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Late-Season Perennials: Home
Rudbeckia subtomentosa 'Henry Eilers'; photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Perennials are a wonderful addition to any garden and can provide color and interest throughout the year. The top 5 players in the late-season garden would have to be asters (Aster), chrysanthemums (Dendranthema), goldenrods (Solidago), Joe-Pye weed (Eutrochium) and stonecrops (Sedum). Below is a longer list to keep your garden in color throughout the fall season.
Deer-Resistant Plants
Botanical Name
Common Name
Aconitum
monkshood
Agastache
giant hyssop
Allium
ornamental onion*
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
coneflower
Eutrochium
Joe Pye weed
Euphorbia
spurges*
Helenium
sneezeweed
Helianthus
perennial sunflower
Kirengeshoma
yellow waxbells
Kniphofia
red hot pokers
Ligularia
ligularia
ornamental grasses
Perovskia
Russian sage
Ratbida
prairie coneflower
Rudbeckia
black-eyed Susan
Sidalcea
miniature hollyhocks
Solidago
goldenrods
Tradescantia
spiderwort
Vernonia
New York ironweed
Yucca
yucca
*These plants are not in bloom during September and October, but they have ornamental value, for either seedheads or colorful foliage.
Colorful cyathia of Euphorbia characias subsp. wulfenii 'Shorty'; photo by Ivo Vermeulen