Perennials For Damp Soil

Robust wetland sedge for moist to wet soils. Carex vulpinoidea forms regular clumps that have an evergreen look. The leaves are bright green and narrow, and it bears attractive fox tail-shaped seed...

This native woodland perennial grass spreads very slowly and forms clumps that have a light, airy structure. The leaves are gray-green; the long panicles of satin-silver flowers often flop to one...

Shorter or dwarf form of false aster. Var. latisquama has larger flowers than the more widely-spread Boltonia asteroides; it is also native to the more central USA, along with only a handful of...

Boltonias are great plants for adding color to the garden in the fall. Related to Asters, they are covered with 3/4" aster-like white flowers. The green-gray leaves are ornamental too. This clumping...

An upright perennial with clusters of pale lilac to whitish, fragrant flowers, aromatic minty leaves, and stems that do not branch much. This plant can bloom for very long time.

Very adaptable, tough mounding perennial. White Wood Aster has smaller, fragrant, starry flowers (slightly less than 1'' in diameter) that are borne very abundantly on wiry stems. In full bloom this...

Swamp milkweed 'Ice Ballet' is the white-flowering form of native swamp milkweed. It offers 4,” dense clusters of vanilla-scented, white flower heads that put on a show through the summer.

Also called Canadian Wild Ginger, this plant is a quite common native ground-covering perennial. It's a deciduous plant, so the leaves disappear in the late fall and emerge again in early spring, but...

Beautiful hairy gray leaves and stems. This wildflower spreads quickly and aggressively via rhizomes, so it's more suitable for larger landscaping projects or naturalization. The rhizomes are right...

The cultivar 'Valerie Finnis' has wider leaves, a bit more compact growth, and doesn't spread that much, so it's suitable for flower beds, smaller gardens or landscaping.

This wild perennial spreads quite aggressively by rhizomes and bears white flowers. All parts of the plant are poisonous to people, dogs, cats and livestock. This plant is actually very showy and...

Stoloniferous, ground-covering perennial with ornamental semi-evergreen gray leaves and unique, woolly, whitish flowers. It spreads wide to form mats, with budding stems that resemble the pads or...

Anemone 'Honorine Jobert' is an easy to grow, elegant perennial. The big white flowers have yellow centers and are great as cut flowers. It looks best in bigger clumps or masses; these form slowly...

Amsonia 'Blue Ice' is a superb, drought tolerant perennial from the dogbane family that's a shorter and more compact form of Bluestar. It has darker blue buds and flowers that bloom later and last...

Nodding onion belongs to the lily family and is known for its unique ball-shaped clusters of white-pink flowers and flat leaves. 

Wonderful cultivar that originated in the nature with no man-made hybridization, so it will satisfy the pure ecologist as well as keen gardeners. Upright perennial with yellow 2” wide pinwheel...

This new, superb variety is from the Earlibeauty® collection bred by Primrose Path Nursery. This hybrid is descended from several wild species of Phlox native to the Eastern USA; it performs well in...

This phlox is named after the landscape architect Robert Poore, who discovered it at an abandoned homestead in Mississippi decades ago. He shared it with Barbara Boys (Southern Perennials and Herbs)...