Native Templates These were selected for their Sunny & Dry Garden for ability to withstand drought in sunny locations, and for their pollinator value.

Threadleaf Smooth Blue Hollow Purple Red Moss Mountain Mint* Coreopsis* Aster* Joe-Pye Coneflower* Chokeberry* Phlox (Pycnanthemum (Coreopsis (Aster (Eutrochium (Echinacea (Aronia (Phlox muticum) verticillata) laevis) fistulosum) purpurea) arbutifolia) subulata) The silvery The cheery This plant is You and the Coneflower is This tall, narrow This is a short are yellow flowers short (for an butterflies will easy to grow deciduous growing, front- extremely on delicate aster), growing love the tall- and its purple has red berries of-the-bed plant attractive to foliage last for two to three growing dusty blooms are for birds and with lots of butterflies, bees, months feet with long- purple popular with abundant spring color. Its and other beginning in July. lasting lavender clusters of this people and flowers that early blooms pollinators from Some native blue flowers “weed” in your pollinators. provide an attract bee flies, July through bees rely on that feed yard. This When it important food long-tongued September. A coreopsis and pollinator magnet reseeds, you’ll source for early- bees, small great spreader to provision their others late in also draws bees have plenty to emerging butterflies and with minty scent. nests. the season. and other insects. share. pollinators. skippers.

5 plants 9 plants 4 plants 8 plants 9 plants 1 plant 14 plants MM C SBA HJP CF RC MP

Bloom Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Times:

30 feet

* Deer- resilient, MM resists or withstands RC some HJP

browsing. 10 feet Featured Pollinator: Note: SBA This design is CF American Lady flexible based Vanessa virginiensis on available C American lady butterflies on space. To coneflowers, milkweed, and many make this other native . But they lay garden eggs mainly on pussytoes smaller, MP (Antennaria species), a lovely reduce the number of More Info on Bee City: groundcover. Caterpillars hide during the day in silky enclosures plants per https://livegreenhoward.com/land/pollinators/ species. they create from the silvery , coming out at night to feed. Alternates The following plant species can be alternately combined to create a pollinator garden in sunny, dry conditions. For more information about native plants and for selected species other pollinator resources, visit: livegreenhoward.com/land/pollinators/

MM C SBA HJP CF RC MP Mountain Threadleaf Smooth Blue Hollow Purple Red Moss Mint Coreopsis* Aster* Joe-Pye Coneflower* Chokeberry* Phlox Wild Bergamot* Bluestem Butterfly Foxglove Brown-eyed New Jersey Tea* Robin’s Monarda fistulosa Goldenrod* Milkweed* Beardtongue Susan* Ceanothus Plantain* Shrubby St. Solidago caesia Asclepias tuberosa Rudbeckia triloba americanus Erigeron pulchellus John’s wort* Oxeye Blazing Star Common Aromatic Aster* Winterberry Lyreleaf Sage* Hypericum sunflower Liatris spicata Milkweed* Symphyotrichum Holly Salvia lyrata prolificum Heliopsis Asclepias syriaca oblongifolium Ilex verticillata helianthoides

Why Plant Natives? How You Can Help Pollinators ENJOY A BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPE PROVIDE FOOD The many textures, colors and habits of native plants can be Plant a succession of native blooms of different shapes, sizes and colors from spring to combined in attractive designs. Choose a natural-looking or fall. Choose native species over when possible. more formal style. Plant densely, using native groundcovers as “green mulch,” leaving some bare soil for the 70 percent of native bees that nest in the ground. PRESERVE MARYLAND’S BIODIVERSITY Plant in drifts of 3 or more plants to be noticed by pollinators. Many bees provision their nests with pollen from native plants, and butterflies and moths eat native species at the larval stage. PROVIDE WATER SOURCES Birds, in turn, feed an abundance of these caterpillars to their Include mud-puddling areas for butterflies. (Refresh water often to deter mosquitoes.) young. Going native supports this whole food web. PROVIDE SHELTER IMPROVE WATER QUALITY AND REDUCE YOUR CARBON Add nesting sites for bees, caterpillars and others by leaving fallen leaves where FOOTPRINT possible and incorporating dead wood (stalks, logs, stumps) into the garden. Conventional often employ fertilizers, , SAFEGUARD POLLINATOR HABITAT supplemental water, and fossil-fuel-using machinery – resulting Control invasive plants, and avoid pesticides when possible. in poor soil health, erosion, and polluted stormwater runoff. Photo Credits: https://tinyurl.com/y9hvgu2n These plants were selected for their Sunny & Moist Garden for Pollinators ability to withstand moist conditions and for their pollinator value.

