Pollinator specific plants. Source: BWSR Pollinator Toolbox
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Spring Summer Fall

Alumroot
American Basswood*
American Wild Plum*
Black Chokeberry
Broad-leaf Arrowhead
Blanketflower
Bloodroot^
Buttercups
Canada Anemone
Cherries*
Columbine^
Common Strawberry
Dogwoods
Dutchman’s Breeches*^
Elderberry
Field Blue-eyed
Grass Golden Alexander*
Hoary Puccoon Juneberries*
Large Flowered Bellwort^
Long-headed Thimbleweed
Lowbush Blueberry
Red Maple^
Large-Flowered Penstemon*
Nannyberry
Prairie Milk Vetch
Prairie Phlox
Prairie Smoke
Rue Anemone*
Solomon’s Seal
Spiderwort
Trillium Violets^
Virginia bluebells^
Virginia Waterleaf*^
White Baneberry^
Wild Lupine*
Wild Petunia
Willows (Salix sp.)

Angelica Bedstaws (Galium sp.)
Blazing Stars* (Liatris sp.)
Blue Lobelia*
Blue Vervain
Bottle Gentian
Bush Clovers
Buttonbush
Canada Anemone
Canada Milkvetch
Canada Tick Trefoil
Coreopsis*
Cow Parsnip
Culver’s Root*
Cup Plant*
Dogbane*
Dogwoods
Evening Primrose
False Indigo
False Sunflower*
Giant Hyssop*
Grass-leaved Goldenrod*
Harebell*
Hedge Nettle
Hoary Vervain*
Ironweed
Jewelweed
Joe-Pye Weed*
Large-leaved Aster^
Leadplant
Milkweeds*(Asclepias sp.)
Narrow Leaf Coneflower*
Native Loosestrifes
Native Thistles*
New Jersey Tea
Ninebark*
Obedient Plant*
Partridge Pea
Prairie Cinquefoil
Purple Prairie Clover*
Prairie Coneflower
Prairie Turnip
Prairie Wild Onion
Raspberries/Blackberries*
Smooth Sumac
Spotted Bee Balm
Snowberry/Wolfberry
Turtlehead
Virginia Mountain Mint*
Waterlilies
White Meadowsweet
Wild Bergamot*
Wild Indigo
Wild Iris
Wild Quinine*
Wild Mint
Smooth Wild Rose*
Yarrow

American Vetch
Annual Sunflower*
Black Eyed Susan Boneset*
Bugleweeds (Lycopus sp.)
Chickweeds Frost Aster*
Gentians*
Grass-leaved Goldenrod*
Maximilian’s Sunflower*
New England Aster*
Nodding Bur-Marigold*
Showy Goldenrod*
Sneezeweed*
Stiff Goldenrod*
Virginia Mountain Mint*
hite Snakeroot^
Zig Zag Goldenrod*^

*High value for Pollinator Species
^Shade-tolerant species