Perennials For Damp Soil

Unusual, hardy and tough perennial, with attractive leaves. Forms mounds of palmated leaves, usually 1.5' tall x 2' wide. Emerging leaves are very hairy and remind of native mayapple (and shredded...

Low growing, partially groundcovering native stonecrop for half shade or shade. Dark green leaves, low mounds, only 2-3" tall x 6-12" wide, 6-8" tall with white flowers in April/May to June.

Short cultivar, reaching only 2' of height, still spreading some. Award of Garden Merit by Royal Horticultural Society (UK) in 1993. Attracts pollinators, butterflies and hummingbirds.

Impressive deciduous native fern, suitable for woodland garden or wet soil in the shade. Low maintenance fern, pest and disease free fern, recipient of Garden Merit Award by Royal Horticultural...

Beautiful native fern for colonizing with fresh green leaves and gracefully opening, narrow vase-shaped clumps. Award of Garden Merit by Royal Horticultural Society (UK).

Showy native perennial sunflower, with spreading growth, high ecological value. Ideal for half shade garden, woodland edge and for naturalization. This sunflower will reach usually 4-5' of height (in...

Attractive native woodland grass for half shade or shade, spreading and partially ground covering. Usually 2' tall x 2-3' wide, slowly spreading. Nice shiny, erect blades that arch nicely. This grass...

Excellent groundcovering, clump-forming native sedge with very fine texture of fresh green leaves. Grows to about 1' (tall and wide, in ideal conditions up to 2'). Beautiful fresh green leaves...

Partially evergreen, very vigorous ground covering sedge for half shade or shade. Reliable and well performing sedge that received received the Outstanding Plant Award from the International Hardy...

Evergreen clumping sedge with wider silvery-blue leaves.  Even it's also called "creeping sedge", this grass doesn't creep at all and stays in tight 12" x 18" wide clumps. Blooms in spring, but the...

Grass looking perennial for average (medium moist) to wet soil, up to shallow water. Usually forms 0.5-1' tall and wide, compact mounds of golden-yellow leaves with thin green stripes. Leaves are...

Robust native perennial and great pollinator plant. Grows up to 6' in rich, moist soils, but in average or drier soil will reach 3-4' of height and 2' of width. Smaller flowers are pale purple, but...

Aromatic plant with fluffy white flowers in late summer, followed by fluffy seedheads, true pollinator magnet. 2-3' tall x 3-4' wide, spreads wide very slowly by underground rhizomes, but it is not...

Trouble free and no maintenance perennial for sunny or half-shade garden. One of the amsonias with the richest floral display and winners of Amsonia trials at Chicago Botanical G

Mountain Fleece is pretty much unknown plant in Midwest, but we expect this this will change. Hardy and easy to grow perennial from Himalaya, 3-4' tall and wide, more or less groundcovering clumps...

Robust fern that can reach royal size of 6' of height and 3' wide. Award of Garden Merit by Royal Horticultural Society (UK, 1993). The size depends on the soil and moisture, in average moist soil it...

Monarch favorite perennial with button-shaped flowers arranged in spikes in late summer and early fall. 2-4' tall x 1-2' wide (bigger in rich soils, where it may need staking).

Shorter cultivar of Joe Pye Weed suitable for smaller gardens or bigger containers. 3-4' tall and 1-3' wide clumps, pink umbrella flowers in July to September.