Common Butterfly Eastern Eastern Helen’s Blazing Blue-Eyed Obedient Plant Bluets* Milkweed* Columbine Redbud Flower* Star* Grass Physostegia Houstonia Asclepias Aquilegia Cercis Helenium Liatris Sisyrinchium virginiana caerulea tuberosa canadensis canadensis autumnale spicata angustifolium Easy to establish This low- Long-blooming, Striking red and An important This plant Rosy-purple This low growing and maintain, this growing plant deer-resistant yellow flowers early food blooms over a spiky flowers grass-like plant plant has blooms with plant, and larval bloom in late source for lengthy period, bloom in is a miniature snapdragon-like, delicate blue host to the spring, attracting pollinators, this summer to summer, member of the pink to lilac flowers in the monarch hummingbirds small tree is a autumn. Native attracting bees, iris . It is a flowers that spring. Flowers caterpillar. Its and insects. great substitute bees, butterflies, great substitute bloom throughout attract small vibrant orange Larval host to for non-native honeybees, hummingbird for liriope and summer, butterflies, little flowers are a columbine cherry trees. wasps, flies, moths and can form thick providing nectar carpenter bees, great nectar duskywing and Does well in full butterflies and hummingbirds. stands over for butterflies. and green source for bees spring azure sun to part beetles seek the time. metallic bees. and butterflies. butterfly. shade. nectar and pollen. OP 6 plants CB 40 plants BM 5 plants EC 5 plants ER 1 plant HF 6 plants BS 5 plants BEG 13 plants Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Bloom Times:

20 feet HF * Deer- resilient, resists or withstands some browsing. CB EC Featured Pollinator: BM Leafcutter Bee/Megachile

Note: ER 10 feet Bees in this family carry pollen on the This design is underside of their fuzzy abdomens flexible based on BS rather than their legs. They use their available space. large mouth parts to collect their To make this preferred nesting material—leaves! garden smaller, A handful of Megachile species are reduce the BEG specialists and feed only on a number of plants per OP particular of plants. Most use species. a variety of plants for nectar and pollen. Leaves from the redbud tree More Info on Bee City: make excellent nesting material. https://livegreenhoward.com/land/pollinators/ The following plant species can be alternately combined to create a pollinator Alternates garden in sunny, moist conditions. For more information about native plants for selected species and other pollinator resources, visit: livegreenhoward.com/land/pollinators/

OP CB BM EC ER HF BS BEG Obedient Common Butterfly Eastern Eastern Helen’s Blazing Blue Eyed Plant Bluets* Milkweed* Columbine Redbud Flower* Star* Grass Golden Ragwort* Plantain-leaved Swamp Sundrops Witch Hazel Coastal Plain Blue Wild Indigo* Tussock Sedge* Packera aurea Pussytoes Milkweed* Oenothera fruticosa Hamamelis Joe-Pye Baptisia australis Carex stricta Antennaria Blue Mistflower* Asclepias incarnata Foxglove virginiana Eutrochium dubium plantaginifolia Cardinal Flower Soft Rush Conoclinium Garden Phlox Beardtongue White Fringetree* Wild Bergamot* Lobelia cardinalis (Juncus effusus) coelestinum Green and Gold* Phlox paniculata Penstemon digitalis Chionanthus Monarda fistulosa Chrysogonum virginicus Monkey Flower virginianum Mimulus ringens

