Cream Wild Indigo
Baptisia bracteata
Image; Sheila Brown / CC0 Public Domain
Golden Alexanders
Zizia aurea
Image: David J. Stang / CC BY-SA 4.0
Wild Geranium
Geranium maculatum
Image: Deedster / CC0 Public Domain
Smooth Penstemon
Penstemon digitalis
Image: Cbaile19 / CC0 Public Domain
Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
Image: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz / CC BY-SA 4.0
Pale Purple Coneflower
Echinacea pallida
Image: Llez / CC BY-SA 3.0
Purple Prairie Flower
Dalea purpurea
Image: Richard Thomas / CC0 Public domain
Swamp Milkweed
Asclepias incarnata
Image: Joshua Mayer / CC BY-SA 2.0
Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
Image: NRCS Montana / CC0 Public Domain
Culver's Root
Veronicastrum virginicum
Image: Robert H. Mohlenbrock. USDA / CC0
Field Thistle
Cirsium discolor
Image: Frank Mayfield / CC BY-SA 2.0
Missouri Ironweed
Vernonia missurica
Image: Eric Hunt / CC BY-SA 4.0
Prairie Blazing Star
Liatris pycnostachya
Image: Peter Gorman / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Rattlesnake Master
Eryngium yuccifolium
Image: Joshua Mayer / CC BY-SA 2.0
Yellow Giant Hyssop
Agastache nepetoides
Image: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz / CC0 Public Domain
Gray Goldenrod
Solidago nemoralis
Image: Joshua Mayer / CC BY-SA 2.0
Showy Goldenrod
Solidago speciosa
Image: Leonardo DaSilva / CC BY 2.0
Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
Image: Heike Löchel / CC BY-SA 2.0 DE
Wingstem
Verbesina alternifolia
Image: Cbaile19 / CC0 Public Domain
Our wildflower guides are adapted, with permission, from the Xerces Society’s pollinator-friendly native plants lists.
Two other great resources for wildlife-friendly native plants are National Wildlife Foundation’s Native Plant Finder and Audubon Societies’ Plants for Birds.