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Native plants in Ontario

459 native species. Each one leads with the strongest true thing it does, supporting a named species at risk, hosting a specialist, or raising the caterpillars baby songbirds are made of.

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Big Bluestem

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Andropogon gerardii

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59 plants

Blue Giant-Hyssop

Blue Giant-Hyssop

Agastache foeniculum

Lactuca tatarica var. pulchella

Blue Vervain

Verbena hastata

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Blue Wild Indigo

Blue Wild Indigo

Baptisia australis

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Bracted Honeysuckle

Bracted Honeysuckle

Lonicera involucrata

Butterfly Milkweed

Supports a species at risk

Butterfly Milkweed

Asclepias tuberosa

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Canada Fly-Honeysuckle

Canada Fly-Honeysuckle

Lonicera canadensis

Canada Lily

Lilium canadense

Cardinal Flower

Cardinal Flower

Lobelia cardinalis

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Common Evening-Primrose

Supports a species at risk

Common Evening-Primrose

Oenothera biennis

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Common Milkweed

Supports a species at risk

Common Milkweed

Asclepias syriaca

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Culver's Root

Veronicastrum virginicum

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Cup Plant

Supports a species at risk

Silphium perfoliatum

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Cut-Leaved Coneflower

Cut-Leaved Coneflower

Rudbeckia laciniata

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Dense Blazing-Star

Supports a species at risk

Dense Blazing-Star

Liatris spicata

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Early Lowbush Blueberry

Early Lowbush Blueberry

Vaccinium angustifolium

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Eastern Buttonbush

Eastern Buttonbush

Cephalanthus occidentalis

🐝🦋🐛🪶

False Sunflower

False Sunflower

Heliopsis helianthoides

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Fireweed

Chamaenerion angustifolium

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Foxglove Beardtongue

Foxglove Beardtongue

Penstemon digitalis

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Giant Ironweed

Vernonia gigantea

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Glaucous Honeysuckle

Glaucous Honeysuckle

Lonicera dioica

Golden Currant

Great Blue Lobelia

Great Blue Lobelia

Lobelia siphilitica

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Hairy Beardtongue

Hairy Beardtongue

Penstemon hirsutus

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Harlequin Blue Flag

Harlequin Blue Flag

Iris versicolor

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Heart-Leaved Aster

Heart-Leaved Aster

Symphyotrichum cordifolium

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Highbush Blueberry

Highbush Blueberry

Vaccinium corymbosum

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Michigan Lily

Lilium michiganense

🐝🦋🐛🪶

New England Aster

Supports a species at risk

New England Aster

Symphyotrichum novae-angliae

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Nodding Onion

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Northern Bush-Honeysuckle

Northern Bush-Honeysuckle

Diervilla lonicera

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Capnoides sempervirens

Prairie Milkweed

Supports a species at risk

Prairie Milkweed

Asclepias sullivantii

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Purple Giant-Hyssop

Supports a species at risk

Purple Giant-Hyssop

Agastache scrophulariifolia

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Purple-Flowering Raspberry

Purple-Flowering Raspberry

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Purple-Stemmed Aster

Purple-Stemmed Aster

Symphyotrichum puniceum

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Red Columbine

Supports a species at risk

Aquilegia canadensis

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Red Elderberry

Sambucus racemosa

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Red Maple

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Red Raspberry

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Scarlet Beebalm

Supports a species at risk

Scarlet Beebalm

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Silver Maple

Acer saccharinum

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Polygonatum biflorum

Spotted Jewelweed

Spotted Jewelweed

Impatiens capensis

Spotted Joe-Pye-Weed

Spotted Joe-Pye-Weed

Eutrochium maculatum

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Square-Stemmed Monkeyflower

Square-Stemmed Monkeyflower

Mimulus ringens

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Lupinus perennis

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Swamp Milkweed

Supports a species at risk

Asclepias incarnata

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Mertensia paniculata

Thin-Leaved Snowberry

Thin-Leaved Snowberry

Symphoricarpos albus

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Liriodendron tulipifera

Virginia Bluebells

Virginia Bluebells

Mertensia virginica

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Virginia False Dragonhead

Virginia False Dragonhead

Physostegia virginiana

🐝🦋🐛🪶

White Turtlehead

White Turtlehead

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Wild Bergamot

Supports a species at risk

Monarda fistulosa

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Wild Blue Phlox

Wild Blue Phlox

Phlox divaricata

🐝🦋🐛🪶

Wood Lily

Lilium philadelphicum

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