Rain Garden Plants for Partial Shade

1. RAIN GARDEN PLANTS
PARTIAL SHADE serenity now
3-6
Hours
dry
medium
Photo: Prairie Moon Nursery
Photo: Missouri Botanical Garden
Photo: Prairie Nursery
Photo: Prairie Nursery
Photo: Prairie Nursery
COMMON OAK SEDGE
Carex pensylvanica
JACOB’S LADDER (May-Jun) CANADA ANEMONE NODDING ONION (Jul-Aug)
SIDEOATS GRAMA GRASS Polemonium reptans Anemone canadensis Allium cernuum
Bouteloua curtipendula
Notes:
Plants are 3’ tall or less.
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dry
medium Follow spacing guidelines
for each plant species
Photo: Prairie Moon Nursery
Photo: Prairie Moon Nursery
wet or assume 12-18” spacing.
Gardens may require
watering during the
rst year.
CREAM WILD INDIGO* BOTTLE GENTIAN (Aug-Sep)
Bloom times may vary. Gentiana andrewsii
Baptisia leucophaea
RAIN GARDEN LAYOUT
wet
Photo: Missouri Botanical Garden
Photo: Missouri Botanical Garden
Photo: Prairie Nursery
Photo: UW-Arboretum
Photo: Prairie Nursery
VIRGINIA BLUEBELLS (Apr-May)
Mertensia virginica
HAREBELL (Jun-Sep)
Campanula rotundifolia
VIRGINIA MOUNTAIN MINT (Jun-Sep) BLUE LOBELIA (Jul-Oct) SWEET GRASS
Pycnanthemum virginianum Lobelia silphilitica Hierochloe odorata
*or Cream False Indigo (Baptisia bracteata)