Honey Bee-Visited Plants Categorized by Their Pollen Value All Plants in This Table Are Valuable Nectar Plants

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Honey bee-visited plants categorized by their pollen value All plants in this table are valuable nectar plants

Plant (species name) Pollen production? Apple (Malus pumila) Lavender (Lavandula spp.) Sanfoin (Onobrychis spp.) Valuable Aster (Aster spp.) Melon (family Cucurbitaceae) Star thistle (Centaurea spp.) Birdsfoot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) Mustard, field (Sinapis arvensis) Sunflower (Helianthus spp.) Alsike clover (Trifolium hybridum) Oilseed rape/canola (Brassica Sweet clover (yellow) (Melilotus Dutch white clover (Trifolium repens) napus) officinalis) Cornflower/Chicory (Cichorium intybus) Purple loosestrife (Lythrum Tobacco (Nicotiana spp.) Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) salicaria) Vetch (Vicia spp.) Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) Raspberry (Rubus spp.) Yellow rocket (Barbarea spp.) Buckthorn (Rhamnus spp.) Red clover (Trifolium pratense) Goldenrod (Solidago spp.) Lupins (Lupinus spp.) Pussy willow (Salix discolor) Vipers’s bugloss (Echium vulgare) Buckwheat (Fagopyrun esculentum) Motherwort (Leonurus cardiac) Sweet clover (white) (Melilotus Less valuable Carrot/Queen Anne’s Lace (Daucus carota) Sweetpepperbush (Clethra albus) Clover, crimson (Trifolium incarnatum) alnifolia) Teasel (Dipsacus spp.) Flax/linseed (Linum usitatissimum) Phacelia (Phacelia spp.) Tulip poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) Honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) Poplar (Populus spp.) Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus Maple (Acer spp.) Snowberry (Symphoricarpos quinquefolia spp.) Wild thyme (Thymus serpyllum) spp.) Lavendar (Lavandula species) Willow, white (Salix alba) Soybean (Glycine max) Fireweed (Chamaenerion angustifolium) Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) Milkweed (Asclepias spp.) Sourwood (Oxydendrum spp.) Inadequate or not produced Basswood/Linden, American or European Hawkweed (Hieracium spp.) Smartweed (Polygonum spp.) Unknown (Tilia spp.) Live oak (Quercus spp.) Sumac (Rhus spp.) Black gum/tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica) Magnolia (Magnolia spp.) Bur cucumber (Sicyos angulatus)

* There are several other plants not included in this table from which honey bees collect pollen. The pollen value of these other plants have not been included either because their values have not been calculated in relation to the plants in this table so do not offer easy comparison, they have not yet been assessed for pollen value, or they are not considered valuable nectar plants.