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

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