Flowering Annuals That Can Grow in Wet Conditions

Below you will find a list of flowering annuals from our database that can grow in wet climates. If you click on any of the photos, you will see a Virtual Plant Tag that may contain photos, plant descriptions, usage suggestions and a link to where you can buy that plant.

Many annuals that flower can flourish in wet areas, even standing water, but some of these same plants can also do quite well in dry areas or places in the landscape with average moisture. 

With so many gorgeous bedding and container plants that will grow and flower well in wet places in the garden, you can choose what colors or accents you want to enliven your landscaping with. Known as Carpathian Bellflower, Tussock Bellflower or Carpathian Harebell, the Campanula carpatica and selections or cultivars can be grown as an annual or a perennial provided that moist soil has a chance to drain between rain or waterings. One of the most popular Bellflowers, they do well in any type of above ground container too.

Gaining ground for its intense colors are the Chile Peppers, now being grown as an ornamental since so many new colors and forms are available. Known also as Mexican Hot Peppers and Paprika, Capsicum annuum's fruits are where the bright red, orange, yellow and purple colors are. Breeding is resulting in new selections with variegated leaves and variegated fruit, frequently on compact plants that work better in the garden and add a splash of color and texture to containers.

A group of plants not always thought of as annuals are Cannas. While tolerant of a wide range of conditions if given adequate sun, Cannas will grow and flower nicely in standing water all the way to a baked dry island bed in the median strip of a highway. You will enjoy all season color until frost.

Not well-known, but deserving to be, is Shrubby Perilla, Perilla frutescens. Sunny and dry or Partially Shady and moist or wet, these fast growing annuals quickly become favorites where their reseeding is welcome. Less formal in texture, the Perilla adds fragrance and color with purple speckles to the dark green leaves.

Hybridization work with Verbena is giving us lacy leaves, a vast array of bloom colors and increased tolerance to growing in wetter spots in the garden. It is still best to use Verbena in areas that drain between waterings and lend themselves well to container gardening since both flowers and foliage is attractive. Bedding Verbenas come into flower early in the spring with white, light and dark pinks, blue, lavender-pink, purple, coral-pink, burgundy, cherry, hot pink and lavender-blue.  New compact forms work well in pots.

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Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Aconite Buttercup Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas African Mask Green-Velvet Alocasia
Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas African Mask Wavy Alocasia Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Aglia New Guinea Impatiens
Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Alba Moss Verbena Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Alonsoa
Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Angelica Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Archangel
Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Atamasco Lily Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Aurea Nana Joyweed
Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Aurea Nana Shoo-Fly Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Aussie Blue Morning Glory
Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Australia Canna Lily Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Australia Indian Shot
Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Baby Moon Trailing Morning Glory Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Beefsteak Plant
Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Bengal Tiger' (Pretoria) Canna Lily Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Bengal Tiger' (Pretoria) Indian Shot
Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Black Knight Canna Lily Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Black Knight Indian Shot
Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Blackie Aquatic Morning Glory Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Blackie Sweet Potato
Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Bladder Cherry Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Blue Daisy
Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Blue Danube Floss Flower Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Blue Horizon Floss Flower
Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Blue Marguerite Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Blue Pimpernel
Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Bluemink Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Brandywine Canna Lily
Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Brandywine Indian Shot Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Bush Morning Glory
Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Butter and Eggs var. sulphurea Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas California Bluebell
Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas California Fuschia Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Candidum Caladium
Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Carpathian Bellflower var. turbinata Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Cerulean Flaxlily
Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Chater's Pink Hollyhock Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Chinese Lantern
Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Creeping Scaevola Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Dasheen
Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Desert Bluebells Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Diablo Kenikir
Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Diablo Sulphur Cosmos Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Dropmore Italian Alkanet
Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Dropmore Italian Bugloss Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Edith Moss Verbena
Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Ehemannii' (Eagmannii) Nodding Canna Growing Flowering Annuals in Wet Areas Elephant Ear
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