Create a Bee-Friendly Garden

According to the USDA Natural Resources Conversation Service, the following is a list of pollinator-friendly plants for you to add to your garden: 

Purple Giant Hyssop 
Indian Hemp 
Swamp Milkweed 
Common Milkweed 
Butterfly Milkweed
False White Indigo 
Blue False Indigo 
Wild Indigo 
Partridge Pea
White Turtlehead
Lanceleaf Coreopsis
Plains Coreopsis 
Flat Top White Aster 
Purple Coneflower 
Spotted Joe Pyeweed 
Boneset 
Big Leaf Aster 
Grass-leaved Goldenrod 
Common Sneezeweed 
Ashy Sunflower
Oxeye Sunflower 
Round-headed Lespedeza 
Tall Blazing Star 
Marsh Blazing Star 
Perennial Blue Flax 
Cardinal Flower 
Great Blue Lobelia 
Allegheny Monkey Flower 
Wild Bergamot 
Purple Bergamot  
Spotted Bee Balm 
Evening Primrose 
Tall White Beardtongue 
Hairy Beardtongue 
Virginia Mountain Mint 
Black eyed Susan 
Greyheaded Coneflower 
Wild Senna • 
Bluestem Goldenrod 
Early Goldenrod
Gray Goldenrod 
Rough leaved Goldenrod 
Showy Goldenrod 
Smooth Blue Aster 
Calico Aster 
New England Aster 
New York Aster  
Zigzag Aster 
Ohio Spiderwort  
Blue Vervain 
Hoary Vervain  
White Vervain 
Wingstem 
New York Ironweed 
Culver's Root 
Golden Alexanders

You can find out more about all of these plants and the pollinators they help by visiting this site

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