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 |
Asclepias oenotheroides | Zizotes Milkweed Hierba De Zizotes Side-cluster Milkweed Longhorn Milkweed Primrose Milkweed Lindheimer's Milkweed | |
Asclepias ovalifolia | Oval-leaf Milkweed Dwarf Milkweed | |
Asclepias perennis | White Swamp Milkweed Aquatic Milkweed | |
Astragalus plattensis | Platte River Milkvetch | |
Astragalus pomonensis | Pomona Milkvetch | |
Asyneuma prenanthoides | California Harebell Nodding Harebell | |
Asclepias purpurascens | Purple Milkweed | |
Asclepias quadrifolia | Fourleaf Milkweed | |
Asclepias rubra | Red Milkweed Tall Pink Bog Milkweed | |
Asclepias speciosa | Showy Milkweed | |
Asclepias stenophylla | Slimleaf Milkweed Narrowleaf Milkweed Narrowleaf Green Milkweed | |
Asclepias subulata | Rush Milkweed Desert Milkweed Ajamete | |
Asclepias sullivantii | Prairie Milkweed Sullivant's Milkweed Smooth Milkweed | |
Asclepias syriaca | Common Milkweed | |
Asclepias texana | Texas Milkweed White Milkweed | |
Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly Weed Butterfly Milkweed Orange Milkweed Pleurisy Root Chigger Flower Chiggerweed | |
Asclepias variegata | Redring Milkweed White-flowered Milkweed | |
Asclepias verticillata | Whorled Milkweed Eastern Whorled Milkweed | |
Asclepias viridiflora | Green Comet Milkweed Green-flowered Milkweed Green Milkweed Wand Milkweed | |
Asclepias viridis | Green Milkweed Spider Milkweed | |
Atriplex subspicata | Saline Saltbush | |
Aureolaria grandiflora | Largeflower Yellow False Foxglove False Foxglove | |
Aureolaria virginica | Downy Yellow False Foxglove Downy False Foxglove | |
Baptisia alba | White Wild Indigo White Baptisia | |
Baptisia alba var. macrophylla | Largeleaf Wild Indigo White Wild Indigo | |
Baptisia australis | Blue Wild Indigo Wild Blue Indigo Blue False Indigo | |
Baptisia australis var. minor | Blue Wild Indigo | |
Baptisia bracteata | Longbract Wild Indigo | |
Baptisia bracteata var. leucophaea | Longbract Wild Indigo Cream False Indigo Plains Wild Indigo Cream Wild Indigo Large-bracted Wild Indigo | |
Baptisia cinerea | Grayhairy Wild Indigo | |
Balsamorhiza deltoidea | Deltoid Balsamroot | |
Balsamorhiza hookeri | Hooker's Balsamroot Hairy Balsamroot | |
Bacopa monnieri | Herb-of-grace Water Hyssop Coastal Water-hyssop | |
Baileya multiradiata | Desert Marigold Showy Desert Marigold Paper Daisy Desert Baileya | |
Balsamorhiza sagittata | Arrowleaf Balsamroot Arrow-leaf Balsamroot | |
Baptisia tinctoria | Horseflyweed Yellow Wild Indigo | |
Berlandiera betonicifolia | Texas Greeneyes Broochflower | |
Besseya bullii | Bull's Coraldrops Kitten Tails Northern Kittentail | |
Berlandiera lyrata | Chocolate Daisy Chocolate Flower Lyreleaf Greeneyes Green-eyed Lyre Leaf | |
Berlandiera pumila | Soft Greeneyes | |
Berlandiera subacaulis | Florida Greeneyes Common Greeneyes | |
Bidens laevis | Smooth Beggartick Smooth Bidens Smooth Bur Marigold Larger Bur Marigold | |
Blephilia ciliata | Downy Pagoda-plant Sunny Woodmint Ohio Horsemint | |
Boehmeria cylindrica | Smallspike False Nettle Bog Hemp | |
Bouchetia erecta | Erect Bouchetia Painted-tongue Paintedtongue Painted Tongue | |
Bouchea linifolia | Groovestem Bouchea Flaxleaf Bouchea | |
Boykinia richardsonii | Richardson's Brookfoam Alaska Boykinia Bear Flower | |
Boykinia rotundifolia | Roundleaf Brookfoam | |
Brodiaea coronaria | Crown Brodiaea Harvest Brodiaea | |
Brickellia cylindracea | Gravel-bar Brickellbush | |
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