Como Rain Garden Field Guide

Capitol Region Watershed District

Como Neighborhood

BIRDS

Rain Garden Field Guide of Plants and Wildlife

Northern House Wren Troglodytes aedon

Rain gardens provide habitat for many species of animals and insects, help filter rain water and add beauty to our neighborhoods.

Gray-headed Chickadee Poecile cinctus

Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis

Ruby Throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris

INSECTS Common Green Darner Dragonfly Anax junius Monarch Butterfly Danaus plexippus

American Goldfinch Carduelis tristis

Painted Lady Butterfly Vanessa virginiensis House Finch Carpodacus mexicanus 1410 Energy Park Drive, Ste 4 St. Paul, MN 55108 651-644-8888 | fax 651-644-8894 capitolregionwd.org

Questionmark Butterfly Polygonia interrogationis Red Admiral Butterfly Vanessa atalanta

Rain Garden Field Guide PLANTS Blue Flag Iris Iris versicolor Blue Vervain Verbena Hastata

Canada Anemone Anemone canadensis

Como Zoo

Cardinal Flower Lobelia cardinalis

Como Golf Course Pond Infiltration trenches AHUG

Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea

Rain gardens are planted depressions designed to allow runoff to soak into the ground. Rain garden plants provide wildlife habitat and add beauty to the neighborhood. When stormwater runoff soaks into the ground instead of flowing directly to

Little Bluestem Schizachyrium scoparuim

Como Lake, pollutants are filtered out.

Eight rain gardens were constructed in the Como neighborhood in 2005. Rain gardens keep about 95% of the pollution entering them from entering lakes and rivers.

Wild Bergamot Monarda fistulosa

Prairie Blazingstar Liatris pycnostachya

Red Osier Dogwood Cornus stolonifera

Fox Sedge Carex vulpinoida

Rattlesnake Master Eryngium yuccifolium

Golden Alexander Zizia aurea