Connecticut Native Plantings for Wet Meadows

Woody Edges American Cranberry Bush Viburnum trilobum

Photos 1, 2, 3, 5: University of CT Database, www.hort.uconn.edu/plants; Photo 4: Ariel Toh, Connecticut Botanical Society, www.ct-botanical-society.org Buttonbush Cephalanthus occidentalis

Photos: Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder Gray Dogwood racemosa

Photos: Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder Meadowsweet Spiraea latifolia

2-4’, mounded, fast-growing. Spreads by stolons.

Photos: Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder Pinxterbloom Azalea Rhododendron periclymenoides

Photos: Janet Novak, CT Botanical Society, www.ct-botanical-society.org Pussy Willow Salix discolor

Photos: Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder Red Chokeberry Aronia arbutifolia

Photos: Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder Redosier Dogwood Cornus sericea

Photo 1: Virginia Tech Dept. of Forestry, www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/syllabus/factsheetcfm?ID=207 Photos 2 & 3: Univ. of CT Plant Database, www.hort.uconn.edu/plants; Photo 4: Clayton J. Antieau. River Birch Betula nigra

Photos 1 & 3: University of CT Plant Database, www.hort.uconn.edu/plants; Photo 2: North Central Conservation District Shadbush Amelanchier

Photos 1, 3 5 6:: University of CT Plant Database, www.hort.uconn.edu/plants; Photos 2 & 4: Missouri Botanical Garden, www..mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder Silky Dogwood Cornus amomum

Photos: Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder Steeplebush Spiraea tomentosa

2-4’, erect unbranched stems. Forms thickets by underground stolons.

Photo 1: Robert Biernan, Robert W. Freckmann Herbarium, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Wisconsin Plants, http://wisplants.uwsp.edu; Photo 2: Janet Novak, CT Botanical Society, www.ct-botanical-society.org Sweetgale Myrica gale

Photos: Louis M. Landry, CalPhotos, University of Califormia, Berkeley, http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=dl&enlarge=000 0+0000+0506+2446 Sweet Pepperbush Clethra alnifolia

Photos: University of CT Plant Database, www.hort.uconn.edu/plants Winterberry Ilex verticillata

Photo 1: North Central Conservation District; Photo 2: Univ. of CT Plant Database, www.hort.uconn.edu/plants Photos 3 and 4: Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder Connecticut Native Plantings for Wet Meadows

Perennials Blue Flag Iris Iris versicolor

Photos: North Central Conservation District Blue Vervain hastata

Photos: Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder Boneset Eupatorium perfoliatum

Photos: Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder Cinnamon Fern Osmunda cinnamomea

Photo: Janet Novak, CT Botanical Society, www.ct-botanical-society.org Cut-leaf Coneflower Rudbeckia laciniata

Photo : Kurt Stuber, Robert W. Freckmann Herbarium, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Wisconsin Plants,http://wisplants.uwsp.edu Fringed Loosestrife ciliata

Thomas G. Barnes @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Barnes, T.G., and S.W. Francis. 2004. Wildflowers and ferns of Kentucky. University Press of Kentucky. Golden Alexander Zizea aurea

Photos: Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder Golden Ragwort Senecio aureus

Robert H. Mohlenbrock @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database Goldenrod Solidago species

Photo 1: North Central Conservation District; Photo 2: Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder, www.mobot.org/gardneinghelp/plantfinder Great Blue Lobelia Lobelia siphilitica

Photo 1: Eleanor Saulys, Connecticut Botanical Society, www.ct-botanical-society.org Photo 2: Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder, www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder Ironweed Vernonia noveboracensis

Photo: Eleanor Saulys, CT Botanical Society, www.ct-botanical-society.org Joe Pye Weed Eupatorium purpureum

Photos: Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder Marsh Marigold Caltha palustris

Photos 1& 2: Eleanor Saulys, CT Botanical Society, www.ct-botanical-society.org; Photo 3: Richard Bauer, Robert W. Freckmann Herbarium, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Wisconsin Plants, http://wisplants.uwsp.edu Monkey Mimulus ringens

Photos: Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder New England Aster Aster novae-angliae

Photos: Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder Pickerel Weed Pondeteria cordata

Photos:Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder Royal Fern Osmunda regalis

Photos: Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder Sedges Carex species

Photo: Jennifer Anderson @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database Sensitive Fern Onoclea sensibilis

Photo: Carol Levine, Connecticut Botanical Society, www.ct-botanical-society.org Sneezeweed Helenium autumnal

Photos: Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder Soft Rush Juncus effuses

Photo: Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder Spotted Jewelweed Impatiens capensis

Photos: Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder Swamp Aster Aster puniceus

Photo: Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder Swamp Milkweed Asclepias incarnata

Photo 1: Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder; Photo 2: Janet Novak, Connecticut Botanical Society, www.ct-botanical-society.org Swamp Rose Mallow Hibiscus moscheutos

; Photo: Eleanor Saulys, Connecticut Botanical Society, www.ct-botanical-society.org Switchgrass Panicum virgatum

Photos: Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder Turk’s Cap Lily Lilium superbum

Photo: Janet Novak, Connecticut Botanical Society, www.ct-botanical-society.org Turtlehead Chelone glabra

Photo 1: Mark Mittlestadt, Mineral Point, WI, University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point, http://wisplants.uwsp.edu; Photo 2: Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder