Carpenter bee  
 

  
Honey bee


Bees are some of our 
most valuable pollinators
.
Here is a list of plants native  
to the US that will 
attract bees:

Aster  Aster
Currant  Ribes
Elder  Sambucus
Fireweed  Chamerion
Goldenrod  Solidago
Huckleberry  Vaccinium
Larkspur  Delphinum
Lupine  Lupinus
Madrone  Arbutus
Mint  Mentha
Oregon grape  Berberis
Pacific waterleaf  Hydrophyllum
Penstemon  Penstemon
Rabbit-brush  Chrysothamnus
Rhododendron  Rhododendron
Salmonberry  Rubus
Saskatoon  Amalanchier
Scorpion-weed Phacelia
Snowberry  Symphoricarpos
Stonecrop  Sedum
Wild buckwheat  Eriogonum
Willow  Salix
Yarrow  Achillea

  
About Bees

 

Borage (above) is one of the plants that attracts bees to your garden and orchard where they will pollinate your fruit trees, flowers, and flowering vegetables (squash, tomatoes, potatoes, bell peppers)

For more information about bees and other pollinators, go to
www.xerces.org.

 

Leafcutter bee


Worldwide we depend on bees 
and other pollinators for about 
1/3 of our food crops.

Carpenter bee with pollen sac

 
This is a list of common garden 
plants attractive to bees that were introduced largely by Europeans immigrating to the US:


Black-eyed Susan  Rudbeckia
California lilac  Ceanothus
Tickseed  Coreopsis
English lavender  Lavandula
Purple toadflax  Linaria
Marjoram  Origanum
Hyssop  Hyssopus
Basil  Ocimum
Globe thistle  Echinops
Rosemary  Rosmarinus


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