Perennials For Damp Soil

New England Aster 'Purple Dome' is short and compact cultivar with dark-purple flowers, reaching only 18-24" of height and up to 3' of width.

Compact and shorter version of the rough goldenrod. Surprisingly drought tolerant too. Solidago 'Fireworks' is perfectly named for its flowering stems which look like

Native fern to Eastern North America. Naturally occurs in both dry and moist wooded slopes, moist banks and ravines. Typically grows in a fountain-like and neat clump to 2' tall and wide and features...

Golden Alexanders is a wonderful and early flowering perennial. Native wildflower from Eastern Canada to southern United States, occurs in moist, open woods, meadows, and prairies. It's hardy in...

The double-colored Common Blue Violet, or Confederate Violet, is a natural bi-colored form of the small native wildflower. The flowers start in early spring and can last well into the summer months,...

Tough and hardy native wildflower, also known as Gravelweed or Actinomeris helianthoides. This plants reminds of woodland sunflower (Helianthus divaricatus), but flower much earlier from June to...

Zig-zag spiderwort is probably the most robust spiderwort and also true shade loving perennial. 'LSS Lazy Blue' has very pale blue flowers, this selection originates in Lazzy SS Nursery in Virginia...

'Concord Grape,' of the virginiana group, offers compact clumps of grassy, gray-green leaves (about 12" tall) that contrast nicely with the large (over 1"), dark purple-pink flowers. 

Goldenrods are unfortunately not very popular perennials, but they are all very beneficial for pollinators and butterflies for it's late flowering, they are tough plants - drought tolerant, usually...

Quite robust perennial with typical leaf cups, native to Central-eastern Canada to southeastern United States.See the USDA distribution map.

Blunt mountain mint - native plant throughout eastern north America - grows  in open moist woods, meadows, and bogs. It makes spreading clumps with bright green very aromatic leaves, and 2 foot stems...

Very modest perennial with tops looking like they have been spray-painted. Dense clumps, 4 feet tall and wide and spreading wider, are topped with hemispherical flower heads with small white flowers...

Creeping Woodland Phlox 'Sherwood Purple' is a ground covering phlox for shade and good soil. On of the top performing plants in Mt. Cuba Wo

'Glamour Girl' = vigorous, healthy, pollinator friendly. Stunning large coral-pink flowers for nearly six weeks, darker stems.

Phlox divaricata ‘Blue Moon’ is a lovely compact cultivar of our native woodland phlox.  Plants have semi-evergreen leaves and form ground covering mats.  In early spring, foliage is topped by loose...

Also called rock pink, small succulent perennial, native to Central southern United States (see the detail

Cultivar 'Painter's Palette' has cream-white splish-splash painting on its leaves, with a little pink tint on the nodes and tiny red flowers/bracts (instead of white flowers of the wild form). This...