The following list details just some of the perennials that can tolerate growing in dry shade:

• Acanthus mollis (Bear's breeches)
• Aconitum carmichaelii (Autumn monkshood)
• Aconitum napellus (Common monkshood)
• Anemone hupehensis (Japanese anemone)
• Anemone x hybrida (Japanese anemone)
• Aquilegia vulgaris (Common columbine)
• Dicentra (Bleeding heart)
• Digitalis grandiflora (Yellow foxglove)
• Epimedium (Barrenwort)
• Euphorbia amygdaloides (Wood spurge)
• Geranium (Crane's-bill)
• Helleborus foetidus (Stinking hellebore)
• Helleborus orientalis (Lenten rose)
• Iris foetidissima (Stinking iris)
• Luzula sylvatica 'Marginata' (Greater woodrush)
• Ophiopogon (Mondograss)
• Saxifraga x urbium (London pride)
• Symphytum grandiflorum (Creeping comfrey)
• Tellima grandiflora Rubra Group (Fringe cups)
• Vinca minor (Lesser periwinkle)
• Viola riviniana Purpurea Group (Common dog-violet)
• Viola odorata (English violet)