Fact Sheet
Perilous Plight of the Pollinators
High Value Pollinator Plants
For Wet Sites
This fact sheet contains information about highly valued pollinator plants to consider when designing your landscapes and gardens. The plants include native flowers, shrubs, trees, grasses and herbs. An effective pollinator planting has at least three species blooming at one time, i.e.: 3-early, 3-mid and 3-late, during the growing season. This would include flowers, shrubs and trees. Bunch grasses are listed since they provide nesting habitat for bumble bees.
Native IL Prairie Flowers
|
Common Name |
Scientific Name |
Light Needs |
Bloom Time |
|
Swamp Milkweed |
Asclepias incarnata |
Full Sun |
mid |
|
Marsh Marigold |
Caltha palustris |
Full Sun |
very early |
|
Turtlehead |
Chelone glabra |
Full Sun |
late |
|
Common Boneset |
Eupatorium perfoliatum |
Shade |
late |
|
Bottle gentian |
Gentiana andrewsii |
Full Sun |
mid |
|
Sneezeweed |
Helenium autumnale |
Shade |
late |
|
Marsh Blazingstar |
Liatris spicata |
Full Sun |
mid |
|
Cardinal Flower |
Lobelia cardinals |
Shade |
mid-late |
|
Blue Lobelia |
Lobelia siphilitica |
Full Sun |
late |
|
Winged Loostrife |
Lythrum alatum |
Full Sun |
mid |
|
Mountain Mint |
Pycnanthemum virginianum |
Shade |
mid |
|
Cup Plant |
Silphium perfoliatum |
Shade |
mid |
|
Riddell's Goldenrod |
Solidago riddellii |
Full Sun |
very late |
|
New England Aster |
Symphotrichium novae-angliae |
Full Sun |
very late |
|
Common Ironweed |
Vernonia fasciculata |
Full Sun |
late |
|
Culver's Root |
Veronicastrum virginicum |
Shade |
mid |
Native IL Shrubs
|
Common Name |
Scientific Name |
Bloom Time |
|
False Indigo |
Amorpha fruticosa |
early - mid |
|
Button bush |
Cephalanthus occidentalis |
late |
|
Spicebush |
Lindera benzoin |
early |
Native IL Trees
|
Common Name |
Scientific Name |
Bloom Time |
|
Willow |
Willow Species |
very early |
Native IL Prairie Bunch Grasses
|
Common Name |
Scientific Name |
|
Wool Grass |
Scirpus cyperinus |
Referernce: NRCS Illinois Biology Technical Guide No. 23
Pollinator Biology and Habitat
August 2012
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