular petals that flare from brilliant scarlet to bright yellow at the tips. The upward-facing, daisy-like flowers are almost lacy in appearance and attractive to butterflies. Extremely free-flo...

Gaillardia x grandiflora 'Goblin'

Gaillardia x grandiflora 'Goblin'

Common Name: Blanket Flower

Gaillardia x grandiflora 'Goblin' is a dwarf selection of blanket flower with a neat mounding habit and colorful daisy-like maroon flowers with ragged yellow edges that appear June–August. The flowers are perched on short stems above mounds of lig...

Gaillardia x grandiflora 'Oranges and Lemons'

Gaillardia x grandiflora 'Oranges and Lemons'

Common Name: Blanket Flower

Gaillardia 'Oranges and Lemons' is a variety of blanket flower that boasts daisy style blooms about 2 inches wide, with bright tangerine petals tipped in yellow and surrounding a saucy orange-and-yellow central cone. The brightest and most cheerfu...

Geranium sanguineum 'Album'

Geranium sanguineum 'Album'

Common Name: Cranesbill

Geranium sanguineum 'Album', or 'Alba', features 5-petaled, clear white flowers and small, dark green leaves. Primarily blooms in May and June with a sparser rebloom occurring throughout the summer. One of the best choices for massed plantings, fi...

Geranium sanguineum 'Brookside'

Geranium sanguineum 'Brookside'

Common Name: Cranesbill

Geranium sanguineum 'Brookside' displays its deep violet-blue flowers all summer long against a backdrop of finely divided foliage. Also known as cranesbill, this pretty hybrid is distinguished by its neat mounded habit and long blooming period. T...

Geranium sanguineum 'Max Frei'

Geranium sanguineum 'Max Frei'

Common Name: Cranesbill

Geranium sanguineum 'Max Frei' is a free-flowering cranesbill with a compact mounding habit. This shorter variety forms a low mound of fine-textured green foliage, bearing a nice display of bright magenta-pink flowers in late spring and well into the...

Geranium sanguineum 'Rozanne'

Geranium sanguineum 'Rozanne'

Common Name: Cranesbill

Geranium sanguineum 'Rozanne' offers a low, rambling habit and medium green leaves that are deeply divided. From late spring to fall, this hardy cranesbill produces lovely violet-blue cup-shaped flowers with white centers and purple veins. Foliage...

Grass, Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster'

Grass, Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster'

Common Name: Grass, Feather Reed

Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster' or Feather Reed Grass has a strict upright habit with golden wheat-like plumes that appear in spring until fall. At first, they are feathery and pinkish in color, then as the weather gets warmer, they become...

Grass, Chasmanthium latifolium

Grass, Chasmanthium latifolium

Common Name: Northern Sea Oats

This clump-forming, upright, ornamental grass is a Missouri native plant and is perhaps most distinguished by t...

Grass, Festuca glauca 'Boulder Blue'

Grass, Festuca glauca 'Boulder Blue'

Common Name: Grass, Blue Fescue

Versatile and pretty, festuca glauca 'Boulder Blue' or blue fescue is a semi-evergreen ornamental grass that is similar to the 'Elijah Blue' variety, but is shorter in height with taller flower stalks. 'Boulder Blue' is known ...

Grass, Festuca glauca cinerea 'Elijah Blue'

Grass, Festuca glauca cinerea 'Elijah Blue'

Common Name: Grass, Blue Fescue

Festuca glauca 'Elijah Blue' is a Blue Fescue grass that is deep sea blue in color. 'Elijah Blue' is a low-growing, semi-evergreen ornamental grass noted for its finely-textured, silver-blue foliage. Foliage forms a dome-shaped, porcupine-like tuft o...

Grass, Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola'

Grass, Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola'

Common Name: Grass, Japanese Forest

A grass for shade! Hakonechloa macra ‘Aureola’ is a golden-striped form of Hakone grass. Few grasses have the elegant beauty of golden Japanese forest grass and even fewer are well adapted to shade. This clump-forming, variegated grass...

Grass, Helictotrichon sempervirens

Grass, Helictotrichon sempervirens

Common Name: Grass, Blue Oat

Helictotrichon sempervirens, or Blue Oat Grass features very narrow, spiky, steel blue leaf blades which form a rounded, porcupine-like clump. Resembles blue fescue, but is significantly larger. Spikes of bluish-brown flowers arranged in open, one-si...

Grass, Koeleria macrantha

Grass, Koeleria macrantha

Common Name: Prairie Junegrass

Koeleria macrantha, or Prairie Junegrass, is a cool season, clump-forming, tufted, perennial bunch grass that is native in Missouri, typically found in dry prairies and open woods in the southwestern and central parts of the s...

Grass, Miscanthus sinensis 'Gracillimus'

Grass, Miscanthus sinensis 'Gracillimus'

Common Name: Grass, Maiden

Miscanthus sinensis 'Gracillimus', or Maiden Grass, has narrow leaves with white variegation and a vase-like form reaching 6 feet tall. In the fall, the grass turns a nice yellowish-bronze to straw-colored and stands throughout winter to provide arch...

Grass, Miscanthus sinensis 'Purpurascens'

Grass, Miscanthus sinensis 'Purpurascens'

Common Name: Grass, Flame

Miscanthus sinensis Purpurascens, also known as Autumn Flame Grass, is a clump grass with medium textured green foliage that begins to change color in September and by late fall is a brilliant orange-red. Flame grass really stands out in the fall gar...

Grass, Miscanthus sinensis 'Silberfeder'

Grass, Miscanthus sinensis 'Silberfeder'

Common Name: Grass, Silver Feather

Give this grass plenty of room! The tall, variegated Japanese silvergrass, ‘Silver Feather, originates from eastern Asia and has a graceful arching habit. Its long slender blades are dark green with razor thin white midribs a...

Grass, Panicum virgatum 'Shenandoah'

Grass, Panicum virgatum 'Shenandoah'

Common Name: Grass, Switch

Panicum virgatum 'Shenandoah' is a very bright red Panicum, also known as Switch Grass. Foliage emerges bluish-green but rapidly turns burgundy-red by early summer to form a compact, narrow, erect, 3ft tall clump of foliage which is topped by reddish...

Grass, Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Hameln'

Grass, Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Hameln'

Common Name: Grass, Dwarf Fountain

Dwarf Fountain Grass offers arching, deep green foliage in a compact growth habit. One of the most versatile of all ornamental grasses, it is also one of the most popular Pennisetum cultivars. The 'Hameln' variety has leaves that are deep green in...

Grass, Schizachyrium scoparium

Grass, Schizachyrium scoparium

Common Name: Grass, Little Bluestem

Schizachyrium scoparium, or Little Bluestem, is one of the dominant grasses which grow in the rich and fertile soils of the tallgrass prairie. Forms upright clumps of slender green leaves with a tinge of blue at the base which deepens almost into pur...

Grass, Schizachyrium scoparium 'The Blues'

Grass, Schizachyrium scoparium 'The Blues'

Common Name: Grass, Little Bluestem

Schizachyrium scoparium 'The Blues', also known as Little Bluestem, is a true blue grass that is perfect for mass plantings. Little Bluestem is partial to heat and humidity and prefers dry soil. Purplish-bronze flowers appear above the foliage in Aug...

Grass, Sporobolus heterolepis

Grass, Sporobolus heterolepis

Common Name: Grass, Prairie Dropseed

Sporobolus heterolepis, or Prairie Dropseed, is a Missouri native and prefers well-drained, rocky sites. Fine-textured, medium green leaves typically form an arching mound. Foliage turns golden with orange hues in fall, fading to light bronze in wint...