Common Name

Scientific Name

Habit

Height (ft)

Flowering Time

Flower Color

Interesting Traits

American Lotus or

Water Lotus

Nelumbo

lutea

Herb

2-4#

July-Aug

Pale

Yellow

Dried fruits for floral use

Blue Flag

Iris

Iris shrevei*

Herb

3–4

May-June

Blue-Purple

Cut flowers

Buttonbush

Cephalanthus

occidentalis

Shrub

8–10

June-Aug

White

Ball-shaped flower cluster

Great Blue

Lobelia

Lobelia

siphilitica

Herb

1-4

Aug–Oct

Blue-

Purple

Birds;

Cut flowers

Halberd-Leaved Rose Mallow

Hibiscus laevis

Herb

3-7#

July-Sept

White with Red Center

Large, showy flowers

Pickerelweed

Pontederia

cordata

Herb

1-3#

May–Sept

Blue-Purple

Waterfowl;

Dragonflies

Swamp

Milkweed

Asclepias

incarnata

Herb

3-5

June–Aug

Pink - Red

Butterflies

Sweet

Flag

Acorus calamus

Herb

2-4#

May–Aug

Green

Cut flowers (spadix);

Fragrant leaves

White Turtlehead

Chelone

glabra

Herb

2–3

July–Oct

White/

Cream

Cut flowers;

Birds

Wool Grass

Scirpus cyperinus

Sedge

3-5

Aug-Oct

Greenish-

Brown

Waterfowl