Perennials For Damp Soil

Stonecrop with gray-blue leaves, pink edges during summer heat months and pink flowers in early fall and orange-red fall color. Easy and tough plant with ground covering growth. For sunny garden with average to leaner drained soil. Often sold with...

Smaller filling and ground covering perennial for edges in full sun or half shade. Blooming Time: mid to late spring, with sporadic blooming through summerSize: 6" tall x 8-12" wide low mound with semi-evergreen leaves USDA Zones: 5 to 8Culture: full sun...

Small and modest woodland edge perennial for half shade or shade garden. Goes well with spring bulbs and native ephemerals. Blooming Time: early to mid spring (end of March to April, depending to your zone)Size: usually 8-10" tall x 5-8" wideUSDA Zones:...

Double-flowered shasta daisy (with full centers). Upright growth, 3.5" flowers in diameter, great cut flower. Blooming Time: early summer to late summer (deadheading significantly prolongs the bloom period - so July till September)Size: up to 30" tall x...

Southeastern, native sedge with significantly blue-green leaves. Requires some shade during the day, likes moisture, but will grow fine in average garden conditions. Well behaved, clumping, with fairly robust evergreen leaves. Blooming Time: May-June...

Smaller and compact version of Lady's Mantle. Great neutral filler or small groundcover. Not as aggressive of a seeder as A. mollis. Possibly better for a bit cooler areas. Blooming Time: May-June/JulySize: 12" tall x 16" wide USDA Zones: 3 to 8Culture:...

Valuable late bloomer, usually one of the last sunflower to bloom. Magnet for Monarchs, butterflies, skippers and moths, small songbirds feed on seeds. Large 2-2.5" wide golden flowers, very narrow and shiny leaves. Spreads wide - needs some room...

'Spring Symphony' seems to be the only long-lasting and reliable Foamflower in our Midwestern conditions (Bloomington, IN)! Clumping Foamflower with distinctive palmate leaves (olive green) with nearly black markings and soft pink flowers.  Compact...

False Indigo hybrid with vanilla cream flowers arranged in 10" long inflorescences. Pastel yellow buds, bronze emerging leaves turn gray-green later on. Compact, dense, well branched medium-sized clumps, ornamental seedpods till early fall. Like any...

Geranium pratense hybrid with chocolate-bronze foliage and blue-purple flowers. More vigorous than older cultivars.   Blooming Time: Flowers in early to mid summer (in cooler areas up to late summer).Size: 24-26' tall x 28-30" wide clumps. USDA...

'Hot Lips' Turtlehead is a compact, fast-growing cultivar, reaching 2' in height and width. Very dark, shiny, bronze-green leaves in regular mounds and rosy-pink flowers in dense spikes. Rarely bothered by pests and deer. The genus...

Very late bloomer, covered with 2" golden flowers with a dark center. Forms dense mounds and has narrow, dark green foliage.   Blooming Time: September until frostSize: 24-26" tall x 24" wide clumpsUSDA Zones: Hardy in zones 5-10Culture: Full sun,...

Clump forming, shade-loving perennial with cobalt blue flowers in mid spring and spotted leaves. Leaves may be semi-evergreen in warm winters.  Lungwort with better tolerance to heat and humidity and very good resistance to powdery mildew. Divide in...

Ground covering fern, tough, with firm leaves that don't break up easily. Vigorous and slowly spreading wide. Underused and not much known in horticultural trade. P. decursive-pinnata is a deciduous, upright fern with beautifully tapered, feathery...

This gorgeous, reliable perennial is a perfect ground cover. The bright green, simple, lanceolate foliage smells of freshly-mown straw or hay when damaged, and the small, white, 4-petaled flowers appear in late spring through early summer. The...

Tight vase-shaped, clumping grass with small purple flowers. Leaves stay at the base only. The flowering stems turn yellow and coppery-yellow in the early fall. Compact, bushy selection made by famous Danish garden designer Piet Oudolf. Cool season...

The fuzzy, arrow-shaped leaves are fragrant, ornamental and grow up to 6" long. Larger, yellow flowers that are also scented bloom from late summer through mid fall. This sage forms clumps, creeps with trailing stems, and may self-seed in ideal...

The green-white or green-yellow flowers are followed by dark brown berries. Grass-like wetland perennial that spreads via rhizomes to form dense stands, which provide excellent support for wildlife and appear similar to cattails or irises from far away...