Why Plant Natives? How You Can Help Pollinators ENJOY A BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPE PROVIDE FOOD The many textures, colors and habits of native plants can be Plant a succession of native blooms of different shapes, sizes and colors from spring to combined in attractive designs. Choose a natural-looking or fall. Choose native species over cultivars when possible. more formal style. Plant densely, using native groundcovers as “green mulch,” leaving some bare soil for the 70 percent of native bees that nest in the ground. PRESERVE MARYLAND’S BIODIVERSITY Plant in drifts of 3 or more plants to be noticed by pollinators. Many bees provision their nests with pollen from native plants, and butterflies and moths eat native species at the larval stage. PROVIDE WATER SOURCES Birds, in turn, feed an abundance of these caterpillars to their Include mud-puddling areas for butterflies. (Refresh water often to deter mosquitoes.) young. Going native supports this whole food web. PROVIDE SHELTER IMPROVE WATER QUALITY AND REDUCE YOUR CARBON Add nesting and overwintering sites for cavity-nesting bees, caterpillars and others by FOOTPRINT leaving fallen leaves where possible and incorporating dead wood (stalks, logs, stumps). Conventional gardens often employ fertilizers, pesticides, SAFEGUARD POLLINATOR HABITAT supplemental water, and fossil-fuel-using machinery – resulting Control invasive plants, and avoid pesticides when possible. in poor soil health, erosion, and polluted stormwater runoff.

Photo Credits: https://tinyurl.com/y9hvgu2n These plants were selected for their ability Part Sun & Dry Garden for Pollinators to withstand drought in part-sun locations, and for their pollinator value.

New York Black-Eyed Coral Little Gray Sourwood Lyreleaf Sage* Ironweed* Susan* Bells* Bluestem* Goldenrod* Oxydendrum Salvia Vernonia Rudbeckia Heuchera Schizachyrium Solidago lyrata noveboracensis hirta americana scoparium nemoralis This native Lyreleaf sage is An adaptable This black-eyed A groundcover Valued for its This long- specimen tree adaptable to native with Susan blooms for part sun blue-green color, blooming has four-season varying deep purple like crazy, is conditions, coral it turns beautiful goldenrod interest and conditions. The flowers, easy to grow bells has shades of copper provides nectar grows slowly to blueish to ironweed grows and reseeds attractive and crimson after and pollen, 25' (average). lavender tubular to about four with abandon. foliage with airy first frost. supporting a Flowers are flowers attract feet in dry Feeds specialist flower panicles Caterpillars of diversity of attractive to hummingbirds conditions and bees and that draw bees several skippers pollinators late native bees. and insects in is a magnet for caterpillars of and feed on the in the season. Host plant for spring. Host to swallowtail wavy-lined hummingbirds. foliage. Songbirds some moth five butterfly and butterflies. emerald moths. eat the seeds. species. moth species.

5 plants 9 plants 9 plants 8 plants 6 plants 1 plant 14 plants NYI BES CB LBS GG S LLS

Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Bloom Times:

* Deer- 25 feet resilient, resists or withstands NYI LBS some browsing. S LBS

Note: BES 10 feet Featured Pollinator: This design is American flexible based Bombus americanus on available GG space. To make This threatened bumblebee species this garden CB visits ironweed, wild bergamot, smaller, LLS sunflowers, Joe Pye and others. reduce the Preferred nesting sites include open number of plants per fields with tall grasses but can also species. More Info on Bee City: be underground or even in https://livegreenhoward.com/land/pollinators/ . Alternates The following plant species can be alternately combined to create a pollinator garden in part-sun, dry conditions. For more information about native plants for selected species and other pollinator resources, visit: livegreenhoward.com/land/pollinators/

NYI BS CB LBS GG S LLS New York Black-Eyed Coral Little Bluestem* Gray Goldenrod* Sourwood Lyreleaf Sage* Ironweed* Susan* Bells* Woodland Sedge* Narrowleaf Sweetspire* Aromatic Aster* Spotted Joe-Pye Ohio Spiderwort Heath Aster* Carex blanda Mountainmint* Itea virginica Symphyotrichum Eutrochium Tradescantia Symphyotrichum Pycnanthemum Flowering oblongifolium Tufted Hairgrass* tenuifolium maculatum ohiensis ericoides Deschampsia Dogwood* Moss Phlox Purple Yellow Indigo* Robin’s Plantain* cespitosa Woodland Cornus florida Phlox subulata Coneflower* Baptisia tinctoria Erigeron pulchellus Sunflower Echinacea purpurea Helianthus divaricatus Why Plant Natives? How You Can Help Pollinators ENJOY A BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPE PROVIDE FOOD The many textures, colors and habits of native plants can be Plant a succession of native blooms of different shapes, sizes and colors from spring to combined in attractive designs. Choose a natural-looking or fall. Choose native species over cultivars when possible. more formal style. Plant densely, using native groundcovers as “green mulch,” leaving some bare soil for the 70 percent of native bees that nest in the ground. PRESERVE MARYLAND’S BIODIVERSITY Plant in drifts of 3 or more plants to be noticed by pollinators. Many bees provision their nests with pollen from native plants, and butterflies and moths eat native species at the larval stage. PROVIDE WATER SOURCES Birds, in turn, feed an abundance of these caterpillars to their Include mud-puddling areas for butterflies. (Refresh water often to deter mosquitoes.) young. Going native supports this whole food web. PROVIDE SHELTER IMPROVE WATER QUALITY AND REDUCE YOUR CARBON Add nesting and overwintering sites for cavity-nesting bees, caterpillars and others by FOOTPRINT leaving fallen leaves where possible and incorporating dead wood (stalks, logs, stumps). Conventional gardens often employ fertilizers, pesticides, SAFEGUARD POLLINATOR HABITAT supplemental water, and fossil-fuel-using machinery – resulting Control invasive plants, and avoid pesticides when possible. in poor soil health, erosion, and polluted stormwater runoff.

