Choosing the right plant for the lighting conditions in your environment is crucial for its health and vitality. Light intensity correlates with the amount of time a plant, tree, or shrub should be exposed to sunlight.
Understanding these light tolerance categories will help you select the perfect plants for your specific lighting conditions, ensuring their optimal growth and well-being.
Perennials
Windflower
Lilly Of The Valley
Bleeding Heart
Sweet Woodruff
Hosta
Foamy Bells
Solomon's Seal
False Spirea
Conifers
Balsam Fir
Broadleaf Evergreen
Mountain Fire Pieris
Prelude Pieris
Deciduous Trees
Weeping Golden Chain Tree
Golden Chain Tree
Deciduous Flowering Shrubs (Partial shade)
Bloodgood Japanese Maple
Crimson Queen Japanese Maple
Inaba Shidare Japanese Maple
Tamukeyama Japanese Maple
Green Laceleaf Japanese Maple
Pagoda Dogwood
Anabelle Hydrangea
Perennials
Goutweed
Bugleweed
Lady's Mantle
Columbine
Red Thrift Armeria
Silver Mound wormwood
Heartleaf Bergenia
Bellflower
Purple Coneflower
White Coneflower
Cranesbill
Daylily
Coral Bells
Iris
Becky Shasta Daisy
Spurge
White Summer Phlox
Pink Summer Phlox
Purple Summer Phlox
Black Eyed Susan
Irish Moss
Hens & Chickens
Periwinkle
Broadleaf Evergreens
Green Gem Boxwood
Green Mountain Boxwood
Green Velvet Boxwood
Blue Pince/Princess Holly
Grandiflora Rhodendron
Nova Zembla Rhodendron
Conifers
Skyrocket Juniper
Dwarf Alberta Spruce
Weeping White Spruce
Serbian Spruce
Eastern White Pine
Clipped Pyramidal Japanese Yew
Densiformis Yew
Fairview Yew
Hick's Yew
Hill's Yew
Deciduous Trees
Hedge Maple
Autumn Blaze Maple
Amur Maple
Norway Maple
Deborah Maple
Red Maple
Sugar Maple
Tatarian Maple
Ruby-Red Horsechestnut
Ohio Buckeye
Baumann Horsechestnut
River Birch
Pyramidal European Hornbeam
Umbrella Tree
Northern Catalpa
European Beech
Purple Fountain Beech
Red Obelisk Beech
River's Purple Beech
Tricolour Beech
Rose of Sharon Standard
Hydrangea Standard
Susan Magnolia
Saucer Magnolia
Royal Star Magnolia
Mulberry Tree
London Plane Tree
Russian Mountain Ash
Redmond Linden
Fragrant Snowball Standard
Korean Spice Viburnum Standard
Nannyberry
Deciduous Flowering Shrubs
Amur Maple
Autumn Magic Chokeberry
Eastern Redbud
Fringe Tree
White Flowering Dogwood
Pink Flowering Dogwood
Red Osier Dogwood
Common Witchhazel
Rose of Sharon
PeeGee Hydrangea
Pink Diamond Hydrangea
Oakleaf Hydrangea
Winterberry
Double Flowering Japanese Kerria
Mockorange
Common Ninebark
American Elderberry
Golden Elderberry
Black Beauty Elderberry
False Spirea
Little Princess Spirea
Bridal Wreath Spirea
Fragrant Snowball
Korean Spice Vibrunum
Nannyberry
Perennials
Yarrow
Tickseed
Delphinium
Dianthus
Globe Thistle
Blanket Flower
Candytuft
Lavender
Gayfeather
Catmint
Peony
Beard Tongue
Russian Sage
Creeping Phlox
Stonecrop
Wooly Thyme
Mother-Of-Thyme
Deciduous Flowering Shrubs
Paperbark Maple
Concorde Barberry
Rose Glow Barberry
Butterfly Bush
Ivory Halo Dogwood
Chinese Flowering Dogwood
Green Smokebush
Royal Purple Smokebush
Carol Mackie Daphne
Golden Privet
Diablo Purple Ninebark
Summer Wine Ninebark
Purple Leaf Sand Cherry
Variegated Japanese Willow
Flaming Mound Spirea
Gold Mound Spirea
Magic Carpet Spirea
Dwarf Korean Lilac
Miss Kim Lilac
Donald Wyman Lilac
Minuet Lilac
Charles Joy Lilac
Madame Lemoine Lilac
Monge Lilac
Sensation Lilac
Wine & Roses Weigela
Purple Weigela
Minuet Weigela
Red Princess Weigela
Variegated Weigela
Deciduous Trees
Maples
Crimson King Maple
Crimson Sentry Maple
Harlequin Maple
Royal Red Maple
Birch
Young's Weeping Birch
Jacquemontii Birch
Crab Apple
Prairiefire Crab Apple
Profusion Crab Apple
Royalty Crab Apple
Thunderchild Crab Apple
Cherry Tree
Purpleleaf Sandcherry Standard
Weeping Japanese Cherry Tree
Kwanzan Japanese Cherry Tree
Weeping Higan Cherry Tree
Double Flowering Almond Tree
Ornamental Pear
Bradford Pear Tree
Chanticleer Ornamental Pear Tree
Oak
White Oak
Swamp White Oak
Burr Oak
Pin Oak
English Oak
Pyramidal English Oak
Red Oak
Willow
Golden Weeping Willow
Weeping-Pussy Willow
Variegated Japanese Willow
Blue Arctic Willow
Lilac
Dwarf Korean Lilac Standard
Ivory Lilac Silk Tree
Misc.
Weeping Siberian Peashrub Standard
Weeping Walker Siberian Peashrub Standard
Common Hackberry
Katsura Tree
Sunburst Locust
Kentucky Coffee Tree
Sweet Gum
Tulip Tree
Yellow Bird Magnolia
Greenspire Linden
Conifers
Weeping Nootka
False Cypress
Semi-Dwarf Hinoki
Dwarf Hinoki False Cypress
Threadleaf False Cypress
Golden Threadleaf False Cypress
Mint Julep Juniper
Mountbatten Juniper
Old Gold Juniper
Spartan Juniper
Icee Blue Juniper
Compact Andorra Juniper
Prince Of Wales Juniper
Blue Rug Juniper
Japanese Garden Juniper
Blue Haven Juniper
Moffet Blue Juniper
Wichita Blue Juniper
Blue Star Juniper
Blue Arrow Juniper
American Larch (Tamarack)
Dawn Redwood
Norway Spruce
Little Gem Spruce
Nest Spruce
Weeping Norway Spruce
Colorado Spruce
Baby Blue Spruce
Austrian Pine
Weeping White Pine
Douglas Fir
Golden Japanese Yew
Broadleaf Evergreen
Country Gold Euonymus
Emerald Gaiety Euonymus
Emerald 'N Gold Euonymus
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