Pollinator-Friendly Plants to Choose
Bees and other beneficial pollinators are disappearing at alarming rates. While we may not know the exact cause of the disappearance, we do know that some pesticides are contributing to their decline. But we also know there are simple things we can each do to help combat pollinator loss. By making simple choices such as choosing to plant pollinator-friendly plants to provide bees forage—we can all help address this crisis.
Pollinator-Friendly Flowers
*This is a partial list taken from Beyond Pesticides BEE Protective Habitat Guide
Click on the season to view pollinator-friendly flowers for your yard or garden, or download the PDF.
Spring and Early Summer
American Plum
American Vetch
Blanket Flower
Chokecherry
Clasping Coneflower
Daisy Fleabane
Foxglove Bearded Tongue
Golden Currant
Lyrate Rockcress
Ohio Spiderwort
Prairie Rose
Prickly Wild Rose
Red Flowering Currant
Rosemary
Sandcherry
Scarlet Gaura
Scarlet Globemallow
Shell-Leaf Penstemon
Skunkbush Sumac
Western Yarrow
Mid-Summer
Black-Eyed Susan
Black Samson
Blue Vervain
Butterfly Milkweed
Candle Anemone
Canadian Milkvetch
Canada Tick-Trefoil
Common Evening-Primrose
Common Milkweed
False Sunflower
Fireweed
Grayhead Coneflower
Great Blue Lobelia
Hoary Vervain
Illinois Bundleflower
Lanceleaf Coreopsis
Lemon Mint
Linden Tree
Pale Purple Coneflower
Plains Coreopsis
Prairie Cinquefoil
Prairie Gentian
Purple Prairie Clover
Rattlesnake Master
Rocky Mountain Bee Plant
Showy Milkweed
Sensitive Briar
Showy Partridge-Pea
Stiff Goldenrod
Upright Priarie Coneflower
Virginia Mountain Mint
Western Ironweed
Western Sunflower
Wholeleaf Rosinweed
Wild Bergamot
Late Summer and Fall
Aromatic Aster
Compass Plant
Cudweed Sagewort
Golden Alexander
Heath Aster
Jerusalem Artichoke
Late Goldenrod
New England Aster
Pine Deer Vetch
Pitcher Sage
Plains Sunflower
Roundhead Lespedeza
Stiff Goldenrod
Sawtooth Sunflower
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