Blue,
Lavender, or
Purple Flowers
PERENNIALS AND BIENNIALS
SPRING
Ajuga reptans
(bugleweed)
Aubrieta deltoidea
'Purple Gem,' 'Royal Blue' (rock cress)
Brunnera macrophylla (Siberian bugloss)
Iris cristata (crested iris)
Iris siberica 'Blue Brilliant,' 'Blue Moon,' 'Caesar's Brother,'
'Pembina,'
'Perry's Blue,' 'Silver Edge' (Siberian iris)
Lunaria annua alba (money-plant, honesty)
Mertensia virginica (Virginia bluebells)
Myosotis scorpioides (forget-me-not)
Omphaloides verna (blue-eyed Mary)
Phlox divaricata laphamii, 'Dirigo Ice' (woodland phlox)
Phlox stonifera 'Blue Ridge,' 'Sherwood Purple' (creeping phlox)
Phlox subulata 'Cushion Blue,' 'Emerald Blue' (moss pink)
Polemonium caeruleum 'Blue Pearl' (Jacob's ladder)
Pulmonaria spp. (lungworts)
Pulsatilla vulgaris (pasque flower)
Viola cornuta 'Jersey Gem' (horned violet)
Viola labrodorica (Labrador violet)
Viola odorata (sweet violet)
SUMMER
Anchusa azurea
(Italian bugloss)
Aquilegia x hybrida 'Heavenly Blue' (columbine)
Baptisia australis (blue wild indigo)
Campanula carpatica (Carpathian bellflower)
Centaurea montana (mountain bluet)
Delphinium x elatum 'Blue Bird,' 'Blue Jay,' 'Summer Skies'
(delphinium)
Dianthus barbatus (sweet William)
Erigeron x hybridus (fleabane)
Geranium himalayense 'Johnson's Blue' (Himalayan cranesbill)
Geranium pratense 'Mrs. Kendall Clarke' (wild cranesbill)
Iris ensata 'Activity,' Favour,' 'Moriah' (Japanese iris)
Iris hybrida 'Blue Staccato,' 'Midnight Hour,' 'Sapphire Hills'
(bearded iris)
Lavandula angustifolia 'Hidcote,' 'Munstead Dwarf' (lavender)
Limonium latifolium (sea lavender)
Linum perenne (blue flax)
Lupinus hybrids 'The Governor' (lupine)
Mazus reptans (mazus)
Monarda didyma 'Blue Stocking,' 'Purple Crown' (bee balm)
Nepeta x faassenii (catmint)
Penstemon barbatus 'Prairie Dusk' (beard-tongue)
Phlox paniculata 'Blue Boy,' 'Blue Lagoon,' 'The King' (garden
phlox)
Platycodon grandiflorus (balloon flower)
Prunella x webbiana 'Purple Loveliness' (self-heal)
Salvia x superba (hybrid blue salvia)
Scabiosa caucasica 'Blue Butterfly,' 'Blue Danube,' 'Klaus Jelitto'
(pincushion flower)
Scutellaria baicalensis (skullcap)
Stokesia laevis 'Blue Danube,' 'Compliment' (Stokes' aster)
Thalictrum aquilegifolium (columbine meadow-rue)
Thalictrum rochebrunianum (Japanese meadow-rue)
Tradescantia x andersoniana 'Zwanenburg Blue' (spiderwort)
Verbena bonariensis (Brazilian verbena)
Verbena canadensis 'Homestead Purple' (clumb verbena)
Veronica latifolia 'Crater Lake Blue' (Germander speedwell)
Veronica longifolia 'Blue Charm,' Foerster's Blue' (speedwell)
Veronica spicata 'Blue Peter,' 'Sunny Border Blue' (spiked speedwell)
LATE SUMMER AND FALL
Aconitum spp.
