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1 Gardening for Native Pollinators!

2 Conservation in your Backyard Backyard conservation that helps native bees and butterflies will have a positive effect on the greater environment. Garden Features Gardening Practices Plant Selection

3 Garden Features to Attract Butterflies and Pollinators

4 A Diverse Landscape

5 Shelter and Basking Spots

6 A Water Feature cupplant tiger swallowtails puddling

7 Bare Soil & Mud Spots great golden digger wasp cicada killer

8 Natural Mulches

9 Dead Wood & Brush Piles

10 Butterfly and Bee Houses

11 Gardening Practices to Sustain Butterflies and Pollinators

12 Garden Style Naturalized Border garden

13 Maximize Space Any spaces not used to full advantage? a steep slope the boulevard the odd space behind the garage the narrow space between houses

14 Smaller Intentional Lawn

15 Alternative Lawn Use no or more targeted herbicides Clover, dandelions, & creeping Charlie are great for bees

16 Eliminate Chemicals Herbicides Insecticides

17 Garden Clean-up Keep some messy areas Leave dead standing stems Don t disturb habitat from late fall to spring Leave some fallen fruit

18 Selecting Plants for Butterflies and Pollinators

19 Native or Non-native? Native Non-native cultivated Non-native invasive

20 Bloodroot Cultivated Flowers

21 Don t Use Invasive species

22 Native Plant Suppliers Landscape Alternatives, Scandia Outback Nursery, Hastings Prairie Moon Nursery, Winona Prairie Restorations, Inc., Princeton and Scandia Naturallywildflowers.com, Minneapolis

23 monarchs mating Provide Plants for All Life Stages caterpillar feeding chrysalis monarchs on blazingstar

24 Functional Guild Diversity in Plant form or habit Flower type Flower color Bloom season

25 Woody Plants Deciduous Evergreen Tree - Shrub - Vine Canopy Layer Sub-canopy Layer Shrub Layer

26 Graminoids Grasses and sedges Tallgrass or shortgrass Cool or warm season

27 Forbs Flower types - Family Bloom season Habit

28 Plant Portfolio

29 Trees Aspen Birch Oak Basswood Wild cherry Willow

30 Shrubs Blackberry Bush honeysuckle Dogwood Elderberry Gooseberry New Jersey tea Rose Viburnum Wild plum

31 Native Grasses Hairy grama Bouteloua hirsuta Sideoats grama Bouteloua curtipendula Little bluestem Schizachyrium scoparium Prairie dropseed Sporobolus heterolepis

32 Woodland Sedges Pennsylvania sedge Carex pensylvanica Sprengel s sedge Carex sprengelii

33 Aster Family Purple coneflower Echinacea purpurea Sneezeweed Helenium autumnale Sunflower Helianthus spp. Common ox-eye Heliopsis helianthoides Gray-headed coneflower Ratibida pinnata Black-eyed Susan Rudbeckia hirta Cup-plant Silphium perfoliatum

34 Aster Family Big-leaved aster Aster macrophyllus New England aster Aster novae-angliae Arrow-leaved aster Aster sagittifolius Silky aster Aster sericeus

35 Aster Family Rough blazing star Liatris aspera Meadow blazing star Liatris ligulistylis Dotted blazing star Liatris punctata Prairie blazing star Liatris pycnostachya

36 Aster Family Zig-zag goldenrod Solidago flexicaulis Gray goldenrod Solidago nemoralis Stiff goldenrod Solidago rigida Elm-leaved goldenrod Solidago ulmifolia

37 Aster Family Joe-pye weed Eupatorium maculatum White snakeroot Eupatorium rugosum Ironweed Vernonia fasciculata

38 Milkweed Family Marsh milkweed Asclepias incarnata Common milkweed A. syriaca Butterflyweed A. tuberosa Whorled milkweed A. verticillata

39 Mint Family Giant blue hyssop Agastache foeniculum Wild lavender bergamot Monarda fistulosa Obedient plant Physostegia virginiana Virginia mountain mint Pycnanthemum virginianum

40 Parsley Family Rattlesnake master Eryngium yuccifolium Golden alexanders Zizia aurea black swallowtail butterfly larvae

41 Pea Family Lead plant Amorpha canescens Wild white indigo Baptisia alba Purple prairie clover Dalea purpurea White prairie clover Dalea candida Lupine Lupinus perennis Partridge pea Cassia fasciculata

42 Snapdragon Family Red turtlehead Chelone obliqua White beardtongue Penstemon digitalis Figwort Scrophularia lanceolata Culver s root Veronicastrum virginicum

43 Gentian Family Bottle gentian Gentiana andrewsii Cream gentian Gentiana flavida

44 Buttercup Family Pasque flower Anemone patens Wood anemone Anemone quinquefolia Rue anemone Anemonella thalictroides Columbine Aquilegia canadensis Marsh marigold Caltha palustris Sharp-lobed hepatica Hepatica acutiloba

45 Geranium Family Wild geranium Geranium maculatum Violet Family Bird s-foot violet Viola pedata Phlox Family Wild blue phlox Phlox divaricata Jacob s ladder Polemonium reptans Poppy Family Bloodroot Sanguinaria canadensis

46 Thank You!

47 Connection to Native Habitat Your yard can be productive habitat and a connection to green spaces in your community

48 Vervain Family Hoary vervain Verbena stricta Blue vervain Verbena hastata

49 Campanula Family Harebell Campanula rotundifolia Cardinal flower Lobelia cardinalis Great blue lobelia Lobelia siphilitica

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