Special Collections
Great Lakes 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 – Great Lakes Region for additional information. The pollinator resources found on this page support habitat projects in Ontario and northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York. This information provided by the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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| Agastache scrophulariifolia | Purple Giant Hyssop Purple Giant-hyssop | |
| Amorpha canescens | Leadplant Leadplant Amorpha Prairie Shoestring | |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly Weed Butterfly Milkweed Orange Milkweed Pleurisy Root Chigger Flower Chiggerweed | |
| Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey Tea Redroot | |
| Cirsium discolor | Field Thistle | |
| Coreopsis lanceolata | Lanceleaf Coreopsis Lance-leaved Coreopsis Lanceleaf Tickseed Sand Coreopsis | |
| Crataegus crus-galli | Cockspur Hawthorn Cockspur Thorn Newcastle Hawthorn Newcastle Thorn Hog Apple | |
| Dalea purpurea | Purple Prairie Clover | |
| Echinacea purpurea | Eastern Purple Coneflower Purple Coneflower | |
| Eryngium yuccifolium | Rattlesnake Master Button Eryngo Button Snakeroot Beargrass Bear's Grass | |
| Eutrochium purpureum | Purple Joepyeweed Sweet-scented Joepyeweed Sweet Joepyeweed | |
| Gentiana andrewsii | Closed Bottle Gentian Closed Gentian Bottle Gentian | |
| Liatris pycnostachya | Prairie Blazing Star Prairie Gayfeather Prairie Liatris Kansas Blazing Star Kansas Gayfeather Kansas Liatris Cat-tail Blazing Star Cat-tail Gayfeather Cat-tail Liatris Hairy Button-snakeroot | |
| Lobelia siphilitica | Great Blue Lobelia | |
| Lupinus perennis | Sundial Lupine Wild Lupine | |
| Monarda fistulosa | Wild Bergamot Beebalm | |
| Monarda punctata | Spotted Beebalm Spotted Horsemint Horsemint | |
| Penstemon digitalis | Mississippi Penstemon Mississippi Beardtongue Smooth White Penstemon Smooth White Beardtongue Talus Slope Penstemon Talus Slope Beardtongue Foxglove Penstemon Foxglove Beardtongue | |
| Pycnanthemum virginianum | Virginia Mountain Mint | |
| Silphium perfoliatum | Cup Plant Indian Cup | |
| Solidago speciosa | Showy Goldenrod Noble Goldenrod | |
| Symphyotrichum lateriflorum | Calico Aster | |
| Symphyotrichum novae-angliae | New England Aster New England American-aster | |
| Verbesina alternifolia | Wingstem Yellow Ironweed | |
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