Plant List for Pollinators

Below is a list of plants used for the MGC Habitat for Pollinators Garden at Audubon Sharon
Perennials

Agastache (anise hyssop)
Asclepsias (milkweed)
  1.  incarnata (swamp) 
  2.  tuberosa  (lots of nectar) orange or yellow flowers
  3.  syriaca (common) 
Aster
Coreopsis verticillata
Echinacea purpurea (coneflower)
Eupatorium
  1. fisulosum( Joe Pye weed) 
  2. perfolatum (boneset) 
Heliopsis
Liatris spicaya (blazing star)
Lobelia
  1. cardinalis
  2. siphilitica (great blue lobelia)
Mondara
  1. fistulosa (wild bee balm) 
  2. didyma (bee balm) small variety
Penstemon 
Phlox
Pycnanthemum virginianum (American mountain mint) – 
Rudbeckia (grown as an annual, self-seeds, sometimes makes it through winter)
  1. triloba (brown-eyed Susan) 
  2. fulgida (black-eyed Susan)  
  3. laciniata 
Salvia nemorosa 
Soligago (goldenrod) canadensis 
Vernonia noveboracensis (New York Ironweed) 
​Annuals
Cosmos
Helianthus annuus (sunflower)
Pentas

Small Shrubs
Buddleia - have
Clethera alnifolia
Perovskia (Russian sage)
Vaccinium corymbosum (high bush blueberry) 

Host Plants
Anethum graveolens (dill) 
Foeniculum vulgare (fennel) 
Mentha spp. (mint) - have
Origanum vulgare (oregano)
Pentroselinum crispum (parsley) 
Need to make sure that the garden has:
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Asters
Echinacea
Liatris
Lobelia cardinalis
Perovskia atriplicifolia (Russian sage)
Phlox
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Keep in Mind

• Simple flower (double hides the pollen), old-fashioned not messed with
• Pollinators see differently then we do
  1. Butterflies and bees are attracted to the purple, blue spectrum
  2. Hummingbirds like tubular and red
• Massing of color attracts pollinators

Amsonia (blue star) short, early summer
Aruncus aethusifolius (dwarf)
Campanula glomerata ‘Joan Elliott’ dark, blue, June
Coreopsis lanceolata - yellow – summer
Cypripedium (lady’s slipper)
  1. kentuckiese – taller and later then others, June
  2. pubescens – yellow, May, hardiest
Euphorbia – yellow, short, May
Heliopsis – yellow, tall 4-5” July into August
Indigofera krilowii (false indigo) – pink, June into July
Leucanthemum maximum (shasta daisy) – July into August
Lobelia siphilitica ‘Big Blue’ August
Lychnis coronaria
Phlox decussate ‘David’ white, tall (4-5’), August
Physostegia ‘Pink Bouquet’ August into September
Also alliums and yellow iris

Dahlias – have all color and sizes and shapes – short ones that don’t need staking (ca 2’) are:  August to frost
  1.  ‘Pablo’ – yellow-pink
  2. ‘Papagaya’ – red with white tips

Self-seeded:
  1. Talinum short, flowers like coral bells – summer to frost
  2. Verbena bonariensis – 3’ tall, summer to frost

Growing ‘Ms. Mars’ sunflower 20-30” merlot to pink

Shrubs (may get too big)
  1. Sorbaroa sprbofolia (false spirea) ‘Sem’
  2. Spiraea japonica ‘Anthony Waterer’