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, American Astilbe, Beard Tongue, Bee Balm, Shasta Daisy, the low maintenance Spike Gayfeather and White Gaura which is growing in popularity due to its gentle motion in the garden breezes.

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 and white flowering perennials are great at attracting butterflies and birds, particularly hummingbirds.

Wonderful non-native perennials that flower white are African Lily, Candytuft, Fountain Grass, Lenten Rose, Snow-In-Summer, Sweet William and Toad-lily.

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.

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