(monkshood)
Aster azureus (sky blue prairie aster)
Aster novi-belgii x novae-angliae 'Blue Gown,' Eventide,' 'Hella
Lacy,'
'Marie Ballard,' 'Purple Dome,' 'Professor Kippenburg,' (Michaelmas daisy,
fall aster)
Aster x frikartii 'Monch' (Frikart's aster)
Ceratostigma plumbaginoides (leadwort)
Echinops ritro 'Taplow Blue,' 'Taplow Purple,' 'Veitche's Blue
(globe-thistle)
Eupatorium coelestinum (mist flower)
Gentiana spp. (gentians)
Liriope muscari 'Big Blue,' 'Royal Purple' (blue lilyturf)
Lobelia siphilitica (big-blue lobelia)
Perovskia atriplicifolia (Russian sage)
Salvia pratensis (meadow sage)
ANNUALS
Ageratum houstonianum
'Blue Blazer,' 'Blue Improved,' 'Blue Ribbon,'
'Capri,' 'Hawaii Hybrid' (flossflower)
Antirrhinum majus 'Floral Showers Purple,' 'Liberty Lavender'
(snapdragon)
Borago officinalis (borage)
Brachycome iberidifolia 'Blue Splendor,' 'Blue Star,' 'Purple
Splendor' (swan river daisy)
Browallia speciosa 'Blue Bells Improved,' 'Blue Troll,' 'Marine
Bells,' 'Powder Blue' (amethyst flower)
Callistephus chinensis 'Matsumoto Blue,' 'Matsumoto Light Blue'
(China aster)
Centaurea cyanus 'Blue Boy Double,' 'Blue Diadem,'
'Dwarf Blue Midget,' 'Jubilee Gem' (bachelor's button)
Consolida ambigua 'Blue Spire,' 'Giant Dark Blue,'
'Giant Light Blue,' 'Imperial Blue Bell' (rocket larkspur)
Cynoglossum amabile 'Blue Showers' (Chinese forget-me-not)
Eustoma grandiflora 'Blue Lisa,' 'Blue Picotee,' 'Misty Blue'
(prairie gentian)
Felicia amelloides (blue daisy)
Gomphrena globosa 'Purple Buddy' (globeflower)
Impatiens wallerana 'Accent Laender-blue,' 'Blue Pearl,' 'Tempo
Lavdnder' (impatiens)
Ipomoea tricolor 'Heavenly Blue' (morning glory)
Lantana montevidensis (weeping lantana)
Lobelia erinus 'Blue Cascade,' 'Sapphire,' 'Crystal Palace,'
'Cambridge Blue' (edging lobelia)
Lupinus texensis (Texas blue-bonnet)
Nurembergia hippomanica violacea 'Purple Robe' (cupflower)
Nigella damascena (love-in-a-mist)
Petuna x hybrida 'Blue Joy,' 'Blue Lace,' 'Blue Skies,' 'Lacy
Sails,' 'Midnight Madness,'
'Plum Blue,' 'Plum Purple,' 'Prime Time Blue,' 'Prime Time Light Blue,' 'Purple
Joy,'
'Sky Joy,' 'Ultra Blue,' 'Ultra Blue Star,' (petunia)
Phlox drummondii 'Palona Light Blue' (annual phlox)
Salvia farinacea 'Victoria' (mealy-cup sage)
Salvia viridis 'Oxford Blue (painted sage)
Torenia fournieri 'Blue Panda,' 'Clown Blue,' 'Clown Violet'
(wishbone flower)
Verbena speciosa 'Imagination'
(verbena)
Verbena x hybrida 'Armour Purple' (verbena)
Viola x wittrockiana 'Accord Blue Blotch,' 'Universal Blue Blotch,'
'Universal Light Blue,'
'Universal Purple,' 'Universal True Blue,' 'Vicking Blue,' 'Vicking Purple'
(pansy)
BULBS
SPRING
Allium aflatunense
'Purple Sensation' (Persian onion)
Allium azureumbi (blue globe onion)
Allium christophii (star-of-Persia)
Allium giganteum (giant onion)
Anemone blanda 'Blue Shades,' 'Blue Star' (Grecian windflower)
Brodiaea coronaria 'Queen Fabiola' (triplet lily)
Chionodoxa luciliae (glory-of-the-snow)
Crocus chrysanthus 'Blue Ribbon' (snow crocus)
Crocus x vernus 'Purpurea,' 'Queen of the Blues,' 'Remembrance'
(Dutch crocus)
Fritillaria meleagris (checkered lily)
Fritillaria persica (Persian fritillaria)
Hyacinthoides hispanica 'Blue Queen,' 'Excelsior' (wood hyacinth)
Hyacinthus orientalis 'Blue Jacket,' 'Delft Blue,' 'Wedgewood'
(Dutch hyacinth)
Iris reticulata (reticulated iris)
Muscari armeniacum 'Blue Spike' (blue grape hyacinth)
Muscari azureum (azure grape hyacinth)
Muscari botryoides (grape hyacinth)
Puschkinia scilloides (striped squill)
Scilla siberica 'Spring Beauty' (Siberian squill)
Tulipa x hybrida 'Blue Aimable,' 'Blue Parrot,' 'Boccherini,'
'Cum Laude,'
'Dr. An Wang,' 'Hans Anrud,' 'Purple Star' (hybrid tulip)
SUMMER
Agapanthus africanus nana
'Blue Peter' (African lily)
Camassia leichtlinii (camas)
Iris x xiphium 'Ideal,' 'Professor Blaaux,' 'Purple Sensation'
(Dutch iris)
LATE SUMMER AND FALL
Agapanthus africanus nana
'Blue Peter' (African lily)
Allium senescens glaucum (fall lily leek)
Allium sphaerocephalum (drumstick chives)
