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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.

New Jersey Tea 1
Ceanothus americanus
Virginia Sweetspire 2
Itea virginica
Common Spicebush 3
Lindera benzoin
Big Bluestem 4
Andropogon gerardii
Northern Dropseed 5
Sporobolus heterolepis
Butterfly Milkweed 6
Asclepias tuberosa
Mouse-eared Coreopsis 7
Coreopsis auriculata
Large-flowered Tickseed 8
Coreopsis grandiflora
Purple Coneflower 9
Echinacea purpurea
Wandflower 10
Gaura lindheimeri 'Siskiyou Pink'
Purple-headed Sneezeweed 11
Helenium flexuosum
Wild Quinine 12
Parthenium integrifolium

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