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Midwest 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 – Midwest Region for additional information. The pollinator resources found on this page support habitat projects in Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana. This information provided by the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation.

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Agastache nepetoidesYellow Giant Hyssop
Amorpha canescensLeadplant
Leadplant Amorpha
Prairie Shoestring
Asclepias incarnataSwamp Milkweed
Pink Milkweed
Baptisia bracteataLongbract Wild Indigo
Cephalanthus occidentalisCommon Buttonbush
Buttonbush
Button Willow
Honey Bells
Honeybells
Honey Balls
Honeyballs
Button-bush
Cirsium discolorField Thistle
Crataegus crus-galliCockspur Hawthorn
Cockspur Thorn
Newcastle Hawthorn
Newcastle Thorn
Hog Apple
Dalea purpureaPurple Prairie Clover
Echinacea pallidaPale Purple Coneflower
Pale Coneflower
Eryngium yuccifoliumRattlesnake Master
Button Eryngo
Button Snakeroot
Beargrass
Bear's Grass
Geranium maculatumSpotted Geranium
Wild Geranium
Cranesbill
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
Monarda fistulosaWild Bergamot
Beebalm
Penstemon digitalisMississippi Penstemon
Mississippi Beardtongue
Smooth White Penstemon
Smooth White Beardtongue
Talus Slope Penstemon
Talus Slope Beardtongue
Foxglove Penstemon
Foxglove Beardtongue
Physocarpus opulifoliusCommon Ninebark
Atlantic Ninebark
Pycnanthemum tenuifoliumNarrowleaf Mountain Mint
Slender Mountain Mint
Common Horsemint
Salix humilisPrairie Willow
Solidago nemoralisGray Goldenrod
Prairie Goldenrod
Oldfield Goldenrod
Grayleaf Goldenrod
Gray-leaved Goldenrod
Dyersweed Goldenrod
Dwarf Goldenrod
Field Goldenrod
Solidago speciosaShowy Goldenrod
Noble Goldenrod
Symphyotrichum laeveSmooth Blue Aster
Verbesina alternifoliaWingstem
Yellow Ironweed
Vernonia missuricaMissouri Ironweed
Veronicastrum virginicumCulver's Root
Zizia aureaGolden Zizia
Golden Alexanders
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