Plants for Wet Areas

Trees & Shrubs

• Birch
• Cedar
• Cranberry
• Cypress
• Dwarf Balsam Firm
• Elder
• Red Dogwood
• Sea Buckthorn
• Snowball
• Snowberry
• Willow

Perennials - Tolerate Wet Soil

• Astilbe ‘Superba’,
• Beebalm—Monarda didyma
• Bergenia—Bergenia cordifolia
• Bugbane—Cimicifuga simplex
• Butterflyweed - Asclepias incarnata
• Cardinal flower—Lobelia cardinalis
• Creeping Jenny—Lysimachia nummularia
• Fleeceflower—Polygonum bistorta
• Forget-Me-Not—Myosotis
• Globeflower—Trollius
• Goatsbeard—Aruncus dioicus
• Gooseneck Loosestrife - Lysimachia clethroides
• Hosta—Hosta sieboldiana and H. undulata
• Hosta fortunei ‘Albopicto or ‘Aurea’
• Iris—Iris ensata
• Iris—Yellow flag and blue flag
• Iris—Iris sibirica
• Japanese Spurge—Pachysandra terminalis
• Joe Pye Weed—Eupatorium
• Ligularia—Ligularia
• Loosestrife—Lysimachia
• Marsh Marigold—Caltha palustris
• Matteucia struthiopteris—Ostrich Fern
• Meadowsweet—Filipendula
• Obedient Plant—Physostegia virginiana
• Osmunda regalis—Royal Fern
• Primrose—Primula spp.
• Rhubarb—Rheum palmatum
• Ribbon Grass—Phalaris arundinacea
• Rodgersia—Rodgersia aesculifolia, R. pinnata, R. tablularis
• Sneezeweed—Helenium autumnale
• Sweet Woodruff—Galium
• Turtlehead—Chelone

Perennials - For Heavy Shade and Moist Soil

• Bishop’s Hat—Epimedium
• Bunchberry—Cornus canadensis
• Bugleweed—Ajuga
• Fern—Osmunda royalis (Royal), Matteucia struthiopteris (Ostrich Fern)
• Hosta—Hosta
• Japanese Spurge—Pachysandra terminalis
• Lamium—Lamium maculatum
• Lily of the Valley—Convallaria majalis
• Lungwort—Pulmonaria
• Meadow Rue—Thalictrum
• Meadowsweet—Filipendula
• Periwinkle—Vinca
• Solomon’s Seal—Polygonatum
• Wintergreen—Gaultheria procumbens