Perennials For Damp Soil

Small, filler plant for a half shade or shade garden with a very long flowering season. Good mound forming, groundcover with an interesting leaf pattern! 

"Improved" version of Phlox paniculata ‘David' with regular, upright clumps. Makes a great cut flower.

A more heat tolerant lungwort with silver leaves, purple-blue flowers that fade to cobalt blue. Immature leaves appear spotted.  Mounding perennial with dense ground covering habit.

Late blooming, robust, sterile Iris. Very showy in bloom, featuring medium purple flowers with a bright yellow eye, bordered with a darker purple eye line. Flowers above foliage on long sturdy...

Famous designer Piet Oudolf's introduction! A tall, elegant, airy, structural, but very transparent grass. A Warm se

Healthy and early blooming, mid-sized phlox, discovered in natural plant communities in Alabama. Sturdy stems, lighter green clean leaves, high coverage with flowers, good for butterflies and...

Break-through, herbaceous hibiscus hybrid with blue-ish 8" flowers with a red eye. Exotic perennial with compact growth, more narrow and dissected leaves, flowers stay in the upper part of the plant...

Cultivar of the native wildflower with a chocolate-red leaf color early in the season, bronze-red later on in the full sun. Bud and white flowers from July on.

Very rare, native plant, reminicent of Coreopsis (Tickseed) combined with Helianthus (Sunflower). Glossy leaves, golden-yellow flower late in the season.

Large, daisy-like flowers (3-4" across), with drooping yellow petals and elongated bright green center cones. Underused, tough and long-lived perennial. Flowers in the summer for 8+ weeks!

Ground covering aster with large basal leaves. Whitish flowers in the fall, spreads some into 2-3' wide clumps. Very adaptable to various soils (incl. clay or poor soils), excellent for difficult to...

Late blooming native perennial, with big pink or white flowers (usually 4” across). Three-lobed green are silver underneath. B

Old-fashioned and still-popular edible plant. But also a very ornamental plant with bold structure, reddish stems, and cream-white flowers. Very deer and rabb

Upright and narrow goldenrod with reddish stems and narrow spikes of yellow flowers.Blooming Time: August-Septem

Strictly upright and vertical, with a nice gray-silver color with rosy-colored flowers. Good height at under 4', and

Spreading natural form that requires some space, but is also easy to reduce, if needed. Excellent late support for variety of pollinators and even hummingbirds!

Native Iris with unique, copper-red/terracotta flowers. Moisture loving, but grows perfectly fine in average garden soil.

Large 6-8" magenta red flowers are flat, with a small darker red halo, overlapping petals and deeply impressed veins. Foliage is dark olive green leaves with copper highlights, the newest leaves...