Perennials For Damp Soil

'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...

Very late bloomer, covered with 2" golden flowers with a dark center. Forms dense mounds and has narrow, dark green foliage.  

Cultivar 'Black Ace' offers nearly black sprouts and foliage in the early season (leaves turn green at the beginning of summer). Taller and slender-looking perennial with white turtlehead-like...

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 he

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...

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...

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...

Fast growing native fern with long, narrow fronds. Adaptable to soil and moisture. Easily "seeds" around with small bulblets that form on the leaves.

'Lunar Eclipse' is an exceptional hybrid valued for its large, unique blooms which emerge pale yellow/cream white along long spikes and darken over the flowering period to light purple/lilac and then...

Bold structural native Astilbe for half shade or shade garden. One of the two only North American Astilbes. Reminicent of Aruncus dioicus (Goat's Beard), but the terminal leaflet is lobbed, which is...

Highly adaptable and freely seeding native perennial. This is fairly small/narrow plant that grows from flat basal rosette of leaves with showy flowers. 

Highly ornamental and well behaved clump sedge that likes moisture, but will do fine in medium moist garden in half shade. Usually grows to 2' (up to 3' in rich and moist soil) x 1-1.5' wide clumps...

Easy to grow, forgiving, long-flowering perennial, very valuable for many native insects, several butterflies and skippers and small birds. Tough and longer-lived. Stays in clumps, and has coarse...

Nativar with light blue-violet flowers, vertical structure and nice foliage arranged in whorls. Clump perennial, 4-5' tall x 2' wide, long-lived perennial that usually takes it's time to establish in...

Non-spreading toad lily with arching stems, white flowers with pink-lavender edges (and no spots) along the whole stem and a bit earlier to bloom. Very good performer in

Smaller meadow rue with very fine ornamental leaves - "adiantifolium" means "maiden  hair fern-like". One of the top performers in

Early blooming, semi-evergreen ornamental grass with tidy clumps, that meets in bloom with spring bulbs. 12-16" tall and wide (20" tall with flowers), starts sprouting green, but soon gray-bluish...

Groucovering evergreen/semi-evergreen grass with bi-colored leaves early blooming season (cool season grass). The smallest of Sesleria (in horticulture). 0.5-1' tall x 0.7-1' wide clumps. The upper...