Photo Credits: https://tinyurl.com/y9hvgu2n These plants were selected for their ability Part Sun and Moist Garden for Pollinators to withstand moist conditions in partial sun, and for their pollinator value.

Cutleaf Bleeding Hairy Wild Swamp Virginia Cardinal New England Showy Spotted * Beardtongue* Bergamot* Milkweed* Mountain Mint* Flower Aster* Goldenrod* Geranium Penstemon Monarda Asclepias Pycnanthemum Lobelia Symphyotrichum Solidago Geranium eximia hirsutus fistulosa incarnata virginianum cardinalis novae-angliae speciosa maculatum Early bloomer for Attractive to Low- Provides nectar Extremely hardy Irresistible to Majestic in fall Valuable late- Beautiful pollinators bees, maintenance. for bees and and easy to grow. hummingbirds with large purple season nectar pinkish-purple including just- bumblebees, Long-tongued butterflies. Is a The leaves are and butterflies. daisies. Flowers and pollen for showy flowers in returning butterflies, and bees, butterflies, host plant for very fragrant. Prospers in part supply valuable native bees, spring. hummingbirds. hummingbirds. and the monarch Long bloom time. sun (moist soils) late- season nectar honeybees, Bees and syrphid Prefers full to An easy-to-grow hummingbirds sip butterfly. Rated Rated “very high” or in sun (wetter for migrating butterflies, flies are most part shade in and trouble-free nectar from the “very high” in in pollinator value soils). Rated monarch moths and common average to moist plant. Rated flowers. Rated pollinator value by USDA NRCS. “high” in butterflies. Rated beetles. Rated pollinators. soils. “high” in “high” in by USDA NRCS. pollinator value “high” in “high” in pollinator value pollinator value by USDA NRCS. pollinator value by pollinator value by USDA NRCS. by USDA NRCS. USDA NRCS. by USDA NRCS.

9 plants 9 plants 9 plants 7 plants 6 plants 9 plants 9 plants 5 plants 5 plants SG CBH HB WB SM VM CF NEA SG Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Bloom Times:

20 feet

* Deer-resilient, SG NEA resists or withstands some browsing. SM Note: Featured Pollinator:

This design is flexible based 10 feet Hummingbird clearwing moth on available space. To make WB this garden smaller, Often mistaken for tiny hummingbirds, reduce the number of plants CF CBH these moths visit the same flowers as per species. their namesake birds. The long proboscis VM makes this insect a perfect pollinator for deep tubular flowers, such as those of wild bergamot. Our beautiful native coral HB SG honeysuckle vine feeds hummingbird More Info on Bee City: moth caterpillars, who overwinter in the https://livegreenhoward.com/land/pollinators/ fallen leaves below. Alternates The following plant species can be alternately combined to create a pollinator garden in part sun, moist conditions. For more information about native plants for selected species and other pollinator resources, visit: livegreenhoward.com/land/pollinators/

