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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.

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

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