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Here are some draught-tolerant plant suggestions:

Grasses

• Bluestem (Andropogon spp.)
• Little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium)
• Maiden grass (Miscanthus sinensis and cvs.)
• Sedge (Carex spp. and cvs)
• Tufted hair grass (Deschampsia cespitosa)
  

• Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia spp.)
• Blazing star (Liatris spp.)
• False sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides and cvs.)
• Lamb’s ears (Stachys byzantina)Mullein (Verbascum spp.)
• Poppies (Papaver spp. and cvs.)
• Purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea and cvs.)
• Russian sage (Perovskia cvs.)
• Sea lavender (Limonium latifolium)
• Spurge (Euphorbia spp. and cvs.)
• Stonecrop (Sedum spp. and cvs.)
• Thrift (Armeria spp. and cvs.)
• Yarrow (Achillea spp. and cvs.)
  

• Bluebeard (Caryopteris spp. and cvs.)
• Butterfly bush (Buddleia davidii and cvs.)
• Mock orange (Philadephus spp.)
• Ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius and cvs.)
• Smoke bush (Cotinus coggygria and cvs.)
• Sumac (Rhus spp.)

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