Stephen Albert
Usually wet soil and boggy soil poses a difficult problem for the gardener. Few plants can thrive where roots remain wet nearly all of the time.
Some plants native to boggy soil or that grow at the edge of lakes and rivers can transform a sodden area of the garden into a green and colorful space.
Here is a list of plants adapted to sodden earth.
| Common Name | Botanical Name | Zones |
| Chinese astilbe | Astilbe chinensis | 4-8 |
| Featherleaf Rodgersia | Rodgersia pinnata | 3-7 |
| Horsetails | Equisetum spp. | 3-11 |
| Hostas | Hosta spp. | 3-9 |
| Lady’s mantle | Alchemilla mollis | 4-7 |
| Marsh fern | Thelypteris palustris | 5-8 |
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| Common Name | Botanical Name | Zones |
| Meadow anemone | Anemone canadensis | 3-7 |
| Pink tickseed | Coreopsis rosea | 4-8 |
| Primroses | Primula spp. | 4-8 |
| Sedges | Carex spp. | 5-9 |
| Siberian bugloss | Brunnera macrophylla | 3-7 |
| Sweet Flat | Acorus gramineus | 10-11 |
| Sweet Woodruff | Galium odoratum | 5-8 |
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