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Engineering Downtown Offices Closed to Public, Dec. 26 & 27, 2024.
Offices will be closed, however, City of Madison Engineering Division staff will be available by phone: 608-266-4751 and email: engineering@cityofmadison.com.
Rain Garden Plant List
Full Sun DIY Plant Guide
Shade DIY Plant Guide
Part-Shade DIY Plant Guide
Scientific Name | Common Name | Full Sun | Partial Sun | Shade |
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Asclepias incarnata | Swamp milkweed | X | X | |
Carex comosa | Bottlebrush sedge | X | ||
Chelone glabra | Turtlehead | X | ||
Elymus virginicus | Virginia wild rye | X | X | X |
Iris versicolor | Northern blue flag iris | X | X | |
Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal flower | X | X | |
Lobelia siphilitica | Great blue lobelia | X | X | |
Matteuccia struthiopteris | Ostrich fern | X | X | X |
Mimulus ringens | Monkey flower | X | X | |
Physostegia virginiana | Obedient plant | X | X | |
Scirpus atrovirens | Dark-green bulrush | X | ||
Senna hebecarpa | Wild senna | X | X | |
Spartina pectinata | Prairie cordgrass | X | X | |
Verbena hastasa | Blue vervain | X | X | |
Vernonia fasciculata | Ironweed | X | X |
Scientific Name | Common Name | Full Sun | Partial Sun | Shade |
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Agastache scrophulariaefolia | Purple giant hyssop | X | X | |
Allium cernuum | Nodding onion | X | X | |
Anemone canadensis | Canada anenome | X | X | |
Blephilia ciliata | Downy wood mint | X | X | |
Bouteloua curtipendula | Side oats grama | X | ||
Campanula americana | Tall bellflower | X | X | |
Campanula rotundifolia | Harebell | X | X | |
Carex bebbii | Bebb's oval sedge | X | ||
Carex vulpinoidea | Brown fox sedge | X | X | |
Coreopsis palmata | Prairie coreopsis | X | ||
Elymus hystrix | Bottlebrush grass | X | X | |
Eutrochium purpureum | Sweet Joe-pye weed | X | X | |
Fragaria virginiana | Wild strawberry | X | X | X |
Geranium maculatum | Wild geranium | X | X | X |
Heliopsis helianthoides | Early sunflower | X | X | |
Hypericum pyramidatum | Great Saint John's wort | X | X | |
Hydrophyllum virginianum | Virginia waterleaf | X | X | |
Liatris ligulistylus | Meadow blazing star | X | X | |
Monarda fistulosa | Wild bergamot | X | X | |
Oligoneuron ridelli | Ridell's goldenrod | X | ||
Oligoneuron rigidum | Stiff goldenrod | X | X | |
Penstemon digitalis | Foxglove beardtongue | X | X | |
Polemonium reptans | Jacob's ladder | X | X | X |
Pycnanthemum virginianum | Mountain mint | X | X | |
Rudbeckia subtomentosa | Sweet black-eyed Susan | X | X | |
Silene regia | Royal catchfly | X | X | |
Solidago flexicalus | Zigzag goldenrod | X | X | |
Solidago speciosa | Showy goldenrod | X | X | |
Sporobolus heterolepis | Prairie dropseed | X | X | |
Symphyotrichum azureus | Sky blue aster | X | X | |
Symphyotrichum macrophyllus | Big-leaved aster | X | X | |
Thalictrum dioicum | Early meadow rue | X | X | |
Tradescantia ohiensis | Spiderwort | X | X | |
Verbena stricta | Hoary vervain | X | X | |
Veronicastrum virginicum | Culver's root | X | X | |
Zizia aurea | Golden alexander | X | X |
Scientific Name | Common Name | Full Sun | Partial Sun | Shade |
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Anemone virginiana | Tall thimbleweed | X | X | X |
Aquilegia canadensis | Columbine | X | X | X |
Asclepias tuberosa | Butterfly milkweed | X | X | |
Baptisia alba | Wild white indigo | X | X | |
Dalea purpurea | Purple prairie clover | X | ||
Drymocallis arguta | Prairie cinquefoil | X | ||
Phlox pilosa | Prairie phlox | X | ||
Schizachyrium scoparium | Little bluestem | X | X |