The following list contains plants in the Plant Evaluation Program that are also top-rated plants for the Chicagoland growing region (zone 5).

• Asclepias (milkweed)
• Aster (aster)
• Athyrium (lady fern)
• Campanula (bellflower)
• Cimicifuga (bugbane)
• Clethra (summersweet)
• Cotinus (smokebush)
• Digitalis (foxglove)
• Echinacia (coneflower)
• Eupatorium (Joe-Pye weed)
• Euphorbia (spurge)
• Hydrangea paniculata (panicle hydrangea)
• Itea (Virginia sweetspire)
• Leucanthemum (shasta daisy)
• Nepeta (catmint)
• Panicum (panic grass)
• Platycodon (balloonflower)
• Schizophragma (Japanese hydrangea vine)
• Thalictrum (meadowrue)
• Veronica (speedwell)
• Veronicastrum (Culver's root)