Flowers and Perennials for Damp or Wet Garden Areas

Critical Note: Only regionally native plants for beaches, coastal/savannah restoration. Garden damp areas: non-invasive non-natives acceptable. Stream/river/creek/lake edges: only regionally native plants.

Recommended Plants (by light preference)

Full Sun to Half Sun: Astilbe, Bee balm, Blue flag iris, Calla, Canna, Crinum, Daylily, Globeflower, Horsetail, Iris laevigata, Ironweed, Japanese iris, Joe-Pye weed, Louisiana iris, Marsh marigold, Mint, Monkshood, Moor grass, New England aster, Pentas, Queen of the meadow, Perennial hibiscus, River oats, Royal fern, Rush, Sensitive fern, Siberian iris, Southern blue flag, Spiderwort, Swamp hibiscus, Swamp milkweed, Swamp sunflower, Sweet flag, White turtlehead, Yellow flag

Half Sun: Bluets, Cinnamon fern, Foam flower, Forget-me-not, Goat's beard, Jack-in-the-pulpit, Japanese primrose, Lady fern, Marsh fern, Rodgersia, Sedge, Sweet woodruff

Half Sun to Shade: Blue cardinal flower, Cardinal flower, Elephant's ear, Greater celandine, Jewel weed, Rivercane

Full Sun to Shade: Rush (common)