Capitol Region Watershed District

Como Neighborhood Rain Garden Field Guide

of Plants and Wildlife

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

American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis

Gray-headed Chickadee

Poecile cinctus

House FinchCarpodacus mexicanus

Northern House WrenTroglodytes aedon

Ruby Throated Hummingbird

Archilochus colubris

CardinalCardinalis cardinalis

BIRDS

Monarch ButterflyDanaus plexippus

Painted Lady Butterfly

Vanessa virginiensis

QuestionmarkButterflyPolygonia interrogationis

Red AdmiralButterfly

Vanessa atalanta

Common GreenDarner Dragonfly

Anax junius

1410 Energy Park Drive, Ste 4St. Paul, MN 55108

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INSECTS

Como Golf Course Pond

Infiltration trenches

AHUG

Como Zoo

Rain Garden Field Guide

Blue Flag IrisIris versicolor

PLANTS

Golden AlexanderZizia aurea

Canada AnemoneAnemone canadensis

Fox SedgeCarex vulpinoida

Blue VervainVerbena Hastata

Cardinal FlowerLobelia cardinalis

Purple ConeflowerEchinacea purpurea

Red Osier DogwoodCornus stolonifera

Rattlesnake MasterEryngium yuccifolium

Prairie BlazingstarLiatris pycnostachya

Little BluestemSchizachyrium

scoparuim

Wild BergamotMonarda fistulosa

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 neighbor-

hood. When stormwater runoff soaks into the ground instead of flowing directly to

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.