Factsheets - Wet Soils
Plants for rain gardens or poorly drained areas
Trees
Red Maple Acer rubrum
Red Buckeye Aesculus pavia
Pawpaw Asimina triloba
River Birch Betula nigra
American Hornbeam Carpinus caroliniana
Hackberry Celtis occidentalis
Common Persimmon Diospyros virginiana
Black Walnut Juglans nigra
Sweetgum Liquidambar styraciflua
Sweetbay Magnolia Magnolia virginiana
Blackgum Nyssa sylvatica
Loblolly Pine Pinus taeda
American Sycamore Platanus occidentalis
Willow Oak Quercus phellos
Baldcypress Taxodium distichum
American Elm Ulmus americana
Shrubs
Black Chokeberry Aronia melanocarpa
Buttonbush Cephalanthus occidentalis
Sweet Pepperbush Clethra alnifolia
Silky Dogwood Cornus amomum
Red Osier Dogwood Cornus sericea
Dwarf Fothergilla Fothergilla gardenii
Inkberry Holly Ilex glabra
Winterberry Holly Ilex verticillata
Virginia Sweetspire Itea virginica
Spicebush Lindera benzoin
Waxmyrtle Myrica cerifera
Black Elderberry Sambucus canadensis
Steeplebush Spiraea tomentosa
Highbush Blueberry Vaccinium corymbosum
Arrowwood Viburnum dentatum
Herbaceous
Jack in the Pulpit Arisaema triphyllum
Goatsbeard Aruncus dioicus
Wild Ginger Asarum canadense
Swamp Milkweed Asclepias incarnata
White Turtlehead Chelone glabra
Virginia Springbeauty Claytonia virginica
Blue Mistflower Conoclinium coelestinum
Pink Coreopsis Coreopsis rosea
Rough Horsetail Equisetum hyemale
Hollow Joe-Pye Weed Eutrochium fistulosum
Purple joe Pye Weed Eutrochium purpureum
Swamp Rose Mallow Hibiscus moscheutos
Common Jewelweed Impatiens capensis
Blue Flag Iris Iris versicolor
Turk's Cap Lily Lilium superbum
Cardinal Flower Lobelia cardinalis
Great Blue Lobelia Lobelia siphilitica
COMING SOON Allegheny Monkeyflower Mimulus ringens
Scarlet Beebalm Monarda didyma
American White Water Lily Nymphaea odorata
Golden Ragwort Packera aurea
Obedient Plant Physostegia virginiana
Pickerelweed Pontederia cordata
Pinkroot Spigelia marilandica
Virginia Spiderwort Tradescantia virginiana
New York Ironweed Vernonia noveboracensis
Golden Alexander Zizia aurea
Ferns
Ostrich Fern Matteuccia struthiopteris
Sensitive Fern Onoclea sensibilis
Cinnamon Fern Osmunda cinnamomea
Royal Fern Osmunda regalis vs. spectabilis
New York Fern Thelypteris noveboracensis
Grass and Grasslike
Woodland Oats Chasmanthium latifolium
Soft Rush Juncus effusus
Switchgrass Panicum virgatum
Indiangrass Sorghastrum nutans
Vines
American Wisteria Wisteria frutescens
