All plants top out at 4ft. Consider using grasses and sedges to fill between plants or for a solid border for your garden.

Medium to Dry Sun

Golden Alexanders (Zizia aurea)
Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa)
Sullivant’s Milkweed (Asclepias sullivantii)
Orange Coneflower (Rudbeckia fulgida)
Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium)
Side Oats Grama (Bouteloua curtipendula)
Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
Wild Blue Indigo (Baptisia australis)
Ohio Spiderwort (Tradescantia ohiensis)
Shrubby St John’s Wort (Hypericum prolificum)
Aromatic aster (Symphyotrichum oblongifolium)
Button blazing star (Liatris aspera)

Medium to Dry Partial Shade

Scarlet bee balm (Monarda didyma)
Tall thimbleweed (Anemone virginiana)
Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
Downy Wood Mint (Blephilia ciliata)
Long Beaked Sedge (Carex sprengelii)
Midland Shooting Star (Dodecatheon meadia)
Wild geranium (Geranium maculatum)
Smooth Penstemon (Penstemon digitalis)
Western Indian Physic (Porteranthus stipulatus)
Clustered mountain mint (Pycnanthemum muticum)

Medium to Dry Shade

Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
Wild Ginger (Asarum canadense)
Common Wood Sedge (Carex blanda)
Pennsylvania sedge (Carex pensylvanica)
Wild geranium (Geranium maculatum)
Solomon’s plume (Maianthemum racemosum)
May apple (Podophyllum peltatum)
Common blue violets (Viola sororia)
Zigzag goldenrod (Solidago flexicaulis)
Bishop’s cap (Mitella diphylla)
Jacob’s ladder (Polemonium reptans)

Medium wet to Wet Sun and Partial Shade

Rose milkweed (Asclepias incarnata)
Turtlehead (Chelone glabra)
Blue flag (Iris virginica)
Marsh blazing star (Liatris spicata)
Cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis)
Great blue lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica)
Palm sedge (Carex muskingumensis)
Rattlesnake master (Eryngium yuccifolium)
Calico beardtongue (Penstemon calycosus)

Medium Wet to Wet Shade

Jack in the pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)
Eastern star sedge (Carex radiata)
Blue cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides)
Dutchman’s breeches (Dicentra cucullaria)
White trout Lilly (Erythronium albidum)
Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica)
Wild blue phlox (Phlox divaricata)
Jacob’s ladder (Polemonium reptans)
Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)
Large flowered trillium (Trillium grandiflorum)