Plant for the pollinators

Many plants need the help of pollinators to produce their fruit.

Examples: Squash, Melons, Apples

The seeds contained in the fruit ensures the plants future generations.

Who are the pollinators?

Butterflies, Bats, Hummingbirds and Bees

The pollinators are faced with many threats:

Loss of Habitat

Pollution

Climate change

How Can You Help?

Use native plants

Provide a source of water in your yard or garden

Avoid pesticides

Choose plants that the pollinators like

Full sun plants the pollinators like:

Black-eyed Susan Rudbeckia

Anemone

Hyssop

Goldenrod

Milkweed

Coneflower or Echinacea

Bee Balm

Mexican Sunflower or Tithonian

Sunflower

Clover

Coreopsis

Butterfly weed

Dianthus

Asters

Salvia (especially blue)

Prairie Phlox

Zinnia

Joe Pye Weed

Creeping Thyme

Wild Bergamot

Wild Blue Indigo

Yarrow

Ice Plant

Autumn Fire Sedum

Rose Swamp Milkweed

Blue Blazes Agastache

Native Golden Rod

English Lavender

Native Blueberries

Shade loving plants the pollinators like

Wild Geranium

Blood Root

Wild Ginger

Bishop's Cap

Wild Lupines

Trout Lily

St John's wort

Woodland Phlox

False Solomon Seal

Jacob's ladder

Common Iron weed