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Identified by beekeepers and pollination biologists as an important pollen or nectar source (honey plant) for honey bees. This information was provided by the Pollinator Program at The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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| Acer negundo | Ash-leaf maple Ash-leaved maple Box elder Boxelder Fresno de guajuco | |
| Acer rubrum | Red maple Scarlet maple | |
| Acer saccharum | Sugar maple Northern sugar maple | |
| Agastache foeniculum | Blue giant hyssop Blue giant-hyssop Fragrant giant hyssop Lavender hyssop Anise hyssop | |
| Agastache scrophulariifolia | Purple giant hyssop Purple giant-hyssop | |
| Agastache urticifolia | Nettleleaf giant hyssop Nettle-leaf Horsemint | |
| Amsinckia menziesii var. intermedia | Common fiddleneck Intermediate fiddleneck | |
| Amsinckia menziesii var. menziesii | Menzies' fiddleneck | |
| Asclepias albicans | White-stemmed Milkweed Whitestem milkweed | |
| Asclepias amplexicaulis | Clasping milkweed | |
| Asclepias arenaria | Sand milkweed | |
| Asclepias asperula | Spider milkweed Antelope horns Green-flowered milkweed Spider antelope-horns | |
| Asclepias asperula ssp. capricornu | Antelopehorns Antelope horns | |
| Asclepias brachystephana | Bract milkweed | |
| Asclepias californica | California milkweed | |
| Asclepias cryptoceras | Pallid Milkweed Humboldt Mountain Milkweed | |
| Asclepias engelmanniana | Engelmann's milkweed | |
| Asclepias eriocarpa | Woollypod milkweed | |
| Asclepias exaltata | Poke milkweed | |
| Asclepias fascicularis | Mexican whorled milkweed Narrowleaf milkweed | |
| Asclepias hirtella | Green milkweed | |
| Asclepias humistrata | Pinewoods milkweed Sandhill milkweed | |
| Asclepias incarnata | Swamp milkweed Pink Milkweed | |
| Asclepias incarnata ssp. incarnata | Swamp milkweed | |
| Asclepias incarnata ssp. pulchra | Swamp milkweed | |
| Asclepias lanceolata | Fewflower milkweed Few-flower milkweed Red milkweed | |
| Asclepias latifolia | Broadleaf milkweed | |
| Asclepias linearis | Slim milkweed | |
| Asclepias linaria | Pineneedle milkweed Needle-Leaf Milkweed | |
| Asclepias longifolia | Longleaf milkweed | |
| Asclepias michauxii | Michaux's Milkweed | |
| Asclepias obovata | Pineland Milkweed | |
| Asclepias oenotheroides | Zizotes milkweed Hierba de Zizotes Longhorn milkweed Side-cluster milkweed Primrose milkweed Lindheimer's milkweed | |
| Asclepias ovalifolia | Oval-leaf milkweed Dwarf milkweed | |
| Asclepias perennis | Aquatic milkweed | |
| Asclepias purpurascens | Purple milkweed | |
| Asclepias quadrifolia | Fourleaf milkweed | |
| Asclepias rubra | Red Milkweed Tall Pink Bog Milkweed | |
| Asclepias speciosa | Showy milkweed | |
| Asclepias stenophylla | Slimleaf Milkweed Narrowleaf Milkweed Narrowleaf Green Milkweed | |
| Asclepias subulata | Rush milkweed Desert milkweed Ajamete | |
| Asclepias subverticillata | Horsetail milkweed Poison Milkweed | |
| Asclepias sullivantii | Prairie milkweed Sullivant's milkweed Smooth milkweed | |
| Asclepias syriaca | Common milkweed | |
| Asclepias texana | Texas milkweed White milkweed | |
| Asclepias tomentosa | Tuba milkweed | |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly milkweed Orange milkweed Pleurisy root | |
| Asclepias variegata | Redring milkweed White-flowered milkweed | |
