Groupings
If you're not sure where to begin looking, perhaps the following designations will help:
spike: just that, a shoot with no apparent leaves
tree: looks like a small tree, small shoot, small leaves, may just be a clump of leaves
fountain: shoots, but generally leaves, emerging from a common point, as a fountain; this includes a fan of leaves such as daylilies and iris
| Scientific Name | Common Name (cultivar if shown) | habit |
| Achillea | Yarrow ('Moonshine') | tree |
| Achillea millefolium | Yarrow | tree |
| Aegopodium podagraria | Goutweed | tree |
| Amsonia tabernaemontana | Blue Stars | spike |
| Aquilegia | Columbine ('Chocolate Soldier') | tree |
| Artemisia schmidtiana | Silvermound Artemisia | tree |
| Aruncus dioicus | Goatsbeard | tree |
| Aster novae-angliae | New England Aster | fountain |
| Astilbe | Astilbe | tree |
| Baptisia australis | False Blue Indigo | spike |
| Boltonia asteroides | White Boltonia | tree |
| Campanula (takesimana) | Bellflower | tree |
| Centaurea (hypoleuca 'John Coutts') | Bluet | tree |
| Cimicifuga racemosa | Snakeroot | tree |
| Clematis | Clematis | spike |
| Coreopsis verticillata | Tickseed | spike |
| Corydalis (lutea) | Corydalis | tree |
| Delphinium elatior | Delphinium, hybrid | tree |
| Dicentra spectabilis | Old-fashioned Bleeding Heart | tree |
| Dicentra eximia | Fringed Bleeding Heart | tree |
| Erigeron | Fleabane | tree |
| Euphorbia (polychroma) | Spurge | spike |
| Filipendula | Meadowsweet ('Kahome') | tree |
| Filipendula rubra | Meadowsweet ('Venusta') | tree |
| Fragaria | Ornamental Strawberry ('Pink Panda') | tree |
| Geranium | Perennial Geranium | tree |
| Geum | Avens | tree |
| Helenium autumnale | Helen's Flower | fountain |
| Hemerocallis | Daylily | fountain |
| Heuchera | Coralbells | tree |
| Hosta | Plantain Lily | spike |
| Hosta lancifolia | Narrow-leaved Plantain Lily | spike |
| Iris | Bearded Iris | fountain |
| Iris sibirica | Siberian Iris | fountain |
| Leucanthemum | Shasta Daisy | fountain |
| Lilium | Lily | spike |
| Lysimachia (punctata) | Loosestrife | tree |
| Macleaya cordata | Plume Poppy | tree |
| Malva (alcea fastigiata) | Mallow | tree |
| Monarda didyma | Bee Balm | tree |
| Oenothera speciosa | Sundrops | fountain |
| Penstemon | Beardtongue ('Husker's Red') | fountain |
| Paeonia | Peony | tree |
| Phlox maculata | Phlox ('Miss Lingard') | fountain |
| Phlox paniculata | Tall Garden Phlox | fountain |
| Physostegia virginiana | Obedient Plant | fountain |
| Polemonium caeruleum | Jacob's Ladder ('Brise d'Anjou') | tree |
| Pulmonaria saccharata | Lungwort (spotted leaves, and Vinca) | tree |
| Rudbeckia fulgida | Black-eyed Susan ('Goldsturm') | tree |
| Rudbeckia laciniata hortensis | Golden Glow Rudbeckia | tree |
| Sanguisorba obtusa | Burnet | tree |
| Sedum | Sedum ('Autumn Joy') | tree |
| Solidago canadensis | Goldenrod | fountain |
| Solidago sphacelata | Goldenrod ('Golden Fleece') | tree |
| Thalictrum aquilegifolium | Columbine Meadow-Rue | tree |
| Thermopsis caroliniana | Southern Lupine | spike |
| Tiarella wherryi | Foamflower | tree |
| Veronica | Speedwell ('Sunny Border Blue') | tree |
