A rain garden is a shallow depression that collects stormwater runoff from a roof, driveway, walkway, parking lot, or yard and allows it to infiltrate the ground to reduce erosion, water pollution, and flooding. These plants thrive in wet soils.
Rain Garden Plant List
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Sweet Flag
Acorus americanus
Swamp Milkweed
Asclepias incarnata
Ivory Sedge
Carex eburnea
Gray's Sedge
Carex grayi
Plantain-Leaved Sedge
Carex plantaginea
Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
Turtlehead
Chelone glabra
Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
Rattlesnake Master
Eryngium yuccifolium
Joe Pye Weed
Eupatorium macultum
Boneset
Eupatorium perfoliatum
Flat Topped Goldenrod
Euthamia graminifolia
Queen of the Prairie
Filipendula rubra
Bottle Gentian
Gentiana andrewsii
Swamp Hibiscus
Hibiscus moscheutos
Virginia Iris
Iris virginica
Cardinal Flower
Lobelia cardinalis
Great Blue Lobelia
Lobelia siphilitica
Foxglove beard tongue
Penstemon digitalis
Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
Swamp Buttercup
Ranunculus hispidus
Orange Coneflower
Rudbeckia fulgida
Black-eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
Brown-eyed Susan
Rudbeckia triloba
Soft Stemmed Bullrush
Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani
Green Bullrush
Scirpus atrovirens
Wild Senna
Senna hebecarpa
Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
Stiff Goldenrod
Solidago rigida
New England Aster
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
Frost Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
Arrow-leaved aster
Symphyotrichum urophyllum
Ohio Spiderwort
Tradescantia ohiensis
Ironweed
Vernonia missurica