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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.

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Agastache scrophulariifoliaPurple Giant Hyssop
Purple Giant-hyssop
Amorpha canescensLeadplant
Leadplant Amorpha
Prairie Shoestring
Asclepias tuberosaButterflyweed
Butterfly Weed
Butterfly Milkweed
Orange Milkweed
Pleurisy Root
Chigger Flower
Chiggerweed
Ceanothus americanusNew Jersey Tea
Redroot
Cirsium discolorField Thistle
Coreopsis lanceolataLanceleaf Coreopsis
Lance-leaved Coreopsis
Lanceleaf Tickseed
Sand Coreopsis
Crataegus crus-galliCockspur Hawthorn
Cockspur Thorn
Newcastle Hawthorn
Newcastle Thorn
Hog Apple
Dalea purpureaPurple Prairie Clover
Echinacea purpureaEastern Purple Coneflower
Purple Coneflower
Eryngium yuccifoliumRattlesnake Master
Button Eryngo
Button Snakeroot
Beargrass
Bear's Grass
Eutrochium purpureumPurple Joepyeweed
Sweet-scented Joepyeweed
Sweet Joepyeweed
Gentiana andrewsiiClosed Bottle Gentian
Closed Gentian
Bottle Gentian
Liatris pycnostachyaPrairie 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 siphiliticaGreat Blue Lobelia
Lupinus perennisSundial Lupine
Wild Lupine
Monarda fistulosaWild Bergamot
Beebalm
Monarda punctataSpotted Beebalm
Spotted Horsemint
Horsemint
Penstemon digitalisMississippi Penstemon
Mississippi Beardtongue
Smooth White Penstemon
Smooth White Beardtongue
Talus Slope Penstemon
Talus Slope Beardtongue
Foxglove Penstemon
Foxglove Beardtongue
Pycnanthemum virginianumVirginia Mountain Mint
Silphium perfoliatumCup Plant
Indian Cup
Solidago speciosaShowy Goldenrod
Noble Goldenrod
Symphyotrichum lateriflorumCalico Aster
Symphyotrichum novae-angliaeNew England Aster
New England American-aster
Verbesina alternifoliaWingstem
Yellow Ironweed
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