Best Pollinator

Wild bergamot beebalm is a flowering wildflower found across prairies and meadows. It belongs to the mint family and features fragrant leaves valued for traditional medicinal purposes by Native American communities. The plant’s purple blossoms are particularly attractive to pollinators like bees, pl...

An East Asian shrub valued for late-summer clusters of blue to violet flowers that appear after most shrubs have finished blooming, and tolerant of dry, well-drained soils.

The New England aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae) is a prominent herbaceous perennial native to eastern North America, distinguished by its vibrant purple ray florets blooming in the autumn.

Hibiscus syriacus is a deciduous flowering shrub native to east Asia and the national flower of South Korea, widely cultivated globally for its late-summer blooms.

Caryopteris x clandonensis is a hybrid flowering shrub valued for its late-season blue flowers, first cultivated in England by Arthur Simmonds in the 1930s.

Echium is a genus of roughly 70 flowering plant species native to Europe, Africa, and Asia, notably including Viper's Bugloss, which produces tall spikes of vibrant blue flowers.

Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) is a North American prairie wildflower widely used in herbal medicine and among the top-selling botanical supplements in the United States.

Lantana camara is a flowering evergreen shrub native to the tropical Americas, notable for its multi-colored flower clusters but listed as a highly invasive species globally.

Native to China, Buddleja davidii is a fast-growing deciduous shrub notable for its nectar-rich flowers, which were introduced to European gardens in the 1890s.

Echinops, or globe thistle, is a genus of plants native to Europe and Asia distinguished by their spherical, spiky, metallic-blue inflorescences.

Salvia is the largest genus in the mint family, Lamiaceae, and includes Salvia officinalis, the common culinary sage used worldwide since antiquity.

Sedum is a large genus of fleshy, succulent plants known as stonecrops, globally recognized for their extreme drought tolerance and frequent use in modern green roof architecture.

Verbena is a large genus of annual and perennial plants native to the Americas and Asia, widely cultivated for their long-lasting clusters of small, vibrant flowers.

Nepeta, commonly called catmint, is a genus of herbaceous plants notable for producing nepetalactone, the active compound that attracts domestic cats.

Asters (family Asteraceae) comprise thousands of species distributed globally and were used by ancient Greeks who burned them to ward off evil spirits and serpents.

Solidago, commonly known as goldenrod, is a genus of North American plants in the aster family, designated as the state flower of both Kentucky and Nebraska.