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Quietly disappearing near you
These are the named species at risk within range of North Carolina. See what is at stake, then pick the plants that bring them back, all on one page.
Within range of North Carolina · High opportunity
At risk in North Carolina, and within range of your garden. Your yard is one of the things that brings them back.
A Monarch can only raise its young on milkweed. No milkweed, no Monarchs. It's that simple, and that fixable.
Disease wiped out most of them. A single bat eats thousands of insects a night, the ones night-blooming natives raise.
Its flute-like song is fading from our woods. Native shrubs raise the caterpillars it needs to feed its chicks.
It catches every meal on the wing. Native plants sustain the insects it lives on.
Named for its haunting call, now seldom heard. It depends on the large moths native plants raise.
A grassland bird losing its grasslands. Native bunchgrasses bring back the insects and cover it needs.
A bubbling song of summer meadows, now threatened. Native grasses rebuild the habitat it raises its young in.
It needs goldenrod and asters to fatten up before winter. The late-summer blooms most gardens are missing.
Photos: Photo by Derek Ramsey, GFDL 1.2 · Photo by Marvin Moriarty/USFWS, public domain · Photo by Mdf, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Photo by Andrew C, CC BY 2.0 · Photo by Dominic Sherony, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Photo by Ken Thomas, public domain · Photo by Paul Engel, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Photo by Judy Gallagher, CC BY 2.0
The plants that bring back the most
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