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Monarda fistulosa
Once common across eastern North America, now almost gone. It feeds on wild bergamot and asters, flowers any yard can grow.
⚠ Supports a species at riskWho this brings back
Supports 8 species at risk.
Once common across eastern North America, now almost gone. It feeds on wild bergamot and asters, flowers any yard can grow.
An endangered bee that depends on the same native blooms its host bees need. Plant for one, help both.
A bird that once nested on every farm, now threatened. Native plants feed the flying insects it catches on the wing.
It feeds entirely on flying insects. Every native flowering patch is more food in the air it hunts.
It perches on tall spruces and sallies out to catch flying insects. Native blooms keep its prey in the air.
It needs goldenrod and asters to fatten up before winter. The late-summer blooms most gardens are missing.
Its slow 'pee-a-wee' call is heard less each year. It needs the flying insects native blooms feed.
Our native ladybugs are being pushed out. Native plants give them aphids to hunt and cover to overwinter.
About Wild Bergamot
Wild Bergamot is a native wildflower. It blooms from July to September with lavender & purple flowers. It does best in full sun to part shade and dry to moist soil. Mature size: 60–120 cm. It feeds bees, butterflies, hummingbirds and caterpillars (as a larval host). Deer resistant.
Other plants the Rusty-patched Bumble Bee needs