Mid-Atlantic Pollinator Plant List
Recommended native plants that are highly attractive to pollinators such as native bees, honey bees, butterflies, moths, and hummingbirds. Visit Pollinator Conservation Resources – Mid-Atlantic Region for additional information. The pollinator resources found on this page support habitat projects in southern New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Northern North Carolina. This information provided by the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation.scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
Abronia ameliae | Amelia's Sand-verbena Heart's Delight | |
Abronia angustifolia | Purple Sand Verbena Narrow-leaf Sand-verbena | |
Abronia fragrans | Fragrant Sand-verbena Snowball Sand Verbena Sweet Sand-verbena Prairie Snowball Sand Verbena Heart's Delight | |
Abutilon fruticosum | Indian Mallow Texas Indian Mallow | |
Abronia umbellata | Pink Sand Verbena Beach Sand Verbena | |
Abronia villosa | Desert Sand Verbena Desert Sand-verbena Desert Sandverbena | |
Aconitum columbianum | Columbian Monkshood | |
Actaea elata | Tall Bugbane | |
Acalypha gracilens | Slender Threeseed Mercury | |
Acleisanthes longiflora | Angel's Trumpets Angel Trumpets | |
Achillea millefolium | Common Yarrow Western Yarrow Yarrow Milfoil | |
Achillea millefolium var. borealis | Boreal Yarrow | |
Acalypha monostachya | Round Copperleaf | |
Acourtia nana | Dwarf Desertpeony | |
Acalypha ostryifolia | Pineland Threeseed Mercury Hop-hornbeam Copperleaf | |
Actaea pachypoda | White Baneberry Dolls Eyes | |
Acalypha radians | Cardinal's Feather Cardinal Feather | |
Actaea racemosa var. racemosa | Black Cohosh Black Bugbane Bugbane Black Snakeroot Fairy Candles | |
Acalypha rhomboidea | Common Threeseed Mercury Virginia Threeseed Mercury | |
Actaea rubra | Red Baneberry | |
Actaea rubra ssp. arguta | Red Baneberry | |
Achillea sibirica | Siberian Yarrow | |
Achlys triphylla | Sweet After Death Sweet-after-death Vanilla Leaf | |
Acourtia wrightii | Brownfoot Pink Perezia | |
Agoseris aurantiaca | Orange Agoseris | |
Agastache foeniculum | Blue Giant Hyssop Blue Giant-hyssop Fragrant Giant Hyssop Lavender Hyssop Anise Hyssop | |
Agrimonia gryposepala | Tall Hairy Agrimony Agrimony | |
Agalinis heterophylla | Prairie Agalinis Prairie False-foxglove | |
Agastache pallidiflora | Mountain Giant Hyssop | |
Agave univittata | Thorncrest Century Plant Maguey Mezortillo | |
Allium acuminatum | Tapertip Onion | |
Aletris bracteata | Bracted Colicroot Bracted Unicorn Root Bahamian Unicorn Root White Colicroot | |
Allium canadense var. canadense | Meadow Garlic Wild Onion Canada Onion | |
Allium cernuum | Nodding Onion | |
Allium crispum | Crinkled Onion | |
Allium drummondii | Drummond's Onion Wild Garlic Drummond Wild Onion | |
Alophia drummondii | Propeller Flower Purple Pleat-leaf Pinewoods Lily Prairie Iris Pleatleaf Iris | |
Aletris farinosa | White Colicroot Colic Root Unicorn Root | |
Allium falcifolium | Scytheleaf Onion Scythe-leaf Onion Sickle-leaf Onion | |
Allium macropetalum | Largeflower Onion Large-petal Onion Desert Onion Desert Onion Lily | |
Allium stellatum | Autumn Onion Prairie Onion | |
Alisma subcordatum | American Water Plantain | |
Allium textile | Textile Onion | |
Allium tricoccum | Wild Leek Ramp | |
Allium unifolium | Oneleaf Onion | |
Allium validum | Pacific Onion Tall Swamp Onion Swamp Onion | |
Ambrosia artemisiifolia | Annual Ragweed Short Ragweed | |
Amsonia ciliata | Fringed Bluestar Bluestar Texas Bluestar | |
Amsonia ciliata var. texana | Texas Bluestar | |
