Wildflowers for Shade

• Allegheny Fringe Adlumia fungosa
• White Snakeroot Ageratina altissima
• Spikenard Aralia racemosa
• Jack-in-the-Pulpit Arisaema triphyllum
• Wild Ginger Asarum canadense
• Blue Cohosh Caulophyllum thalictroides
• Goldthread Coptis trifolia
• Bunchberry Cornus canadensis
• Large-leaved Aster Eurybia macrophylla
• Wild Geranium Geranium maculatum
• Creeping Snowberry Gaultheria hispidula
• Wintergreen Gaultheria procumbens
• Virginia Waterleaf Hydrophyllum virginianum
• Twinflower Linnaea borealis
• Starflower Lysimachia borealis (formerly Trientalis borealis)
• Canada Mayflower Maianthemum canadense
• Partridgeberry Mitchella repens
• Mitrewort Mitella diphylla
• Common Wood Sorrel Oxalis montana
• Tall Jacob’s Ladder Polemonium acutifolium
• Creeping Jacob’s Ladder Polemonium reptans
• Bloodroot Sanguinaria canadensis
• Wood Poppy Stylophorum diphyllum
• Blue-stemmed Goldenrod Solidago caesia
• Early Meadow-rue Thalictrum dioicum
• Foamflower Tiarella cordifolia
• Dog Violet Viola conspersa
• Downy Yellow Violet Viola pubescens

Ferns, Grasses and Sedges:

• Maidenhair Fern Adiatum pedatum
• Christmas Fern Polystichum acrostichoides
• Narrow Beech Fern Phegopteris connectilis
• White Bear Sedge Carex albursina
• Pennsylvania Sedge Carex pensylvanica
• Broad-leaved Sedge Carex platyphylla
• Bottlebrush Grass Elymus hystrix

More flowers for light shade:

Additionally, there are some moisture-loving flowers which will grow in full sun if the situation is moist enough which also thrive in light shade:

• White Turtlehead Chelone glabra
• Cardinal Flower Lobelia cardinalis
• Golden Ragwort Packera aurea
• Tall Meadow-rue Thalictrum pubescens