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Salvia azurea (Blue Sage) is a beautiful blue flowering sage, though watch the hardiness zone(!). Bloom time can be extended by removing spent blooms if plants in moist soil.

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Salvia azurea (Blue Sage)

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Panicum virgatum 'Shenandoah' (Red Switchgrass)

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Allium cernuum (Nodding Onion) Allium cernuum, Nodding Onion, produces nodding clusters of downward facing pink umbels and sword-like foliage, a striking addition to a naturalizing garden.

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Allium cernuum (Nodding Onion)

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Wreath Goldenrod (Solidago caesia)

Echinacea pallida, Pale Purple Coneflower, bears striking narrow drooping petals of long-lasting flowers, that will reseed if allowed.

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Echinacea pallida (Pale Purple Coneflower)

Liatris aspera (Rough Blazing Star) provides long spikes of lavender powder puffs covered with butterflies, birds and bees for the late season.

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Liatris aspera (Rough Blazing Star)

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Erigeron pulchellus 'Lynnhaven Carpet' Robin's Plantain

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Liatris spicata (Blazing Star) is a fine garden spike flower providing high value late season nectar for bees, butterflies and hummingbird.

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Liatris spicata (Blazing Star)

Symphyotrichum ericoides (Heath Aster) is a nice, compact busy aster with stiff heath-like leaves and a profusion of white delicate flowers.

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Symphyotrichum ericoides (Heath Aster)

In the wild Rudbeckia laciniata (Green-Headed Coneflower) can get quite tall but in the garden setting, tends to maintain 3'-4'. Nice for late flowering in a naturalizing garden setting.

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Rudbeckia laciniata (Green-Headed Coneflower)

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Solidago caesia (Blue-Stemmed Goldenrod) native plant in bloom

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Solidago caesia (Blue-Stemmed Goldenrod)

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Doellingeria umbellata (Flat-Topped Aster)

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Penstemon digitalis (Smooth White Beardtongue) is a clump-forming native perennial, a mainstay of a pollinator garden, providing some critical early season nectar and pollen. Beardtongue attracts lots of butterflies and hummingbirds.

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Penstemon digitalis (Smooth White Beardtongue)

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Cleome [Peritoma] serrulata (Rocky Mountain Beeplant) is a showy native, reseeding annual, valuable in the naturalized pollinator garden.

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Cleome [Peritoma] serrulata (Rocky Mountain Beeplant)

Anaphalis margaritacea, Pearly Everlasting, is an upright native plant that can grow somewhat aggressively to a clumping form displaying beautiful silver-gray foliage with fluffy white globular flowers sporting yellow center stamens.

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Anaphalis margaritacea (Pearly Everlasting)

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Deschampsia caespitosa (Tufted Hair Grass)

Fragaria virginiana (Wild Strawberry). Finding a wild strawberry is such a treat and the plant will spread through runners throughout your pollinator garden and serve as a very suitable ground cover.

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Fragaria virginiana (Wild Strawberry) available as singles or tray of plugs for ground cover

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Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum)

Attractive, lightly blue-hued foliage of Solidago caesia (Blue-stemmed Goldenrod) grown in quart-sized pots

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Solidago caesia (Blue-stemmed Goldenrod) Unity Grown

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Thalictrum pubescens (Tall Meadow Rue)

Asclepias syriaca (Common Milkweed) is very important as a host plant for our beloved Monarch butterfly. Plant this in an area where you can let it grow wild and reseed.

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Asclepias syriaca (Common Milkweed)

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Oenothera biennis (Evening Primrose)

Helenium autumnale (Sneezeweed) is a clump forming large, statuesque perennial attractive to bees and butterflies. Late valuable flowers for pollinators. May need staking.

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Helenium autumnale (Sneezeweed)

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Clematis virginiana (Woodbine, Virgin's Bower)

Viola sororia (Common Blue Violet), ground cover for pollinator gardens

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Viola sororia (Common Blue Violet) available as singles or tray of plugs for ground cover.

Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem) is the dominant grass of the prairie yet native to the New York/New England states and provides great wildlife value.

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Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem)

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Hypericum prolificum (Shrubby Saint Johnswort) Shrubs are REALLY small when shipped.

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Chelone glabra (Turtle’s Head) is a stiff upright native with snapdragon-like flowers with high pollinator value.

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Chelone glabra (Turtle's Head)

Polemonium reptans (Jacob's Ladder) as ground cover in pollinator gardens.

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Polemonium reptans (Jacob's Ladder)

Symphyotrichum novi-belgii (New York Aster) is a popular wildflower great for gardens and meadows offering late season violet flowers highly valued by pollinators.

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Symphyotrichum novi-belgii (New York Aster)

Eutrochium maculatum (Spotted Joe Pye Weed) is a native Vermont plant offering garden beauty and high pollinator value.

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Eutrochium maculatum (Spotted Joe-Pye Weed)

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Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum)

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Geum rivale (Water Avens)

Coreopsis lanceolata (Lanceleaf Coreopsis) is a garden favorite available in many cultivars, but for the pollinators likely best to stick with the true native for most attraction and this will reseed freely to make up for the short-life tendency; hence best for naturalizing.

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Coreopsis lanceolata (Lanceleaf Coreopsis)

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Verbena stricta (Hoary Verbena) is a common clump-forming meadow plant that will self-seeds to form scattered colonies topped with long-blooming pencil thin blue-purple panicles.

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Verbena stricta (Hoary Verbena)

Schizachyrium scoparium (Little Bluestem) is an important native grass for wildlife that is beautiful in meadow plantings in mass, reseeds somewhat freely.

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Schizachyrium scoparium (Little Bluestem)

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Solidago caesia / Bluestem Goldenrod

Monarda didyma (Beebalm) provides a great splash of red in the garden, special value to many pollinators. Does spread aggressively, so put where you want a lot of it.

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Monarda didyma (Bee Balm)

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Prunella vulgaris ssp lanceolata (Lance Self-Heal) available as singles or tray of plugs for ground cover

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Campanula rotundifolia (Bluebell Bellflower) is a diminutive sweet low-growing wildflower that is not quite aggressive enough to serve as a weed-suppressing ground cover, but nice to add to your lawn or pollinator garden in masse.

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Campanula rotundifolia (Bluebell Bellflower)

Solidago speciosa (Showy Goldenrod) is of special value to bees and butterflies. This is the showiest of the goldenrods but still spreads somewhat aggressively through rhizomes and self-seeding, so carefully watch in your naturalizing garden.

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Solidago speciosa (Showy Goldenrod)

Symphyotrichum laeve, Smooth Aster, is a popular native Aster providing purple flowers with distinctly yellow center on unbranched stems, attracting a plethora of butterflies.

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Symphyotrichum laeve (Smooth Aster)

Zizia aurea (Golden Zizia or Golden Alexander) for naturalizing pollinator garden

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Zizia aurea (Golden Zizia or Golden Alexander)

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Erigeron pulchellus 'Lynhaven Carpet' - Lynhaven Carpet Robin's Plantain

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Cephalanthus occidentalis (Buttonbush) Shrubs are REALLY small when shipped.

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Mimulus ringens (Monkey Flower)

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Monarda fistulosa (Wild Bergamot) is a long-lasting butterfly-ladened wildflower of very high pollinator value with plentiful flowers and aromatic foliage.

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Monarda fistulosa (Wild Bergamot)

Eryngium yuccifolium, Rattlesnake Master, is an excellent pollinator and beneficial insect attractor with sword-shaped leaves and long lasting, thistle-like flower heads. Photo by Sesamehoneytart, on Wikipedia

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Eryngium yuccifolium (Rattlesnake Master)

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Pycnanthemum tenuifolium (Slender Mountain Mint) is a pollinator magnet for bees and butterflies. Will naturalize slowly in colder climates, so cautiously in the garden.