Amianthium muscitoxicum | Fly Poison Crow Poison | |
Amaranthus scleropoides | Bonebract Amaranth | |
Amblyolepis setigera | Huisache Daisy Butterfly Daisy Honey Daisy | |
Amoreuxia wrightii | Wright's Yellowshow Yellow-show | |
Angelica ampla | Giant Angelica | |
Angelica atropurpurea | Purplestem Angelica | |
Androstephium breviflorum | Pink Funnel Lily Smallflower Androstephium Sand Lily | |
Anemopsis californica | Yerba Mansa Yerba-mansa Lizard Tail | |
Anemone canadensis | Canadian Anemone Round-leaf Thimbleweed Canada Anemone Windflower Meadow Anemone | |
Anemone cylindrica | Candle Anemone Long-headed Thimbleweed Longhead Thimbleweed Thimbleweed | |
Antennaria howellii | Howell's Pussytoes | |
Antennaria howellii ssp. canadensis | Canadian Pussytoes | |
Antennaria howellii ssp. neodioica | Howell's Pussytoes | |
Antennaria howellii ssp. petaloidea | Small Pussytoes | |
Antennaria lanata | Woolly Pussytoes | |
Anaphalis margaritacea | Western Pearly Everlasting Pearly-everlasting | |
Anemone multifida | Pacific Anemone Red Windflower Early Thimbleweed Cut-leaf Anemone | |
Antennaria neglecta | Field Pussytoes Prairie Everlasting | |
Antennaria plantaginifolia | Woman's Tobacco Ladies' Tobacco Everlasting Mouse Ear Plantain-leaf Pussytoes | |
Anemone quinquefolia | Wood Anemone Nightcaps Windflower | |
Antennaria rosea | Rosy Pussytoes | |
Antennaria rosea ssp. pulvinata | Pulvinate Pussytoes | |
Anemone virginiana | Tall Thimbleweed Thimbleweed Tall Anemone | |
Apocynum androsaemifolium | Spreading Dogbane Bitterroot Flytrap Dogbane | |
Apocynum cannabinum | Indian Hemp Prairie Dogbane Hemp Dogbane Dogbane | |
Aphanostephus riddellii | Riddell's Dozedaisy Lazy Daisy | |
Aphanostephus skirrhobasis | Lazy Daisy Arkansas Lazy Daisy Arkansas Doze-daisy | |
Aquilegia brevistyla | Smallflower Columbine | |
Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern Red Columbine Wild Red Columbine | |
Aquilegia chrysantha | Golden Columbine Yellow Columbine Southwestern Yellow Columbine | |
Aquilegia chrysantha var. chaplinei | Chaplin's Yellow Columbine Chaplin's Golden Columbine Chaplin's Columbine Chapline Columbine Guadalupe Mountain Columbine | |
Aquilegia coerulea | Colorado Blue Columbine Rocky Mountain Columbine | |
Aquilegia eximia | Van Houtte's Columbine Serpentine Columbine | |
Aquilegia flavescens | Yellow Mountain Columbine Yellow Columbine Golden Columbine | |
Aquilegia flavescens var. rubicunda | Link Trail Columbine | |
Aquilegia formosa | Western Columbine Crimson Columbine Scarlet Columbine Red Columbine | |
Aquilegia jonesii | Jones' Columbine Blue Limestone Columbine | |
Aquilegia micrantha | Mancos Columbine | |
Aquilegia pubescens | Sierra Columbine Sierran Columbine | |
Aquilegia triternata | Chiricahua Mountain Columbine | |
Arnica acaulis | Common Leopardbane | |
Argemone aenea | Golden Pricklypoppy Golden Prickly Poppy | |
Argemone albiflora | Bluestem Pricklypoppy White Pricklypoppy White Prickly Poppy | |
Argemone albiflora ssp. texana | Texas Bluestem Pricklypoppy Bluestem Pricklypoppy White Pricklypoppy White Prickly Poppy | |
Arnica amplexicaulis | Clasping Arnica | |
Arnica angustifolia | Narrowleaf Arnica Alpine Arnica | |
Argentina anserina | Silverweed Cinquefoil Common Silverweed Silverweed Goosefoot | |
Argemone aurantiaca | Texas Pricklypoppy Texas Prickly Poppy | |
Arenaria benthamii | Hilly Sandwort | |
Argemone chisosensis | Chisos Mountain Prickly Poppy Pink Prickly Poppy | |
Arnica chamissonis | Chamisso Arnica | |
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