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Home My WebLink AboutRain garden plants Native Flowers Picture Color Characteristics Bottle Gentian Blue 1 ft, novel purple flowers Great Blue Lobelia Blue 1-3ft Hoary Vervain Blue 2-3ft Butterfly Milkweed Orange 1-4 ft, emerges late spring; no milky sap Pale Purple Coneflower Purple 4 ft, Prairie Blazing Star Purple 2-5 ft, for moist soils Silky Aster Purple 1-2 ft, loved by rabbits Prairie Phlox Pink 1-3ft Prairie Smoke Pink 1 ft, makes a good border Recommended Rain Garden Native Plants Native Flowers Picture Color Characteristics Shooting Star Pink 8-24in Columbine Pink 1-2 ft, orange flower stalk may add 1 ft Culver’s Root White 3-6 ft, can get tall; for moderately moist soils Mountain Mint White 1-3 ft, for moist soils Nodding Onion White 1-2 ft, for moderately moist soils Black-eyed Susan Yellow 1-3ft, biennial Golden Alexander Yellow 1-3 ft, yellow dill-like flower, mod moist soils Longheaded Coneflower Yellow 2-3ft Recommended Rain Garden Native Plants Native Grasses Picture Characteristics Prairie Dropseed 2ft, compact clump Little Bluestem 2 ft, nice rusty color all winter grass Fox Sedge 1-3 ft, may not tolerate drought grass Sideoats Grama 2-3 ft, red anthers; not as tidy as little bluestem grass Recommended Rain Garden Native Plants