Plants Suitable For Rain Gardens Here is a list of just a few of the plants that would be happy in a rain garden. California natives are notes with an *. Perennials, wildflowers and ferns: Salvia greggii, Cherry sage Achillea millefolium*, Common Yarrow Salvia leucophylla*, Purple Sage Aquilegia Formosa*, Western Columbine Grasses and sedges: Aralia californica*, Elk Clover Carex nudata*, California Black-flowering Sedge Aristolochia californica*, California Pipevine Carex barbarae*, Santa Barbara Sedge Darmera peltata*, Umbrella Plant Chondropetalum tectorum*, Small Cape Rush Delphinium glaucum*, Tower Delphinium Festuca mairei*, Atlas Fescue Dicentra formosa, Pacific Bleeding Heart Juncus patens*, California Gray Rush Epipactis gigantea*, Stream Orchid Muhlenbergia rigens*, Deer Grass Epilobium canum latifolium*, California Fuchsia Muhlenbergia capillaris*, Purple Deer Grass Erigeron glaucus*, Beach Aster Eriogonum fasciculatum*, California Buckwheat Trees and shrubs: Gaillardia spp., Blanketflowers Calycanthus occidentalis*, Western Spicebush Lilium pardalinum*, Leopard Lily Corylus cornuta var. californica*, Hazelnut Mimulus aurantiacus*, Sticky Monkey Flower Myrica californica*, Pacific Wax Myrtle Mimulus cardinalis*, Scarlet Monkey Flower Physocarpus capitatus*, Pacific Ninebark Mimulus primuloides*, Primrose Monkey Flower Populus fremontii*, Fremont Cottonwood Mirabilis multiflora, Giant four o'clock Salix lucida ssp. lasiandra*, Yellow Tree Willow Penstemon heterophyllus*, Beard Tongue Ribes sanguineum*, Red-flowering Currant Polypodium californicum*, California Polypody Romneya coulteri*, Matilija Poppy Rubus spectabilis*, Salmonberry Rudbeckia californica*, California Coneflower Vaccinium ovatum*, California Huckleberry Washingtonia filifera*, California Fan Palm .