The pollinator garden has plants that are attractive
to butterflies, bees and other pollinators. A variety
of plants were chosen to ensure that nectar and
pollen were available from early spring through
late fall. We also included caterpillar food plants
to ensure that butterflies had somewhere to lay
their eggs while plants with pale blooms that open
at night give food to night-flying moths.
Try growing pollinator plants like violets, asters,
coneflowers, wild roses, lupines, pearly everlasting,
milkweeds and evening primrose in your garden.
Name
Type
America Bittersweet
Pasture Rose
Button Bush
Showy Mountain Ash
Bearberry Honeysuckle/Twin Berry
New Jersey Tea
Red Osier Dogwood
Sand Cherry
Grey Dogwood
Savin Juniper
Eastern White Cedar
False blue Indigo
Blue Flag Iris
Fireweed
Wild Flax
Foxglove Beardtongue
Green Alumroot
Canada Lily
Wild Lupin
Purple Angelica
Obedient Plant
New-England Aster
Prairie Blazing Star
Purple Coneflower
Flat-Topped White Aster
White turtlehead
Grey-Headed Coneflower
Orange Coneflower
Thin-Leaved Coneflower
Wild Geranium
Golden Alexanders
Tall Coreopsis
Lanceleaf Coreopsis
Stiff Coreopsis
Sand Coreopsis
-
Rough Avens
Pasque Flower
Autumn Joy Stonecrop
Nodding Wild Onion
Pink Fleabane
Evening Primrose
Thimbleweed
Rough-stemmed Goldenrod
-
Rattlesnake Master
Field Pussytoes
Blue-Eyed Grass
Common Sundrops
Little Blue Stern Grass
Mosquito Grass
Prairie Dropseed
Canada Tick-Trefoil
Woodland Sunflower
Goldenrod
Bird’s Foot Violet
Pearly Everlasting
Tall Sunflower
Green-Headed Coneflower
Showy Sunflower
Common Milkweed
Dog Violet
V DS DS DS DS DS DS DS DS ES ES P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P - P P P P P P P P - P P P G G G P P P P P P P P P P P
Type
ET
Evergreen tree
ES
Evergreen shrub
DT
Deciduous tree
DS
Deciduous shrub
BE
Broadleaf Evergreen
V
Vine
P
Perennial
G
Grass
B
Bulb
Pollinators... From Flowers to Food to Our Future
In this educational unit, you will find classroom resources and activities to help your students understand the science and value of pollination, recognize the threats facing pollinators, and act in responsible ways for a healthy planet.
