Plants that Tolerate Dry Conditions
Drought-tolerant plants are essential for sustainable gardening as they require minimal water, reducing your environmental footprint and conserving vital resources. There are many beautiful and low-maintenance plants that thrive in dry conditions and can tolerate drought.
Deciduous Shrubs
- Barberry
- Chokeberry
- Cotoneaster
- Currant
- Diervilla
- Honeysuckle
- Potentilla
- Rose
- Smokebush
- Snowberry, Red
- Spirea
- Sumac
Perennials & Grasses
- Achillea
- Aegopodium
- Andropogon, Big Bluestem
- Artemisia, Silver Mound
- Asclepias, Butterfly Flower
- Calamagrostis, Feather Reed
- Coreopsis, Moonbeam
- Coreopsis, Zagreb
- Festuca, Fescue Grass
- Gaillardia
- Helictotrichon, Blue Oat Grass
- Perovskia
- Schizachyrium, Little Bluestem
- Sedum
- Sporobolus, Prairie Dropseed
- Stachys, Lamb’s Ear
- Yucca