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

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