Rain Garden Plants
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Ilex – Little Goblin Red Female Winterberry
Huge red berries on dwarf nativar shrub.
Itea – Short N’ Sweet Sweetspire
Fragrant flowers that will grow just about anywhere.
Lobelia siphilitica – Blue Cardinal Flower
Majestic Missouri native perennial.
Magnolia virginiana – Glauca Sweet Bay Magnolia
Grows a little smaller than the species Magnolia virginiana.
Penstemon digitalis – Smooth White Beardtongue
An important food source for pollinators.
Phlox paniculata – Garden Phlox
Missouri native with fragrant flowers for months.
Quercus bicolor – Swamp White Oak Tree
Bring the gift of nature home with this beauty, MO and IL native.
Quercus macrocarpa – Bur Oak
Showy acorns and leaves on a statuesque tree.
Quercus rubra – Red Oak Tree
Statuesque MO and IL native tree.
Rudbeckia fulgida – Shining Black-Eyed Susan
Birds love this Illinois and Missouri native's seeds.
Senecio aureus – Golden Groundsel
Dream plant for tough dry shade spots.
Sporobolus heterolepis – Prairie Dropseed
Popular Missouri native grass that smells like popcorn.
Veronicastrum virginicum – Culver’s Root
Majestic Missouri native perennial.
Iodanthus pinnatifidus – Purple Rocket
A Missouri and Illinois native that brings color to shady spots.
Oligoneuron ridellii – Riddell’s Goldenrod
An important pollinator food source.
Rudbeckia subtomentosa – Sweet Coneflower
Armloads of cut flowers with the Missouri native sun perennial.
Baptisia sphaerocarpa – Yellow Wild Indigo
Spectacular Missouri wildflower.
Eupatorium – Gateway Joe Pye Weed
Just like its huge cousin, but at 5' only 1/2 as tall.
Packera aurea – Golden Groundsel
Dream plant for tough dry shade spots.
Panicum – Blood Brothers Red Switch Grass
Dramatic grass with wine red blades, easy to grow.
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