I find myself besieged by questions about food-plants that can withstand flooding and soils with high water-tables. It probably has to do with the exceptional, but not unprecedented, rainfall we had this spring in Michigan.
Most resistant
- Wild rice
- Domesticated rice
- Watercress
- Cattails
- Cranberries
- Lotus
- Water Chestnuts
- Chufa
Very resistant
- Mint (almost all kinds)
- Currants
- Some species of Gooseberries
- Elderberries
- Aronia
- Some viburnum species
- Some brambles
- Mayhaws
- Some "Asian" greens
- Sorrel (Rumex) not including Sheep Sorrel
- Daylily
- Hardy Hibiscus
- Some species of oak; Q. bicolor, Q. palustris, Q. lyrata, Q. nigra, Q. phellos, Q. nuttallii/texana
- Some species of roses; R. palustris, R. multiflora (sometimes used as a rootstock for grafted roses)
Resistant
- Black Walnut
- Pecans and some other hickory species
- Some strains of American Hazelnut
- Chives
- Most non-root garden vegetables when grown on raised-beds
- Soybeans
- Grapes with Vitis riparia in their pedigree
- Highbush Blueberries (raised beds)
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