Rain Garden Plants
Used Successfully in Central Indiana
List update February 2011
| Grasses and Sedges | |
| Common Name | Latin Name |
| Yellow Fox Sedge | Carex annectans var xanthocarpa |
| Brome Hummock Sedge | Carex bromoides |
| Riverbank Tussock Sedge | Carex emoryi |
| Frank's Sedge | Carex frankii |
| Meadow Sedge | Carex granularis |
| Burr Sedge | Carex grayii |
| Palm Sedge | Carex muskingumensis |
| Fox Sedge | Carex vulpinoidea |
| Tufted Hair Grass | Deschampsia caespitosa |
| Switchgrass | Panicum virgatum |
| Little Bluestem | Schizachyrium scoparium |
| Woolgrass | Scirpus cyperinus |
| Reddish Bulrush | Scirpus pendulus |
| Prairie Dropseed | Sporobolus heterolepis |
| Wildflowers | |
| Marsh Milkweed | Asclepias incarnata |
| Shining Aster | Aster firmus |
| New England Aster | Aster novae-angliae |
| Swamp Aster | Aster puniceus |
| Flat-topped Aster | Aster umbellatus |
| Blue False Indigo | Baptisia australis |
| White Turtlehead | Chelone glabra |
| Pink Turtlehead | Chelone obliqua |
| Purple Coneflower | Echinacea purpurea |
| Blue Mist Flower | Eupatorium coelestinum |
| Hollow Joe-Pye Weed | Eupatorium fistulosum |
| Spotted Joe-Pye Weed | Eupatorium maculatum |
| Boneset | Eupatorium perfoliatum |
| Queen of the Prairie | Filipendula rubra |
| Bottle Gentian | Gentiana andrewsii |
| Autumn Sneezeweed | Helenium autumnale |
| Blue Flag | Iris virginica shrevei |
| Blue Flag | Iris virginica-shrevei |
| Dense Blazing Star | Liatris spicata |
| Cardinal Flower | Lobelia cardinalis |
| Great Blue Lobelia | Lobelia siphilitica |
| Monkeyflower | Mimulus ringens |
| Smooth Penstemon | Penstemon calycosus |
| Foxglove Beardtongue | Penstemon digitalis |
| Obedient Plant | Physostegia virginiana |
| Mountain Mint | Pycnanthemum virginianum |
| Yellow Coneflower | Ratibida pinnata |
| Showy Black-Eyed Susan | Rudbeckia fulgida speciosa |
| Sweet Black-Eyed Susan | Rudbeckia subtomentosa |
| Golden Ragwort | Senecio aureus |
| Riddell's Goldenrod | Solidago riddellii |
| Wrinkled Goldenrod | Solidago rugosa |
| Smooth Ironweed | Vernonia fasciculata |
| Culver's Root | Veronicastrum virginicum |
| Golden Alexanders | Zizia aurea |