White Flowering Perennials
Below you will find a list of Perennials from our plant database that are white flowering. If you click on any of the photos, you will see a Virtual Plant Tag that may contain plant descriptions, usage suggestions and a link to where you can buy that plant for your landscaping.
Flowering perennials can be grown directly in the ground, in containers for patios and decks or in hanging baskets. Mixed containers are in vogue, often a blend of annuals, perennials, ornamental grasses and even tropicals to take the urn, window box or decorative planter through the spring, summer, fall until frost. Most of these perennials grow well with average soil moisture and partial or full sun, though some can take full shade giving the home gardener more options for use in the landscape.
Some perennials with white flowers are native plants, which are more naturally insect resistant, salt tolerant and have natural disease resistance. With almost too many to recommend, great native choices include Allegheny Foam Flower (Tiarella cordifolia), Asters, American Astilbe (Astilbe biternata), Beard Tongue (Penstemon), Bee Balm (Monarda), Bleeding Heart (Dicentra), Columbines (Aquilegia), Coral Bells (Heuchera sanguinea), Creeping Phlox, New England Asters, Shasta Daisy (Laucanthemum superbum), Spike Gayfeather, also known as Blazing Star and Snakeroot (Liatris spicata) is low maintainence, Texas Sage (Salvia greggii), White Gaura also known as Whirling Butterflies is growing in popularity with their gentle motion in the garden breezes (Gaura lindheimeri).
Wonderful non-native perennials that flower white are African Lily (Agapanthus), Anemone, Astilbe, Baby's Breath, Balloonflower, Bellflowers, Bethlehem Sage or Lungwort (Pulmonaria), Candytuft, Chrysanthemums, Clematis, Cranesbills or Hardy Geraniums, Crocus, Daffodils, Dahlia, Delphinium, Dianthus, Dittany (Dictamnus albus), Foxgloves, Fountain Grass, Hellebore or Lenten Rose, Hollyhock, Hosta, Ice Plants, Iris, Jacob's Ladder (Polemonium), Lavender, Lilies, Pansies, Pinks, Primrose, Rodgersia, Sedums, Snow-In-Summer, Spurge or Pachysandra, Rock-cresses (Arabis), Sweet William, Toad-lily, Torchlily (kniphofia), Tulips, White Autumn Monkshood or Wolfsbane (Aconitum), Yarrow (Achillea)
Perennials with white flowers add a brightness and softness to the landscape and works with cool colors of purple, blue and pink but also with warm colors of red, magenta, fuchsia and yellow. Perennials with white blooms look great with green and white leaves of variegated plants.
Flowering perennials are great at attracting butterflies and birds, particularly hummingbirds.