Pollinators and Plant Select® with Sonya Anderson
Pollinator Plants for the Colorado Garden – Grace Johnson, Denver botanic Gardens Chatfield Farms
PERENNIALS:
Agastache – any
Agastache cana – double bubble mint
Ajuga – bugleweed
Asclepias tuberosa – butterfly weed
Alcea rosea – hollyhock
Asters
Centaurea montana – perennial bachelor button
Coronilla varia – crownvetch
Digitalis – foxglove
Echinops – globe thistle
Eryngium – sea holly
Euphorbia
Gaura
Lamium – nettle
Liatris – gayfeather
Limonium latifolium – sea lavender
Malva- mallow
Monarda – beebalm, any
Nepeta faassenii x ‘Six Hills Giant’
Nepeta mussinii – catmint
Papaver -poppy, any
Penstemon – beardtongue, any
Perovskia – Russian sage
Phlox subulata
Polygonum – Border Jewel, or any
Prunella – self- heal
Salvia
Solidago – goldenrod
Sedums – stonecrop
Sedum spectabile
Sempervivum
Stachys lanata (lambs ear)
Teucrium – germander
Thyme – wooly
Veronica
Verbascum – mullein, any
WILDFLOWERS
Asters
Blue mustard
Chicory
Clovers
Datura
Eupatorium – esp. Joe Pye Weed
Goldenrod
Lythrum (illegal)
Milkweed
Mustard
Phacelia
Prickley pear
Rocky Mt. Bee Plant
Silphium speciosum (showy rosinweed)
Teasel
Thistle
Vervain
Wild cucumber
Yucca
HERBS
Anise hyssop
Borage
Catnip
Chives
Comfrey
Horehound
Hyssop
Lavender
Marjoram
Mints
Motherwort
Origanum
Sage
Santolina
Thyme
SHRUBS:
Buddleia
Caragana – esp. wild bees
Caryopteris
(blue mist spirea)
Chrysothamnus nauseosus
(rabbitbrush)
Cotoneasters
Cytisus – scotch broom
Euonymus
Fallugia paradoxa (Apache plume)
Nanking Cherry
Privet
Rubus deliciosus (Boulder raspberry)
Serviceberry
Snakeweed
Sorbaria sorbifolia (ash leaf spirea)
Spirea
TREES:
Amur maple
Buckeye/Horse chestnut
Catalpa
Crab
European spindle tree
(Euonymus europeus)
Fruit trees
Golden Raintree
(Koelreuteria paniculata)
Hawthorn
Linden
Mayday tree (Prunus padus)
Pussywillow
Russian Olive
Wild Plum
Willows – for pollen
OTHER:
Berries: raspberries, strawberries, currants, etc.
Vines: silver lace vine (polygonum aubertii), virginia creeper
Cover crops: clovers, buckwheat
Alfalfa
Annuals: sunflowers, lavatera, cosmos, cleome, datura, larkspur, marigolds portulaca, morning glories, snapdragons, zinnias
Vegetables: squash, melons, cucumbers, onions (flowers)
Sweet clover
Honeydew – from willows
Spring bulbs – esp. allium