| Common Name | Scientific Name | Notes | Bloom time | Conditions | Height | flower color |
| Allium | Allium ‘Millennium’ | attracts 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 |
| Bee Balm purple – mini | Monarda | showy, can have mildew, very beneficial to pollinators | July, Aug, Sept | Full sun, dry to moist soil | 1-2′ | lavender |
| Bee Balm wild purple | Monarda fistulosa | showy, can have mildew, 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, Aug | Full/part sun, drought tolerant | 18″-2′ | purple |
| Black Eyed Susan | Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii ‘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 | Showy, host plant for several moths, including Wavy-Lined Emerald. As many as 22 native bee species rely on plants in the Coreopsis genus | 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 |
| Culvers Root | Veronicastrum virginicum | showy, hardy, pollinators, self seeding | June, July, August | sun/part sun, medium soil | 4-5′ | white |
| Goldenrod – Stiff | Solidago rigida | Pollen, 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 | excels in hot, dry conditions. The seeds are a great food for seed eating birds | July-Sept | sun/part sun, medium soil | 2′ | |
| Purple Coneflower | Echinacea ‘Purpurea’ | Pollinator friendly, butterflies, seeds for birds, hardy, | June, July | Full/part sun, drought tolerant | 2′ | purple |
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| Sedum stonecrop | Sedum kamtschaticum? Not known | showy, hardy, attracts butterflies, spreads | June, July | Full sun, drought tolerant | 6″-8″ | yellow |
| Shasta daisy | Leucanthemum x superbum don’t remember variety “Daisy May’? | showy, spreads | July, Aug, Sept | Full sun, drought tolerant | 20″ | white |
| Wine cups, mallow | Callirhoe involucrata | 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 | fuschia, hot pink |