SG CBH HB WB SM VM CF NEA SG Virginia Spotted Cutleaf Bleeding Hairy Wild Swamp Cardinal New England Showy Mountain Mint* Geranium Heart* Beardtongue* Bergamot* Milkweed Flower Aster* Goldenrod* Clustered Woodland Wild columbine Foxglove Culver’s root* Coastal Plain Great Blue Lobelia New York Aster* Bluestem Mountain Mint phlox Aquilegia beardtongue Veronicastrum Joe-Pye Lobelia siphilitica Symphyotrichum goldenrod* Pycnanthemum Phlox divaricata canadensis (Penstemon virginicum Eutrochium dubium Blue Mistflower* novi-belgii Solidago caesia digitalis) muticum Coral Bells* Golden Ragwort* Scarlet beebalm Butterfly Conoclinium New York Wrinkleleaf Narrow-leaved coelestinum Heuchera Packera aurea Dogbane Monarda didyma Milkweed* Ironweed* goldenrod* americana Apocynum Asclepias tuberosa Mountain Mint* Vernonia Solidago rugosa cannabinum Pycnanthemum noveboracensis tenuifolium

Why Plant Natives? How You Can Help Pollinators ENJOY A BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPE PROVIDE FOOD The many textures, colors and habits of native plants can be Plant a succession of native blooms of different shapes, sizes and colors from spring to combined in attractive designs. Choose a natural-looking or fall. Choose native species over cultivars when possible. more formal style. Plant densely, using native groundcovers as “green mulch,” leaving some bare soil for the 70 percent of native bees that nest in the ground. PRESERVE MARYLAND’S BIODIVERSITY Plant in drifts of 3 or more plants to be noticed by pollinators. Many bees provision their nests with pollen from native plants, and butterflies and moths eat native species at the larval stage. PROVIDE WATER SOURCES Birds, in turn, feed an abundance of these caterpillars to their Include mud-puddling areas for butterflies. (Refresh water often to deter mosquitoes.) young. Going native supports this whole food web. PROVIDE SHELTER IMPROVE WATER QUALITY AND REDUCE YOUR CARBON Add nesting sites for bees, caterpillars and others by leaving fallen leaves where FOOTPRINT possible and incorporating dead wood (stalks, logs, stumps) into the garden. Conventional gardens often employ fertilizers, pesticides, SAFEGUARD POLLINATOR HABITAT supplemental water, and fossil-fuel-using machinery – resulting Control invasive plants, and avoid pesticides when possible. in poor soil health, erosion, and polluted stormwater runoff. Photo Credits: https://tinyurl.com/y9hvgu2n These plants were selected for their shade for Pollinators tolerance and their pollinator value.

Fetterbush* Sweetspire* Great Blue Dwarf Crested Spotted Geranium* Turtlehead* Cutleaf Bleeding White Wood Serviceberry* Eubotrys Itea Lobelia* Iris* Geranium Heart* Aster* Amelanchier racemosa Virginica Lobelia siphilitica Iris cristata maculatum glabra Dicentra eximia Eurybia divaricata canadensis This plant is Easy-to-grow Striking blue Spring Supports A summer A lovely early This easy-to- A wonderful great for shade shrub and host summer flowers ephemeral butterflies and bloomer with spring flower grow plant has spring bloomer and is deer plant for the support bloomer that many native bees. white flowers to that supports attractive basal with edible resistant. Bees American holly hummingbirds supports Easy to grow and attract bees, hummingbirds, leaves and a berries. This and butterflies azure. Also visited native bees, hummingbirds spreads as a butterflies and butterflies and pretty white fall plant supports visit the flowers. by bees and other bumblebees and and bees. It’s a medium-height hummingbirds. long-tongued bloom. It is a mining and Beautiful butterflies. Its sweat bees. It low grower groundcover. Host for bees. It often late-season food sweat bees, and evergreen winter creamy white, often reseeds in filling in the Crushed leaves endangered dies back in the source for is great for foliage in an bottlebrush the garden over ground layer of emit odor that Baltimore summer heat butterflies and height and array of maroons flower opens in time and likes your pollinator repels checkerspot and and may show a bees, and structure in the and purples. spring. Reds and moist soil. garden. Good biting insects. the buckeye. regeneration of spreads as a garden. maroon foliage in for wet areas. Does well in leaves in the fall. groundcover. fall. moist soil. 1 plant 3 plants 3 plants 6 plants 6 plants 6 plants 6 plants SB FB SS GBL DCI 6 plants SG 6 plants TH CBH WWA Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Bloom Times:

