Rain Garden Plants

Sweet flag (Acorus calamus)

*Giant hyssop (Agastache foeniculum)

Canada anemone (Anemone Canadensis)

*Swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnate)

*New England aster (Aster novae-angliae)

Marsh Marigold (Caltha palustris)

Bottlebrush sedge (Carex comosa)

*Tussock Sedge (Carex stricta)

Brown fox sedge (Carex vulpinoidea)

*Turtlehead (Chelone glabra)

*Queen of the prairie (Flilpendula rubra)

*Sneezeweed (Helenium autumnale)

Marsh St. John’s wort (Hypericum virginicum)

Blue flag iris (Iris versicolor)

Torrey’s rush (Juncus torreyi)

*Prairie blazing star (Liatris pycnostachya)

*Marsh blazing star (Liatris spicata)

Blue lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica)

Wild mint (Mentha arvensis)

Monkey flower (Mimulus ringens)

Prairie phlox (Phlox pilosa)

Mountain mint (Pycnanthemum virginianum)

*River bulrush (Scirpus fluviatilis)

*Meadow rue (Thalictrum dasycarpum)

*Culver’s root (Veronicastrum virginicum)

Golden Alexander (Zizia aurea)

*may exceed 3 ft in height

AVOID cattails, purple loosestrife these are invasive species!