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Native Wildflowers for Pollinators These plant species provide nectar for a variety of pollinators—native bees, flower flies, butterflies, and hummingbirds. Many species are also larval host plants for butterflies. Best suited for sunny locations, plant some of these wildflowers in your Schoolyard Habitat ® to ensure a full season of blooms for pollinators. SPRING BLOOMS Wild Geranium Geranium maculatum LATE SPRING TO SUMMER BLOOMS Wild Columbine Aquilegia canadensis Golden Alexanders Zizia aurea Eastern Bluestar Amsonia tabernaemontana False Blue Indigo Baptisia australis Sundial Lupine Lupinus perennis Beardtongue Penstemon digitalis Nodding Onion Allium cernuum Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea

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Page 1: Native Wildflowers for Pollinators - GrowNYC...Native Wildflowers for Pollinators These plant species provide nectar for a variety of pollinators—native bees, flower flies, butterflies,

Native Wildflowers for

Pollinators These plant species provide nectar for a variety of pollinators—native bees, flower flies, butterflies, and hummingbirds. Many species are also larval host plants for butterflies. Best suited for sunny locations, plant some of these wildflowers in your Schoolyard Habitat® to ensure a full season of blooms for pollinators.

SPRIN

G B

LOO

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Wild Geranium

Geranium maculatum

LATE SPRIN

G TO

SUM

MER

BLO

OM

S

Wild Columbine

Aquilegia canadensis

Golden Alexanders

Zizia aurea

Eastern Bluestar

Amsonia tabernaemontana

False Blue Indigo

Baptisia australis

Sundial Lupine

Lupinus perennis

Beardtongue

Penstemon digitalis

Nodding Onion

Allium cernuum

Purple Coneflower

Echinacea purpurea

Page 2: Native Wildflowers for Pollinators - GrowNYC...Native Wildflowers for Pollinators These plant species provide nectar for a variety of pollinators—native bees, flower flies, butterflies,

Garden Phlox

Phlox paniculata

Pearly Everlasting

Anaphalis margaritacea

Tickseed

Coreopsis tripteris

Mountain Mint

Pycnanthemum muticum

Anise Hyssop

Agastache foeniculum

Black-eyed Susan

Rudbeckia fulgida

Blue Mistflower

Conoclinium coelestinum

Goldenrods

Solidago spp. Asters

Aster or Symphyotrichum spp.

Wild Bergamot

Monarda fistulosa

Butterfly Milkweed

Asclepias tuberosa

Swamp Milkweed

Asclepias incarnata

SUM

MER

BLO

OM

S FALL B

LOO

MS