Perennials For Damp Soil

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...

Cultivar 'Miss Manners' was discovered as a natural seedling of Physostegia virginiana 'Rosea'. It's magic is in it's non-spreading, clump-forming habit, neat compact growth, sturdy upright stems...

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...

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...

Monarda - Beebalm 'Jacob Cline' - very good red cultivar, robust and tall (4' 2"), vigorous and healthy, with significantly lighter green leaves and also a bit earlier flowering -  starting mid June...

Monarda - Beebalm 'Gardenview Scarlet' is clump-forming perennial with truly red flowers and very good performer. This is second best cultivar of Monarda for hummingbirds, see the results of

A very common, but also widely underused perennial! The Great Blue Lobelia prefers sun or partial shade and a moist location. It blooms in late summer, with 1 1/2- to 3- foot spikes of deep blue...

'Floristan White' is a white-flowering cultivar of dense blazing star. This favorite, easy to grow, and very showy perennial has narrow leaves that  gradually decrease in size and length towards to...

Also called Shreve's Iris, this native bog iris has violet-blue flowers with yellow-white crests in midsummer. The fragrant blooms attract pollinators and can be used as a good cut flower. 

Variable seed mixture with bluish and purple tones.This underused native Iris is a great native perennial and a hummingbird and bee favorite. The clus

If you need a big plant for a moist or wet spot in full sun in the warm south, Scarlet Rose Mallow may be perfect for you. If you live in a colder area and have a garden pond, don’t worry - we were...

A Jelitto seed selection, Heliopsis 'Burning Hearts' is a clump forming perennial and a true show-stopper. Large (2-3"), golden-yellow flowers with dark orange eyes appear from late summer through...

Eupatorium rugosum 'Chocolate' is an exclusive introduction from the Mt. Cuba Center in Greenville, Delaware and the perfect choice for those who find the wild parent form (E. rugosum, or Ageratina...

'Tiny Tortuga' = dense mounding perennial, the shortest and compact cultivar of Chelone. . This gorgeous, adaptable perennial grows in mounds that stay