Special Value to Honey Bees
Identified by beekeepers and pollination biologists as an important pollen or nectar source (honey plant) for honey bees. This information was provided by the Pollinator Program at The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Asclepias viridis | Green Milkweed Spider Milkweed | |
Catalpa bignonioides | Southern Catalpa Cigar Tree Indian Bean | |
Catalpa speciosa | Northern Catalpa Catalpa Tree Cigar Tree Indian Bean | |
Ceanothus griseus | Carmel Ceanothus Carmel Creeper Yankee Point Ceanothus | |
Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common Buttonbush Buttonbush Button Willow Honey Bells Honeybells Honey Balls Honeyballs Button-bush | |
Ceanothus purpureus | Hollyleaf Ceanothus | |
Ceanothus tomentosus | Woolyleaf Ceanothus Woolly-leaf Mountain Lilac Ramona Lilac | |
Chamerion angustifolium | Fireweed Willow Herb Great Willow Herb | |
Chamerion latifolium | Dwarf Fireweed Broad-leaf Fireweed | |
Clethra alnifolia | Coastal Pepperbush Coastal Sweet Pepperbush Coastal Sweet Pepper Alderleaf Pepperbush Alderleaf Clethra Clethra Summer Sweet | |
Dalea aurea | Golden Dalea Golden Prairie Clover | |
Dalea bicolor var. argyrea | Silver Prairie Clover Silver Dalea Silver Bush Dalea | |
Dalea candida | White Prairie Clover | |
Dalea candida var. candida | White Prairie Clover White Prairie-clover | |
Dalea compacta | Compact Prairie Clover Purple Prairie Clover | |
Dalea compacta var. pubescens | Compact Prairie Clover Purple Prairie Clover | |
Dalea emarginata | Wedgeleaf Prairie Clover | |
Dalea enneandra | Nine-anther Prairie Clover | |
Dalea feayi | Feay's Prairie Clover Globe-headed Prairie Clover | |
Dalea formosa | Featherplume Feather Dalea Indigobush | |
Dalea frutescens | Black Dalea Black Prairie Clover | |
Dalea greggii | Gregg Dalea Gregg's Prairie Clover Trailing Indigo Bush Indigo Bush | |
Dalea hallii | Hall's Prairie Clover Hall's Dalea | |
Dalea jamesii | James's Prairie Clover | |
Dalea lachnostachys | Glandleaf Prairie Clover | |
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