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Green Landscaping: Greenacres
Wild Ones Handbook
WHAT EVERY WILD ONE SHOULD KNOW
Landscaping for Wildlife
NATIVE PLANTS FOR BIRDS
Flowers for Song Birds | |
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Yellow Giant Hyssop | Agastache nepetoides |
Great Angelica | Angelica atropurpurea |
Canada Tick Trefoil | Desmodium canadense |
Sunflower (all species) | Helianthus spp. |
Round-headed Bushclover | Lespedeza capitata |
Blazing Star (all species) | Liatris spp. |
Great Blue Lobelia | Lobelia siphilitica |
White Prairie Clover | Petalostemum candidum |
Purple Prairie Clover | Petalostemum purpureum |
Large Solomon's Seal | Polygonatum canaliculatum |
Small (Downy) Solomon's S. | Polygonatum pubescens |
Rosin Weed | Silphium integrifolium |
Compassplant | Silphium laciniatum |
Cupplant | Silphium perfoliatum |
Prairie Dock | Silphium terebinthinaceum |
Solomon's Plume | Smilacina racemosa |
Starry Solomon's Plume | Smilacina stellata |
Early Horse Gentian | Triosteum aurantiacum |
Late Horse Gentian | Triosteum perforliatum |
Grasses for Song Birds | |
Big Bluestem | Andropogon gerardi |
Little Bluestem | Andropogon scoparius |
Sideoats Grama | Bouteloua curtipendula |
Scribner's Panic Grass | Panicum oligosanthes scribnerianum |
Switch Grass | Panicum virgatum |
Indian Grass | Sorhastrum nutans |
Cord Grass | Spartina pectinata |
Prairie Dropseed | Sporobolus heterolepis |
Trees And Shrubs for Song Birds | |
Saskatoon | Amelanchier alnifolia |
Downy Serviceberry | Amelanchier arborea |
Allegheny Serviceberry | Amelanchier laevis |
Sugarberry | Celtis laevigata |
Hackberry | Celtis occidentalis |
Dogwood (all species) | Cornus spp. |
Hawthorn (all species) | Crataegus spp. |
Fly Honeysuckle | Diervilla lonicera |
Juniper (all species) | Juniperus spp. |
Spice Bush | Lindera benzoin |
Ninebark | Physocarpus opulifolia |
Cherry, Plum (all species) | Prunus spp. |
Wild Sweet Crab | Pyrus coronaria |
American Mountain Ash | Pyrus decora |
Iowa Crab | Pyrus ioensis |
Purple Chokeberry | Pyrus floribunda |
Black Chokeberry | Pyrus melanocarpa |
Sumac (all species) | Rhus spp. |
Gooseberry (all species) | Ribes spp. |
Wild Rose (all species) | Rosa spp. |
Raspberry (all species) | Rubus spp. |
Elderberry | Sambucus canadensis |
Red Elder | Sambucus pubens |
Buffalo Berry | Sheperdia canadensis |
Snowberry | Symphoricarpos albus |
Wolfberry | Symphoricarpos occidentalis |
Coralberry | Symphoricarpos orbiculatus |
Blueberry (all species) | Vaccinium spp. |
Arrowwood (all species) | Viburnum spp. |
Nannyberry | Viburnum lentago |
Highbush Cranberry | Viburnum trilobum |
Flowers for Hummingbirds | |
Yellow Giant Hyssop | Agastache nepetoides |
American Aloe | Agave americana |
Wild Columbine | Aquilegia canadensis |
Canada Milk Vetch | Astragalus canadensis |
Patridge Pea | Cassia fasciculata |
Wild Senna | Cassie hebecarpa |
Maryland Senna | Cassia marilandica |
Indian Paintbrush | Castilleja coccinea |
Turtlehead | Chelone glabra |
Rocky Mt. Bee Plant | Cleome serrulata |
Pale Purple Coneflower | Echinacea pallida |
Purple Coneflower | Echinacea purpurea |
Ocotillo | Fouguieria splendens |
Spotted Jewelweed | Impatiens capensis |
Pale Jewelweed | Impatiens pallida |
Scarlet Gilia | Ipomopsis aggregata |
Cardinal Flower | Lobelia cardinalis |
Wild Lupine | Lupinus perennis |
Oswego Tea | Monarda didyma |
Bergamot/Bee Balm | Monarda fistulosa |
Tobacco | Nicotiana spp. |
Prairie Lousewort | Pedicularis canadensis |
Foxglove Beardtongue | Penstemon digitalis |
Large-flowered Beardtongue | Penstemon grandiflorus |
Pale Beardtongue | Penstemon pallidus |
Phlox (all species) | Phlox spp. |
False Dragonhead | Physostegia virginiana |
Large Solomon's Seal | Polygonatum canaliculatum |
Small (Downy) Solomon's S. | Polygonatum pubescens |
Early Horse Gentian | Triosteum aurantiacum |
Late Horse Gentian | Triosteum perfoliatum |
Trees And Shrubs for Hummingbirds | |
Ohio Buckeye | Aesculus glabra |
Red Buckeye | Aesculus paria |
Bottlebrush Buckeye | Aesculus parviflora |
Southern Catalpa | Catalpa bignonioides |
Northern Catalpa | Catalpa speciosa |
American Fly Honeysuckle | Lonicera canadensis |
Gooseberry (all species) | Ribes spp. |
Vines for Hummingbirds | |
Cross Vine | Bignonia capreolata |
Trumpet Honeysuckle | Lonicera sempervirens |
Trumpet Vine | Campsis radicans |