| Asclepias verticillata | Whorled milkweed Eastern whorled milkweed | |
| Asclepias viridiflora | Green milkweed Green comet milkweed Green antelopehorn milkweed | |
| Asclepias viridis | Green antelopehorn Green milkweed | |
| Catalpa bignonioides | Southern catalpa Cigar tree Indian bean | |
| Catalpa speciosa | Northern catalpa Catawba tree Cigar tree Indian bean | |
| Ceanothus griseus | Carmel ceanothus Carmel creeper Yankee Point ceanothus | |
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common buttonbush Buttonbush Button willow | |
| Ceanothus purpureus | Hollyleaf ceanothus | |
| Ceanothus tomentosus | Woolyleaf ceanothus Woolly-leaf mountain lilac Ramona lilac | |
| Chamerion angustifolium | Fireweed Willow herb | |
| Chamerion latifolium | Broad-leaf fireweed Dwarf fireweed | |
| Clethra alnifolia | Coastal sweet pepperbush Clethra Summer sweet | |
| Cleome isomeris | Bladderpod spiderflower Bladderpod | |
| Cleome lutea | Yellow spiderflower Yellow spider-flower Yellow beeplant Yellow caper Golden caper | |
| Cleome serrulata | Rocky Mountain beeplant Rocky mountain bee plant Waa Skunk weed | |
| Dalea aurea | Golden dalea Golden prairie clover | |
| Dalea bicolor var. argyrea | Silver prairie clover Silver dalea Silver bush dalea | |
| Dalea candida | White prairie clover | |
| Dalea candida var. candida | White prairie clover White prairie-clover | |
| Dalea compacta | Compact prairie clover | |
| Dalea compacta var. pubescens | Compact prairie clover | |
| Dalea emarginata | Wedgeleaf prairie clover | |
| Dalea enneandra | Nine-anther prairie clover | |
| Dalea feayi | Feay's prairie clover Globe-headed Prairie Clover | |
| Dalea formosa | Feather dalea Featherplume | |
| Dalea frutescens | Black dalea Black prairie clover | |
| Dalea greggii | Gregg dalea Gregg's prairie clover Trailing indigo bush Indigo bush | |
| Dalea hallii | Hall's prairie clover Hall’s Dalea | |
| Dalea jamesii | James's prairie clover | |
| Dalea lachnostachys | Glandleaf prairie clover | |
| Dalea lanata | Woolly prairie clover | |
| Dalea lasiathera | Purple dalea | |
| Dalea multiflora | Roundhead prairie clover White prairie clover Round headed dalea Round headed clover | |
| Dalea nana | Dwarf prairie clover Dwarf Dalea | |
| Dalea nana var. carnescens | Dwarf prairie clover | |
| Dalea obovata | Pussyfoot | |
| Dalea phleoides var. microphylla | Slimspike prairie clover | |
| Dalea pinnata | Summer farewell | |
| Dalea pogonathera | Bearded dalea Bearded prairie clover | |
| Dalea pulchra | Pretty dalea Bush dalea Santa Catalina prairie clover | |
| Dalea purpurea | Purple prairie clover | |
| Dalea purpurea var. purpurea | Purple prairie clover Violet prairie clover | |
| Dalea tenuis | Pinkglobe prairie clover | |
| Dalea villosa | Silky prairie clover | |
| Dalea villosa var. villosa | Silky prairie clover | |
| Dalea wrightii | Wright's prairie clover | |
| Diospyros virginiana | Common persimmon Eastern persimmon | |
| Erigeron glaucus | Seaside fleabane Seaside daisy | |
| Eupatoriadelphus fistulosus | Trumpetweed Queen of the meadow Hollow Joe-pye weed Joe-pye weed | |
| Helianthus maximiliani | Maximilian sunflower Max sunflower | |
| Ilex glabra | Inkberry Gallberry | |
| Ilex opaca | American holly Christmas holly | |
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