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Pollinator Plants of East Tennessee

A guide to the native plants useful as nectar and/or host plants in East Tennessee pollinator gardens. Created for Knoxville Zoo's Classroom Pollinator Project.

American Beautyberry 1
Callicarpa americana
Anise Hyssop 2
Agastache foeniculum
Big Bluestem 3
Andropogon gerardii
Black-eyed Susan 4
Rudbeckia fulgida
Black-eyed-Susan 5
Rudbeckia hirta
Blazing Star 6
Liatris spicata
Blue False Indigo 7
Baptisia australis
Bradbury's Bee Balm 8
Monarda bradburiana
Butterfly Milkweed 9
Asclepias tuberosa
Clustered Mountain Mint 10
Pycnanthemum muticum
Common Sneezeweed 11
Helenium autumnale
Common Spicebush 12
Lindera benzoin
Devil's Bite 13
Liatris scariosa
Dwarf Blazing Star
Liatris microcephala
Dwarf Joe-Pye weed 14
Eutrochium dubium
Foxglove Beardtongue 15
Penstemon digitalis 'Husker's Red'
Frostweed 16
Verbesina virginica
Great Blue Lobelia 17
Lobelia siphilitica
Indiangrass 18
Sorghastrum nutans
Lance-leaved Tickseed 19
Coreopsis lanceolata
Large-flowered Tickseed 20
Coreopsis grandiflora
Little Bluestem 21
Schizachyrium scoparium
Moss-Phlox 22
Phlox subulata
Mouse-eared Coreopsis 17
Coreopsis auriculata
Narrowleaf mountainmint 23
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
New Jersey Tea 24
Ceanothus americanus
Northern Dropseed 15
Sporobolus heterolepis
Pink Turtlehead 13
Chelone lyonii 'Hot Lips'
Purple Coneflower 25
Echinacea purpurea
Purple-headed Sneezeweed 7
Helenium flexuosum
Scaly Blazing Star 23
Liatris squarrosa
Showy Milkweed 26
Asclepias speciosa
Spotted Bee Balm 27
Monarda punctata
Switchgrass 28
Panicum virgatum
Tall Coreopsis 29
Coreopsis tripteris
Threadleaf Tickseed 30
Coreopsis verticillata
Virginia Sweetspire 31
Itea virginica
Wandflower 32
Gaura lindheimeri 'Siskiyou Pink'
Whorled Milkweed 29
Asclepias verticillata
Wild Bergamot 33
Monarda fistulosa
Wild Quinine 34
Parthenium integrifolium

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