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Native Plants at Short Pump Pollinator Garden (2019)
- Common Name (Scientific Name) – Height – Bloom Color
Spring Bloomers
- Coral Honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens) – vine – red/yellow
- Creeping Phlox (Phox subulata) – 4′-6′ – mixed
- False Indigo Bush (Amorpha fruticosa) – 4′-12′ – purple
- Golden Alexander (Zizea aurea) – 1.5′-3′ – yellow
- Rabbit-eye Blueberry (Vaccinium ashei) – to 6′ – white/pink
- Wild Strawberry (Fragaria virginiana) – to 9″ – white
Summer Bloomers
- Anise Hyssop (Agastache foeniculum) – 2′-4′ – purple
- BeeBalm (Monarda didyma) – 2′-4′ – red
- Black-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia fulgida) – 3′ – yellow
- Blazing Star (Liatris spicata) – 2′-4′ – purple
- Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) – 5′ – pink/purple
- Cup Plant (Silphium perfoliatum) – 4′-8′ – yellow
- Passionflower (Passiflora incarnata) – vine – purple
- St. Johnswort (Hypericum prolificum) – to 4′ – yellow
- Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) – 3′-4′ – red
- Wild Bergamot Beebalm (Monarda fistulosa) – 2′-4′ – lilac
Summer to Fall Bloomers
- Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa) – 3′ – orange
- Cassia or Wild Senna (Senna hebecarpa) – 6′ – yellow
- Clustered Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum muticum) – 1′-3′ – white/purple
- Cutleaf Coneflower (Rudbeckia laceolata) – 2′-9′ – yellow
- Joe-Pye Weed (utrochium dubium ‘Little Joe’) – 3′-4′ – mauve
- Summer Phlox (Phlox paniculata) – 2′-4′ – mixed
- Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) – 4′-5′ – pink, white
- Wild Petunia (Ruellia humilis) – 1.5′-2′ – lilac
Fall Bloomers
- Aster, New England (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae) – 3′ – purple
- Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis) – 2′-4′ – red
- Great Blue Lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica) – 3′ – blue
- Muhly Grass (Muhlenbergia capillaris) – 2′-3′ – pink
- Prairie Dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis) – 3′ – tan
- Showy Goldenrod (Solidago speciosa) – 3-5′ – yellow
- Swamp Sunflower (Helianthus angustifolius) – to 6′ – yellow
- Zigzag Goldenrod (Solidago flexicaulis) – 1′-3′ – yellow
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