Moist Soil / Wet Feet Perennial Plants
Plants that prefer or tolerate moist soil often grow in low-lying, seasonally flooded areas and/or deep shade. If you have regularly soggy or saturated areas in your yard, you can enhance your backyard habitat by selecting some of the many beautiful native species that thrive in these conditions!
Make sure to check individual plant tags and signs for specific cultural requirements!
Forbs (Herbaceous Flowering)
- Asclepias incarnata (Rose Milkweed / Swamp Milkweed)
- Caltha palustris (Marsh Marigold)
- Chelone glabra (Turtlehead)
- Doellingeria (Aster) umbellata (Flat-Topped or Tall White Aster)
- Epilobium coloratum (Cinnamon Willow Herb)
- Epilobium glandulosum (Northern Willow Herb)
- Eupatorium perfoliatum (Boneset)
- Eutrochium dubium (Coastal Joe Pye Weed)
- Eutrochium maculatum (Joe Pye Weed)
- Filipendula rubra ‘Venusta’ (Queen of the Prairie)
- Geum aleppicum (Yellow Avens)
- Helenium autumnale (Sneezeweed)
- Hibiscus moscheutos (Swamp Rose Mallow)
- Iris versicolor (Blue Flag Iris)
- Liatris spicata (Marsh Blazing Star)
- Lobelia cardinalis (Cardinal Flower)
- Lobelia siphilitica (Great Blue Lobelia)
- Penthorum sedoides (Ditch Stonecrop)
- Persicaria (Polygonum) punctatum (Smartweed)
- Physostegia virginiana (Obedient Plant)
- Pycnanthemum virginianum (Mountain Mint)
- Pycnanthemum muticum (Clustered Mountain Mint)
- Scutellaria lateriflora (Mad-dog Skullcap)
- Senecio aurea (Golden Ragwort)
- Solidago graminifolia (Grass-leaved Goldenrod)
- Symphyotrichum (Aster) novae-angliae (New England Aster)
- Symphyotrichum (Aster) novi-belgii (New York Aster)
- Symphyotrichum (Aster) puniceum (Purplestem Aster)
- Trollius laxus (American Globeflower)
- Verbena hastata (Blue Vervain)
Ferns
- Matteuccia struthiopteris (Ostrich Fern)
- Onoclea sensibilis (Sensitive Fern)
Trees & Shrubs
- Acer rubrum (Red Maple)
- Acer saccharinum (Silver Maple)
- Alnus rugosa (Speckled Alder)
- Aronia melanocarpa (Black Chokeberry)
- Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory)
- Cephalanthus occidentalis (Buttonbush)
- Cornus amomum (Silky Dogwood)
- Cornus sericea (Red Osier Dogwood)
- Ilex verticillata (Winterberry Holly)
- Platanus occidentalis (Sycamore)
- Populus deltoides (Eastern Cottonwood)
- Salix spp. (Shrub Willow)
- Spiraea tomentosa (Steeplebush)
- Viburnum opulus (European Highbush Cranberry)
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