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Background Information Recommended plants for stormwater/rain gardens in Ames

Project Vision
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Common Name Scientific Name Height Sun Shade Notes
Project Timeline Shade

Information for neighborhood Perennial Grasses

residents
Bouteloua curtipendula
Side-Oats Grama 1-3' x
Funded Project Research 'Trailway

Schizachyrium
Little Bluestem 1-3' x x
scoparius 'Blaze'

Indian Grass Sorghastrum nutans 3-6' x

Herbaceous Perennials x

Nodding Wild drier garden

Allium cernuum 12-18" x x
Onion areas

Columbine Aquilegia canadensis 1-3' x x x

Wild Ginger Asarum canadense 4-10" x x

drier garden
Butterfly Milkweed Asclepias tuberosa 1-3' x
areas

New England
Aster novae-angliae 1-4' x
Aster

mixed
Fringed Sedge Carex crinita 1-3'
success

Palm Sedge Carex muskingumensis 1-3' x x

Turtlehead Chelone glabra 1-3' x

Pink Turtlehead Chelone obliqua 1-3' x

Pale Purple
Echinacea pallida 2-4' x x
Coneflower

Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea 2-3' x x

Savanna JoePye Eupatorium purpureum 3-6' x x x

Strawberry Fragaria sp. x

Prairie Smoke Geum triflorum 6-12" x

Heliopsis helianthoides
False Sunflower 2-5' x
'Summer Sun'

Rough Blazing
Liatris aspera 2-3' x
Star

mixed
Cardinal Flower Lobelia cardinalis 2-4' x x success;
poisonous

mixed
success; use
Great Blue Lobelia Lobelia siphilitica 1-4' x x
in drier
garden areas

mixed
Monkey Flower Mimulus ringens 12-18" x x
success

Bearded Foxglove Penstemon digitalis 1-4' x

mixed
Woodland Phlox Phlox divaricata 6-12" x x
success

mixed
Jacob's Ladder Polemonium reptans 9-24" x x
success

Yellow Coneflower Ratibida pinnata 1-4' x

Black-Eyed Susan Rudbeckia hirta 1-3' x

Wild Petunia Ruellia humilis 6-18" x x

Cup Plant Silphium perfoliatum 3-7' x

Stiff Goldenrod Solidago rigida 1-4' x

drier garden
Spiderwort Tradescanthia ohiensis 1-4' x x
areas

Verbena stricta 'Prairie mixed

Hoary Vervain 1-2' x
Candles' success

Heartleaved mixed
Zizia aptera 1-2' x x
Golden Alexander success

Failed Plants in Stormwater Gardens (not recommended for use)

Silky Aster Aster sericeus 1-2' x

Harebell Campanula rotundifolia 6-12' x x

Purple Prairie Petalostemum [Dalea]

1-2' x
Clover purpureum

Downy Prairie
Phlox pilosa 6-18' x
Phlox

Veronicastrum
Culver's Root 3-5' x x
virginicum 'Albo-Rosea'

Recommended plants for near-stream areas in Ames

Recommended landscape plants for yards in Ames

Invasive (not recommended) plants of concern in College Creek Area

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