The following list gives some suggestions of perennials that can tolerate growing in areas with high levels of air pollution:

• Aconitum napellus (Common monkshood)
• Aquilegia vulgaris (Common columbine)
• Bergenia cordifolia (Elephant's ears)
• Dicentra eximia (Fringed bleeding heart)
• Dicentra formosa (Bleeding heart)
• Euphorbia amygdaloides (Wood spurge)
• Geranium endressii (Endress's crane's-bill)
• Helleborus niger (Christmas rose)
• Helleborus orientalis (Lenten rose)
• Hemerocallis (Daylily)
• Heuchera (Alumroot)
• Hosta (Plantain lily)
• Iris
• Lamium (Dead-nettle)
• Leucanthemum × superbum (Shasta daisy)
• Libertia grandiflora (Libertia)
• Polemonium (Jacob's ladder)
• Polygonatum (Solomon's seal)
• Pulmonaria (Lungwort)
• Rudbeckia (Black-eyed Susan)
• Sedum spectabile (Ice plant)
• Sedum telephium (Orpine)
• Sisyrinchium striatum (Sisyrinchium)
• Smilacena racemosa (False spikenard)
• Symphytum (Comfrey)
• Thalictrum (Meadow rue)
• Tiarella
• Veronica gentianoides (Speedwell)
• Veronica spicata (Spiked speedwell)