Rain Garden Plant Lists

Below are the plant lists from the Leadership Hilton Head-Class of 2010 Rain Garden projects at the Coastal Discovery Museum at Honey Horn Plantation on Hilton Head Island, and at Red Cedar Elementary School in Bluffton.


Honey Horn Rain Garden:

• Saw Palmetto (Serenoa repens)
• Fetterbush (Lyonia lucida)
• Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis)
• Sweetspire (Itea virginica 'Little Henry')
• Variegated Acorus Grass (Acorus gramineaus variegata)
• Blue Flag Iris (Iris virginica)
• Butterfly Weed (Asclepis curassavica 'Blood Flower')
• Bee Balm (Monarda didyma)
• Rudbeckia (Rudbeckia fulgida)
• Lantana (Lantana 'Miss Huff')
• Sedum (Sedum 'Matrona')

Red Cedar Rain Garden:

• Saw Palmetto (Serenoa repens)
• Dog Hobble (Luecothoe axillaris)
• Dwarf Wax-Myrtle (Myrica cerifera 'nana')
• Henry's Garnet Itea (Itea virginica)
• Louisiana Iris (Iris louisiana)
• Bunny Blue Sedge Grass (Carex laxiculmis)
• Soft Rush (Juncus effusus)
• Pink Muhly Grass (Muhlenbergia capillaris)
• Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia fulgida)