Purple flowered plants add depth and a touch of class to the garden color schemes along with other colored plants from whites and pastels to hot red and orange.
The color is attractive to bees and pollinators and it symbolizes royalty and elegance, flourishing across various flower types. Bursting with color or boasting a delicate charm, we have got you covered with 20 beautiful plants with purple flowers.
It is a deep bluish-purple perennial plant that produces small blooms on flower spikes about 2 feet tall. Known for its blooming period between May and June, it is considered a valuable landscape plant.
Like other salvias, it is a great choice for perennial borders, cottage gardens, or wildflower gardens. These plants are cut during early spring to encourage fresh new growth for the following season.
Alliums are a welcome addition to the landscape, not only for their color but also for their globular shape. Its flower head is made of clusters of individual florets, creating a full and lush round shape.
Like other spring flowers, they also need to be planted in the fall, where the flowering occurs in late spring to early summer. Their heights range from 2 to 5 feet. Besides purple, other color varieties include pink, yellow, white, and green.
Flowering Catmint has tiny pale purple flowers that grow on tall spikes from rounded clumps of grey-green leaves.
The cats love the minty-smelling leaves and hummingbirds, bees, and other pollinators love its nectar-rich flowers. It is a great addition to the cottage garden as it likes sun and well-drained soil. The flower blooms for weeks in summer and in different color varieties including purple, and blue.
Jackman's Clematis is a flowering vine that produces large, deep, and purple flowers in mid-summer. It has pretty and profuse flowers with four velvety petals.
The best part is growing the plants in sunlight but keeping the roots cool by matching the root area or adding short plants over the root zone to provide ground shade. For these plants to grow, they need rich, moist, and well-drained soil and it goes up 4 to 11 inches tall.
Dahlia is a popular perennial plant among many gardeners. Their hardy nature and love of the sun are not lost as they can grow quite tall in the right environments.
These plants need constant watering as they tend to grow better in moist climates and well-drained soil. They require a bit of work in colder climates, to plant each spring and lift to store for winter, but it is worth the hard work for their lush beauty for the gardeners.
Anemone is a Herbaceous perennial plant growing in temperate and subtropical locations throughout Europe and the Americas.
They possess thick, variety leaves, usually clustered in a group of three. Their trio gives rise to a thin steam with a single, small flower at the end. They can grow up to 12 inches or less with 1 flower and bloom with the first warm rains after the cold winter.
They have many hybrid varieties and have flowers of different color varieties, with some having variegated and solid colors. The flowers are trumpet-shaped and fragrant and start blooming in mid-spring to late summer until the frost sets in.
Being well-known purple flowers, they are commonly used in hanging baskets, window boxes, and as bedding plants. Their petal comes in various looks, including double blooms, ruffled, smooth, and even in heart-shaped patterns.
The Alpine betony is a perennial plant originated from Europe to Western Siberia. They grow around 18 to 24 inches tall and need partial shade to full sun exposure.
Their leaves are green and leather and the flowers are spiked and tubular. They have long stems that shoot upward out of the leaves, terminating in a bright purple flower. Though, these plants attracts several pollinators, they are good for planting as a defensive border from animals like deer and rabbits.
Columbine plants consist of delicate flowers that appear in April and May and mature at about 1 to 3 feet tall. Even though these plants love the sun, it doesn't bear excess heat.
They work well in cottage gardens, and rock gardens in sandy, medium moisture, well-drained soil. They have five fairly long petals reminiscent of an elegantly curved eagle's talon. Besides purple, other color varieties include blue, orange, pink, red, white, and yellow.
Agapanthus are a bear loose globe-shaped summer flowers in shades of blue, purple, and white with the purple types such as Royal Velvet and Dark Silk being the most dramatic appearance.
These plants have long stems topped with airy flower heads, formed into puffs of many small flowers with curved petals. These perennial plants are fragile and vibrant so the bloom doesn't last long.
Also known as Michaelmas daisies, these perennial plants bloom for weeks in early autumn and are commonly grown in North America. They have star-shaped flower heads, quite attractive to butterflies.
Most are purple but some varieties flower in pink and dark red too. One of the most reliable purple asters is "Wood's Purple", which has yellow centers and grows about 12 inches tall and spreads out happily in a full sun and well dained soil.
Verbena includes both the annual and the perennial species, many of which produce purple flowers. The flowers are tiny and fragrant, creating saucer-shaped clusters, growing up to 3 inches.
The plant is airy, ethereal, easily spread, and trained to grow in more compact spaces with new blooms through regular pruning. These plants prefer soil with proper draining but need low maintenance and thrive in various landscape conditions.
This herbaceous perennial is also known as the Eastern flower. The bloom of its flowers roughly coincides with those spring holidays and there are more than 40 species with fairly large, solitary, cup-shaped flowers, some of which are purple.
These plants grow around 5 to 8 inches tall and are suitable in full sun to partial shade. Also, it depicts a tiny tulip and comes in shades of bluish and reddish purple. They emerge very early in spring and are useful in rock gardens and edging.
Gladioli grow from a bulb and are perennial in warmer zones. They are fast-growing plants and can be quite tall, making them suitable options for smaller gardens with horizontal space.
The flowers have sword-like petals, leading to their nickname, the sword lily. Their blossoms are quite boldly colored and often purple. Their tall spikes of elegant flowers in a rainbow of colors make them famous for floral arrangements.
The balloon flower represents the Campanula family and is a tall and dwarf variety, and the flowers are either bright purple, creamy white, or pale pink.
These flowers bloom in summer and attract many pollinators including bees and butterflies. Before its flower buds open, they form a delightful round shape like a balloon. These plants grow in wide clumps and bloom in summer from about June to August.
These plants are vibrant and easy-to-grow annual flowers that come in various colors, including purple. They are known for their long blooming time, typically lasting from early summer until the first frost.
These flowers need low care and thrive in full sun and well-drained soil. Their daisy-like flowers with colored petals surrounding a central disc make them a suitable choice for home gardens and floral arrangements.
These flowering plants are known for their showy flower spikes that come in various colors, including purple, white, yellow, pink, and red.
They grow wild, thriving in wide, open, breezy meadows. They bloom in the spring and summer seasons and are deer-resistant and attractive to pollinators. These perennial plants can fix nitrogen in the soil, making them a valuable support for other garden crops.
Chrysanthemums are well-loved garden flowering plants often purchased as annuals to display in containers. You can pinch them back by removing the stem and top two leaves until June to promote bushier growth and more flower buds.
These mums come in a variety of colors, including 'Purple Andrea', 'Grape Queen', and 'Grandchild' cultivars for gorgeous color in the autumn garden. They need full sun exposure and well-drained soil to bloom and are 5 to 9 inches tall.
Wisteria is a woody vine with deep green foliage, stretching up to 30 feet under prime growing conditions. It boasts fragrant purple flowers on drooping stems during the spring season.
This perennial plant develops a cluster of drooping purple flowers and provides the vine with a sturdy trellis, post, or other support structure to enjoy its beautiful growth. It needs full sun exposure and humusy, moist, and well-drained soil in order to bloom in right conditions.
Echinacea, also considered the purple coneflower, is a showy plant with an upright growth habit, reaching around 2 to 5 feet high.
During the summer, daisy-like flowers with a spiny center cone bloom and can stretch up to 5 inches across. The stiff stems also bear dark green foilage and the plant often self-seed if the flower heads are left in place. These plants grow in full sun exposure to part shade with an average well-drained soil quality.
