Rain Garden Plant List

Plants for wet soils and rain garden basins
Scientific Name	Common Name	Full Sun	Partial Sun	Shade
Asclepias incarnata	Swamp milkweed	X	X
Carex comosa	Bottlebrush sedge	X
Chelone glabra	Turtlehead	X
Elymus virginicus	Virginia wild rye	X	X	X
Iris versicolor	Northern blue flag iris	X	X
Lobelia cardinalis	Cardinal flower	X	X
Lobelia siphilitica	Great blue lobelia	X	X
Matteuccia struthiopteris	Ostrich fern	X	X	X
Mimulus ringens	Monkey flower	X	X
Physostegia virginiana	Obedient plant	X	X
Scirpus atrovirens	Dark-green bulrush	X
Senna hebecarpa	Wild senna	X	X
Spartina pectinata	Prairie cordgrass	X	X
Verbena hastasa	Blue vervain	X	X
Vernonia fasciculata	Ironweed	X	X

Plants for medium/mesic soils and rain garden slopes
Scientific Name	Common Name	Full Sun	Partial Sun	Shade
Agastache scrophulariaefolia	Purple giant hyssop	X	X
Allium cernuum	Nodding onion	X	X
Anemone canadensis	Canada anenome	X	X
Blephilia ciliata	Downy wood mint	X	X
Bouteloua curtipendula	Side oats grama	X
Campanula americana	Tall bellflower		X	X
Campanula rotundifolia	Harebell	X	X
Carex bebbii	Bebb's oval sedge	X
Carex vulpinoidea	Brown fox sedge	X	X
Coreopsis palmata	Prairie coreopsis	X
Elymus hystrix	Bottlebrush grass		X	X
Eutrochium purpureum	Sweet Joe-pye weed		X	X
Fragaria virginiana	Wild strawberry	X	X	X
Geranium maculatum	Wild geranium	X	X	X
Heliopsis helianthoides	Early sunflower	X	X
Hypericum pyramidatum	Great Saint John's wort	X	X
Hydrophyllum virginianum	Virginia waterleaf		X	X
Liatris ligulistylus	Meadow blazing star	X	X
Monarda fistulosa	Wild bergamot	X	X
Oligoneuron ridelli	Ridell's goldenrod	X
Oligoneuron rigidum	Stiff goldenrod	X	X
Penstemon digitalis	Foxglove beardtongue	X	X
Polemonium reptans	Jacob's ladder	X	X	X
Pycnanthemum virginianum	Mountain mint	X	X
Rudbeckia subtomentosa	Sweet black-eyed Susan	X	X
Silene regia	Royal catchfly	X	X
Solidago flexicalus	Zigzag goldenrod		X	X
Solidago speciosa	Showy goldenrod	X	X
Sporobolus heterolepis	Prairie dropseed	X	X
Symphyotrichum azureus	Sky blue aster	X	X
Symphyotrichum macrophyllus	Big-leaved aster		X	X
Thalictrum dioicum	Early meadow rue		X	X
Tradescantia ohiensis	Spiderwort	X	X
Verbena stricta	Hoary vervain	X	X
Veronicastrum virginicum	Culver's root	X	X
Zizia aurea	Golden alexander	X	X

Plants for dry soils and rain garden berms
Scientific Name	Common Name	Full Sun	Partial Sun	Shade
Anemone virginiana	Tall thimbleweed	X	X	X
Aquilegia canadensis	Columbine	X	X	X
Asclepias tuberosa	Butterfly milkweed	X	X
Baptisia alba	Wild white indigo	X	X
Dalea purpurea	Purple prairie clover	X
Drymocallis arguta	Prairie cinquefoil	X
Phlox pilosa	Prairie phlox	X
Schizachyrium scoparium	Little bluestem	X	X