Storm Plant List

Successful Plants in Stormwater Gardens (Recommended for use) Research conducted in Ames by Iowa State University Department of Landscape Architecture 2007-2009 Part Common Name Scientific Name Height Sun Shade Shade Notes

Perennial Grasses Side-Oats Grama Little Bluestem Indian Grass

Bouteloua curtipendula 'Trailway' Schizachyrium scoparius 'Blaze' Sorghastrum nutans

Nodding Wild Onion Columbine Wild Ginger Butterfly Milkweed New England Aster Fringed Sedge Palm Sedge Turtlehead Pink Turtlehead Pale Purple Coneflower Purple Coneflower Savanna JoePye Strawberry Prairie Smoke False Sunflower Rough Blazing Star Cardinal Flower

Allium cernuum Aquilegia canadensis Asarum canadense Asclepias tuberosa Aster novae-angliae Carex crinita Carex muskingumensis Chelone glabra Chelone obliqua Echinacea pallida Echinacea purpurea Eupatorium purpureum Fragaria sp. Geum triflorum Heliopsis helianthoides 'Summer Sun' Liatris aspera Lobelia cardinalis

1-3' 1-3' 3-6'

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12-18" 1-3' 4-10" 1-3' 1-4' 1'-3' 1'-3' 1-3' 1-3' 2-4' 2-3' 3-6'

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x x x

x x x x x x

6-12" 2-5' 2-3' 2-4'

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1-4' 12-18" 1-4' 6-12" 9-24" 1-4' 1-3' 6-18" 3-7' 1-4' 1-4' 1-2' 1-2'

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1-2' 6-12"

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Herbaceous Perennials

Great Blue Lobelia Lobelia siphilitica Monkey Flower Mimulus ringens Bearded Foxglove Penstemon digitalis Woodland Phlox Phlox divaricata Jacob's Ladder Polemonium reptans Yellow Coneflower Ratibida pinnata Black-Eyed Susan Rudbeckia hirta Wild Petunia Ruellia humilis Cup Plant Silphium perfoliatum Stiff Goldenrod Solidago rigida Spiderwort Tradescanthia ohiensis Hoary Vervain Verbena stricta 'Prairie Candles' Heartleaved Golden Alexander Zizia aptera Failed Plants in Stormwater Gardens (not recommended for use) Silky Aster Aster sericeus Harebell Campanula rotundifolia

x x x

drier garden areas x x

x x

drier garden areas mixed success

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mixed success; poisonous mixed success; use in drier garden areas mixed success

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mixed success mixed success

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drier garden areas mixed success mixed success

Purple Prairie Clover Downy Prairie Phlox Culver's Root

Petalostemum [Dalea] purpureum Phlox pilosa Veronicastrum virginicum 'Albo-Rosea'

1-2' 6-18" 3-5'

x x x

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Date 6.9.09 For More Information, contact Associate Professor Mimi Wagner ([email protected])