Plants for Wet or Boggy Sites
Plants for Wet or Boggy Sites
The plants listed below will beautify a wet or boddy wite with their flowers and foliage. Plants with an * tolerate boggy soil or standing water, especially in spring. Other plants do best in constantly wet to damp soil.
PERENNIALS AND BIENNIALS
SPRING
Bergenia spp. (berginias)
Caltha palustris (marsh marigold)
Myosotis sylvatica (woodland forget-me-not)
Primula japonica (Japanese primrose)
Trollius europaeus (globeflower)
SUMMER
Aruncus dioicus (goat's beard)
Astilbe spp. (astilbes)
Cimicifuga spp. (bugbanes)
Filipendula rubra (queen-of-the-prairie)
Hibiscus moscheutos (rose mallos)
Iris ensata (Japanese iris)*
Iris siberica (Siberian iris)*
Iris vrsicolor (blue flag iris)*
Mazus reptans (mazus)
Mimulus guttatus (common monkey flower)
Rodgersia spp. (rodgersias)
Tradescantia x andersoniana (spiderwort)
LATE SUMMER AND FALL
Chelone spp. (turtle-heads)
Cimicifuga spp. (bugbanes)
Eupatorium fistulosum (Joe-Pye weed)
Lobelia cardinalis (cardinal flower)*
ANNUALS
Mimulus x hybridus (monkey flower)
FERNS
Dryopteris spp. (wood ferns)
Matteuccia struthiopteris (ostrich fern)
Osmunda cinnamomea (cinnamon fern)
Osmunda regalis (royal fern)
BULBS
SPRING
Arisaema spp. (Jack-in-the-pulpits)
SUMMER
Lilium canadense (Canada lily)
Zantedeschia aethiopica (calla lily)