* Deer-resilient, resists or withstands some browsing. TH Note: This design is flexible Featured Pollinator: based on available FB Ruby Throated Hummingbird space. To make this Archilochus colubris garden smaller, Loves to feed on many of our shade reduce the number of pollinator garden selections like plants per species. white turtlehead, spotted geranium, great blue lobelia and cutleaf bleeding heart. These DCI hummingbirds make beautiful More Info on Bee City: thimble-sized nests and are expert https://livegreenhoward.com/land/pollinators/ flyers. They can even fly backwards! Alternates The following plant species can be alternately combined to create a pollinator garden in shade conditions. For more information about native plants and for selected species other pollinator resources, visit: livegreenhoward.com/land/pollinators/

SB FB SS GBL DCI SG TH CBH WWA Serviceberry* Fetterbush* Sweetspire* Great Blue Lobelia* Dwarf Crested Spotted Turtlehead* Cutleaf Bleeding White Wood Iris* White Fringetree* Mountain laurel* Dwarf Fothergilla* Dutchman's Geranium* Woodland Phlox Heart* Aster* Chionanthus Kalmia latifolia Fothergilla gardenia Breeches* Jacob's Ladder Cardinal Flower* Phlox divaricata Foxglove Gray Goldenrod* virginicus Dicentra cucullaria Polemonium reptans Lobelia cardinalis Beardtongue* Solidago nemoralis Inkberry Holly* Summersweet Spiderwort* Penstemon digitalis Witch Hazel Ilex glabra Clethra alnifolia Eastern Foamflower* Blue Flag Iris* Tradescantia Black Cohosh* Iris versicolor Hamamelis virginiana Rosebay Smooth Hydrangea Columbine* Tiarella cordifolia virginiana Tall Meadow Rue* Actaea racemosa Sweetbay Rhododenron Hydrangea Aquilegia Wild Ginger* Bottlebrush Golden Thalictrum pubescens Green and Gold* Canadensis Magnolia* Rhododendron arborescens Asarum canadense Grass* Ragwort* Clustered Mountain Chrysogonum Magnolia virginiana maximum Virginia Bluebells* Elymus hystrix Packera aurea Mint* virginiana Mertensia virginica Pycnanthemum muticum Why Plant Natives? How You Can Help Pollinators ENJOY A BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPE PROVIDE FOOD The many textures, colors and habits of native plants can be Plant a succession of native blooms of different shapes, sizes and colors from spring to combined in attractive designs. Choose a natural-looking or fall. Choose native species over cultivars when possible. more formal style. Plant densely, using native groundcovers as “green mulch,” leaving some bare soil for the 70 percent of native bees that nest in the ground. PRESERVE MARYLAND’S BIODIVERSITY Plant in drifts of 3 or more plants to be noticed by pollinators. Many bees provision their nests with pollen from native plants, and butterflies and moths eat native species at the larval stage. PROVIDE WATER SOURCES Birds, in turn, feed an abundance of these caterpillars to their Include mud-puddling areas for butterflies. (Refresh water often to deter mosquitoes.) young. Going native supports this whole food web. PROVIDE SHELTER IMPROVE WATER QUALITY AND REDUCE YOUR CARBON Add nesting sites for bees, caterpillars and others by leaving fallen leaves where FOOTPRINT possible and incorporating dead wood (stalks, logs, stumps) into the garden. Conventional gardens often employ fertilizers, pesticides, SAFEGUARD POLLINATOR HABITAT supplemental water, and fossil-fuel-using machinery – resulting Control invasive plants, and avoid pesticides when possible in poor soil health, erosion, and polluted stormwater runoff. Photo Credits: https://tinyurl.com/y9hvgu2n These plants were selected for their suitability in Wet Garden for Pollinators a wet environment and for their pollinator value.