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Pycnanthemum tenuifolium (Slender Mountain Mint)

Gaillardia pulchella, Indian Blanket, is a showy, self-seeding annual with large daisy-like, red flowers lasting the whole summer, attracting lost of bumblebees. Leave the flower-heads to encourage reseeding and feeding the birds.

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Gaillardia pulchella (Indian Blanket)

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Verbena hastata (Blue Vervain)

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Thermopsis villosa (Carolina Bushpea)

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Aquilegia canadensis (Canada Columbine) an elegant, though often short-lived wildflower providing beauty and habitat for pollinators. Worth the effort for a few beautiful years.

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Aquilegia canadensis (Canada Columbine)

Agastache foeniculum (Anise Hyssop) One of the best for supporting pollinators while providing a beautiful late season flower show with anise-scented foliage.

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Agastache foeniculum (Anise Hyssop)

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Scutellaria lateriflora (Mad-Dog Scullcap)

Danthonia spicata, Poverty Oat Grass is a nice low growing, shade tolerant bunch grass with curling aging leaves, often a pioneer plant after wildfires, that offers bird seed and it hosts butterfly larvae. Is nice in light shade gardens.

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Danthonia spicata (Poverty Oat Grass) available as singles or tray of plugs for ground cover

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Erigeron pulchellus, Robin's Plantain, will self-seed and spread through stoloniferous roots to form a pleasing ground cover with aster-like flowers.

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Erigeron pulchellus (Robin's Plantain)

Eupatorium perfoliatum (Boneset) may look like like a roadside weed to us, but the bees, butterflies and birds it brings will be worth it!

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Eupatorium perfoliatum (Boneset)

Baptisia australis (Blue Wild Indigo) is a garden beauty with long-lasting violet spikes with high value to pollinators. Cherokee used for blue dye. Some toxicity if ingested-tastes badly.

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Baptisia australis (Blue Wild Indigo)

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Campanula x 'Viking' (Bellflower)

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Solidago caesia (Blue-Stemmed Goldenrod) is a non-aggressive adaptable goldenrod forming clumps as a nice addition to a pollinator garden as a late nectar source.

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Solidago caesia (Blue-Stemmed Goldenrod)

Echinacea purpurea (Purple Coneflower) is well-known and loved, with a long-blooming season, a bit short-lived, but so nice, worth replanting every so many years

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Echinacea purpurea (Purple Coneflower)

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Amsonia tabernaemontana (Eastern Bluestar) A beautiful and versatile perennial that, like Baptisia australis, gives a shrub-like appearance and is a nice addition to any garden setting. Though not particularly attractive to bees, Bluestar draws in many butterflies and moths.

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Amsonia tabernaemontana (Eastern Bluestar)

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Panicum virgatum 'Shenandoah' Red Switchgrass

Rudbeckia hirta (Black-Eyed Susan) is a beloved short-lived but showy long-flowering perennial that readily reseeds.

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Rudbeckia hirta (Black-Eyed Susan)

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Achillea millefolium (Yarrow)

Symphyotrichum novae-angliae (New England Aster) provides great late flowers for bees, butterflies and as a larval host for the Crescent Butterfly. Nice in the back of any garden.

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Symphyotrichum novae-angliae (New England Aster)

utrochium purpureum (Sweet Joe-Pye Weed) is nice in open woodlands and naturalizing areas. Great value to bees and butterflies.

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Eutrochium purpureum (Sweet Joe-Pye Weed)

Helianthus maximiliani (Maximiliani Sunflower) for naturalizing pollinator garden.

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Helianthus maximiliani (Maximilian Sunflower)

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Solidago caesia - Blue Stemmed Goldenrod

Tradescantia ohiensis (Ohio Spiderwort) is an excellent multi-stemmed perennial with attractive morning-flowers over a long season.

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Tradescantia ohiensis (Ohio Spiderwort)

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