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| Common Name | Scientific Name | Notes | Bloom time | Conditions | Height | flower color |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ornamental Onion | Allium 'Millennium' | Attracts bees, butterflies, showy, hardy, self seeding | July | Full sun, drought tolerant | 18" | lavender |
| Anise Hyssop | Agastache foeniculum | Attracts bumblebees, hummingbirds, and butterflies, smells like licorice, self seeds | June, July, August, September | Drought tolerant, full sun | 3' | lavender |
| Mini Bee Balm | Monarda didyma | Showy, beneficial to pollinators, smaller than native | July, Aug, Sept | Full sun, dry to moist soil | 1-2' | lavender |
| Wild Bergamot, Bee Balm | Monarda fistulosa | Native, showy, very beneficial to pollinators | July, Aug, Sept | Full sun, dry to moist soil | 2'-5' | lavender |
| Betony | Stachys monieri 'Hummelo' | attracts butterflies, showy, hardy | June, July | Full/part sun, drought tolerant | 18"-2' | purple |
| Black Eyed Susan | Rudbeckia fulgida 'Goldsturm' | Hardy, showy, smaller sized, pollinators | July, Aug, Sept | Full sun, medium soil | 18"-24" | yellow/gold |
| Blazing Star | Liatris spicata 'Kobold' | showy, hardy, pollinators, self seeding | June, July | Full sun, drought tolerant | 18"-2' | purple |
| Brown Eyed Susan | Rudbeckia triloba | Drought tolerant once established, self seeds | June, July | Full/part sun, medium soil | 2' | yellow/gold |
| Butterfly Weed | Asclepias tuberosa | Monarchs, showy, well behaved | June, July, Aug | Full Sun, dry soil | 2' | orange |
| Calamint Montrose White | Calamintha nepeta 'Montrose White' | Very attractive to bees, sterile | July, Aug, Sept | Full sun, medium soil | 1-1.5' | white |
| Coreopsis lanceleaf | Coreopsis lanceolata | Native, host plant for several moths, as many as 22 native bee species rely on it | June, July | Full sun, dry to moist soil | 1'-2' | yellow/gold |
| Coreopsis moonbeam | Coreopsis verticillata 'Moonbeam' | short, delicate, pollinators, butterflies | June, July | sun/part sun, drought tolerant | 15"-18" | yellow |
| Culver's Root | Veronicastrum virginicum | Native, showy, hardy, pollinators, self seeding | June, July, August | sun/part sun, medium soil | 4' | white |
| Goldenrod - Stiff | Solidago rigida | Native, nesting sites, source of late season nectar for bees, butterflies and other insects, host plant for Wavy-Lined Emerald, and Green Leuconycta moths. | Aug, Sept | Full sun, any soil, self seeding | 3'-5' | yellow/gold |
| Prairie Drop Seed Grass | Sporobolus heterolepis | Native, excels in hot, dry conditions, seeds are a great food for seed eating birds | July-Sept | sun/part sun, medium soil | 1-2' | seed heads |
| Purple Coneflower | Echinacea 'Purpurea' | Pollinator friendly, butterflies, seeds for birds, hardy | June, July | Full/part sun, drought tolerant | 2' | purple |
| Pale Purple Coneflower | Echinacea pallida | Native, pollinator friendly, butterflies, seeds for birds, hardy | June, July | Full/part sun, drought tolerant | 2'-3' | purple |
| Sedum stonecrop | Sedum ellacombianum | Showy, hardy, attracts butterflies, spreads | June, July | Full sun, drought tolerant | 6"-8" | yellow |
| Shasta daisy | Leucanthemum | showy, spreads | July, Aug, Sept | Full sun, drought tolerant | 20" | white |
| Purple poppy mallow, wine cups | Callirhoe involucrata | Native, showy, attracts numerous small bees, bumble bees, host plant for Gray Hairstreak and Painted Lady butterflies | June, July, Aug, Sept | sun/part sun, clay soil, drought tolerant | low spreading | fuchsia |
| Yarow | Achillea 'Moonshine' | showy, spreads | July, Aug | Drought tolerant, sun | 15"-18" | yellow |
| Sweet Black-eyed Susan | Rudbeckia subtomentosa | Native, attract many different bees, beetles, butterflies, and skippers | August, September, October | Sun, medium soil | 5' | yellow |
| Sage | Salvia nemorosa 'Caradonna' | Deer, rabbit resistant, pollinators, reblooms if deadheaded | June, July | Sun, medium soil | 18" | dark purple |