Echinacea purpureum

Family:  Asteraceae

Season: Flowers in the Summer and Fruits in the Summer-Fall

Attracts: Bees, Butterflies, and American goldfinches

Native Range: Eastern and Central USA

Monarda bradburyana

Family:  Lamiaceae

Season: Flowers in the Spring and Fruits in the Summer

Attracts: Bees

Native Range: Eastern and Central USA

Symphotrichum oblongifolium

Family: Asteraceae

Season: Flowers in the Summer-Fall and Fruits in the Fall

Attracts: Butterflies, Small Mammals, and Songbirds

Native Range: USA and Northeast Mexico

Lobelia siphilitica

Family: Campanulaceae

Season: Flowers in the Summer-Fall and Fruits in the Fall

Attracts: Butterflies, Small Mammals, and Songbirds

Native Range: USA and Northeast Mexico

Asclepias tuberosa

Family:  Apocynaceae

Season: Flowers in the Spring-Summer and Fruits in the Fall

Attracts: Bees, Butterflies, such as the monarch and gray hairstreak, and Moths, such as the milkweed tussock

Native Range: Eastern and Southern United States

Callicarpa americana

Family:  Lamiaceae

Season: Flowers in the Spring-Summer and Fruits in the Fall

Attracts: Butterflies, Pollinators, and Songbirds, including the American Robin

Native Range: Southeastern United States and Northern Mexico

Anacis verticillata

Family:  Asteraceae

Season: Flowers in the Spring-Summer and Fruits in the Summer

Attracts: Butterflies and Songbirds

Native Range: Southeaster USA

Blephila ciliata

Family:  Asteraceae

Season: Flowers in the Spring-Summer

Attracts: Long-tongued and short-tongued bees, Bee flies, Syrphid flies, Butterflies, and Skippers.

Native Range: Central and Eastern North America

Schizachyrium scoparium

Family: Poacaeae

Season: Flowers and Fruits in the Summer-Fall

Attracts: Hosts various skipper and Common Wood-Nymph larvae and feed Butterflies and songbirds

Native Range: Eastern North America