Button Hollow Swamp Tussock Marsh Common Blue Blue Summersweet Bush* Joe-Pye Milkweed* Sedge* Marigold Violet* Mistflower* Clethra Cephalanthus Eutrochium Asclepias Carex Caltha Viola Conoclinium alnifolia occidentalis fistulosum incarnata stricta palustris sororia coelestinum Fragrant white You’ll find a A dizzying array Watch monarchs, Dense, bright Glossy foliage Spring-blooming Soft purple flower spikes midsummer party of butterflies bumblebees, and green tussocks colonizes the groundcovers, blooms burst draw in on the globe- and bees visit other pollinators host butterfly ground all violets host forth like clouds hummingbirds, shaped flowers, the flowers. sip from pink and moth season following fritillary just as other butterflies and where butterflies Caterpillars of flowers that pop caterpillars and sunny spring butterfly flowers start to bees in mid to and bumblebees more than 40 in July. Monarch provide shelter blooms that caterpillars. wane, providing late summer, gather among species eat the caterpillars eat and feed halictid Violet miner much-needed followed by small native bees. leaves, and twig- the leaves. A good overwintering bees and flower bees specialize fuel for migrating golden foliage Host plant for the nesting bees can milkweed for areas for flies, important on the pollen of butterflies and and seeds that royal walnut lay eggs in cut small gardens. pollinators and pollinators. violets to feed late-season bees. feed birds. moth. stalks. other wildlife. their young. 4 plants S BB 1 plant HJP 4 plants SM 6 plants TS 6 plants MM 10 plants CBV 16 plants BM 5 plants Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Bloom Times:

30 feet

* Deer- resilient, resists or withstands some browsing. HJP MM

BB 10 feet Note: This design is CBV Featured Pollinator: flexible based S Variegated fritillary caterpillar on available space. To make Euptoieta claudia this garden As caterpillars, some fritillary butterfly species smaller, TS have evolved to eat only violets. Though reduce the BM variegated fritillaries can have a more varied number of diet, in our area violets are their mainstay. plants per SM Unlike the great spangled and meadow species. More Info on Bee City: fritillaries, which overwinter as larvae, https://livegreenhoward.com/land/pollinators/ variegated fritillaries head south when temperatures dip. Alternates The following plant species can be alternately combined to create a pollinator garden in wet conditions. For more information about native plants and other for selected species pollinator resources, visit: livegreenhoward.com/land/pollinators/

S BB HJP SM TS MM CBV BM Summersweet Button Bush* Hollow Joe-Pye Swamp Tussock Sedge* Marsh Marigold Common Blue Blue Mistflower* Sweetspire* Pussy Willow Ironweed Milkweed* Soft Rush Golden Ragwort* Violet* Monkeyflower Itea virginica Salix discolor Vernonia Cardinal Flower Juncus effuses Packera aurea Blue Flag Iris Mimulus ringens noveboracensis Lobelia cardinalis Goat’s Beard* Elderberry Creek Sedge Canada Anemone* Iris versicolor Woodland Phlox Aruncus dioicus Sambucus Swamp Sunflower Wild Bergamot* Carex amphibola Anemone canadensis Virginia Bluebells* Phlox divaricata canadensis Monarda fistulosa Possumhaw Helianthus Tufted Hairgrass* Wrinkleleaf Mertensia virginica angustifolius Golden Silky Dogwood* New England Aster Deschampsia Goldenrod Great Blue Lobelia Alexander* Cornus amomum cespitosa Viburnum nudum Switchgrass* Symphyotrichum Solidago rugosa Lobelia siphilitica Zizia aurea Panicum virgatum novae-angliae Why Plant Natives? How You Can Help Pollinators ENJOY A BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPE PROVIDE FOOD The many textures, colors and habits of native plants can be Plant a succession of native blooms of different shapes, sizes and colors from spring to combined in attractive designs. Choose a natural-looking or fall. Choose native species over cultivars when possible. more formal style. Plant densely, using native groundcovers as “green mulch,” leaving some bare soil for the 70 percent of native bees that nest in the ground. PRESERVE MARYLAND’S BIODIVERSITY Plant in drifts of 3 or more plants to be noticed by pollinators. Many bees provision their nests with pollen from native plants, and butterflies and moths eat native species at the larval stage. PROVIDE WATER SOURCES Birds, in turn, feed an abundance of these caterpillars to their Include mud-puddling areas for butterflies. (Refresh water often to deter mosquitoes.) young. Going native supports this whole food web. PROVIDE SHELTER IMPROVE WATER QUALITY AND REDUCE YOUR CARBON Add nesting and overwintering sites for cavity-nesting bees, caterpillars and others by FOOTPRINT leaving fallen leaves where possible and incorporating dead wood (stalks, logs, stumps). Conventional gardens often employ fertilizers, pesticides, SAFEGUARD POLLINATOR HABITAT supplemental water, and fossil-fuel-using machinery – resulting Control invasive plants, and avoid pesticides when possible. in poor soil health, erosion, and polluted stormwater runoff.

Photo Credits: https://tinyurl.com/y9hvgu2n