Ageratina altimssima

Family:  Asteraceae

Season: Flowers in late Summer to Fall and Fruits in the Fall.

Attracts: Butterflies, Leaf-cutting bees

Native Area: Eastern USA

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Anemone virginiana

Family:  Ranunculaceae

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

Attracts: Bees

Native Area: Eastern and Central USA

Asclepias incarnata

Family:  Asclepiadaceae

Season: Flowers in the Summer and Fruits in the Fall

Attracts: Bees, Butterflies, and Songbirds

Native Area: Eastern and Central USA

Asclepias syriaca

Family:  Asclepiadaceae

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

Attracts: Butterflies and bees. Host for monarch butterflies and milkweed tussock moths

Native Area: Eastern and Central USA and Canada

Cornus florida

Family:  Cornaceae

Season: Flowers in Spring, and Fruits in the Fall

Attracts: Butterflies and specialized Andrenid bees. Host for spring azure

Native Area: Eastern North America

Eurybia divaricata

Family:  Asteraceae 

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

Attracts: Birds, bees, butterflies. Hosts the Pearl Crescent Butterfly

Native Area: Eastern USA and Canada

Monarda didyma

Family:  Lamiaceae

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

Attracts: Bumblebees, swallowtails, hummingbirds, specialized bees. Host to hermit sphinx moth

Native Area: Eastern North America

Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii

Family:  Asteraceae 

Season: Flowers in the Summer-Fall

Attracts: Birds, butterflies and bees 

Native Area: Eastern and Central North America

Schizachyrium scoparium

Family:  Poaceae

Season: Late summer, early fall

Attracts: Host for skipper and common wood nymph

Native Area: USA, southern Canada, northern Mexico

Solidago rugosa 

Family:  Asteraceae 

Season: Fall

Attracts: Birds and butterflies

Native Area: Eastern and Central North America

Solidago speciosa

Family:  Asteraceae 

Season: Late summer, early fall

Attracts: Butterflies, andrenid and colletes bees. Also host to wavy-lined emerald

Native Area: USA, southern Canada

Symphyotrichum oblongifolium

Family:  Asteraceae 

Season: Late summer, early fall

Attracts: Specialized andrenid and colletes bees 

Native Area: Eastern and Central North America

Verbena [Glandularia] canadensis

Family:  Verbenaceae

Season: Early spring flowers (hot pink color), long bloom season 

Attracts: Butterflies and hummingbirds 

Native Area: Eastern and South Central USA