Rain Gardens: Bio-Retention Plants
February 6, 2025
- Aquilegia can. (Wild Columbine)
- Asclepias incarnata (Swamp Milkweed)*
- Baptisia (False Indigo)
- Chelone glabra (Turtlehead)*
- Echinacea pur. (Purple Coneflower)
- Eupatorium (Joe-Pye Weed)
- Geranium mac. (Wild Geranium)
- Heliopsis (False Sunflower)
- Hibiscus mos. (Hardy Hibiscus)*
- Iris Versicolor (Blue Flag Iris)*
- Liatris spicata (Gayfeather)
- Lobelia (Blue or Cardinal)*
- Monarda (Bee Balm)
- Penstemon (Husker Red Beardtongue)
- Pycnanthemum (Mountain Mint)
- Rudbeckia (Black-Eyed Susan)
- Solidago (Goldenrod)
- Vernonia nov. (Ironweed)*
Shrubs
- Aronia arbutifolia (Red Chokeberry)*
- Aronia mel. (Black Chokeberry)*
- Calycanthus floridus (Sweetshrub)*
- Ceanothus amer. (New Jersey Tea)
- Clethra alnifolia (Summersweet)*
- Cornus sericea (Red Twig Dogwood)*
- Fothergillia
- Hydrangea arb. (Smooth Hydrangea)
- Hydrangea que. (Oakleaf Hydrangea)
- Ilex glabra (Inkberry Holly)
- Ilex opaca (American Holly)
- Ilex verticillata (Winterberry Holly)*
- Itea vir. (Virginia Sweetspire)*
- Lindera benzoin (Spicebush)*
- Physocarpus opu. (Ninebark)
- Rhododendron maximum
- Rhododendron vis. (Swamp Azalea)*
- Salix Nigra (Black Willow)
- Vaccinium cor. (Highbush Blueberry)
- Viburnum den. (Arrowwood Viburnum)*
- Viburnum nudum (Winterthur)
Grasses
- Andropogon (Bluestem)
- Carex stricta (Tussok Sedge)*
- Chasmanthium (Northern Sea Oats)*
- Deschampsia ces. (Tufted Hair Grass)
- Panicum vir. (Switchgrass)
- Schizachyrium sc. (Little Bluestem)
Ferns
- Athyrium fil. (Lady Fern)
- Matteuccia (Ostrich Fern)*
- Onoclea sen. (Sensitive Fern)
- Osmunda cin. (Cinnamon Fern)
- Osmunda reg. (Royal Fern)*
Deciduous Trees
- Acer rubrum (Red Maple)*
- Amelanchier (Serviceberry)
- Betula nigra (River Birch)*
- Chionanthus virginicus (Fringetree)*
- Magnolia vir. (Sweetbay Magnolia)*
- Nyssa sylvatica (Black Gum)*
- Quercus bicolor (Swamp White Oak)*
- Quercus phellos (Willow Oak)*
- Taxodium distichum (Baldcypress)*