Providing wildflower-rich habitat is a significant action you can take to support pollinators. Research indicates that native plants are usually the best sources of nectar and pollen for native pollinators. These gardens are brimming with nectar rich flowers that thrive in sandy soils. Sandy soil is a coarse-textured soil primarily made of large sand particles, which allows for excellent drainage and aeration but results in poor water and nutrient retention
Sand Pollinator Garden Plant List
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Full Garden Plant List
Nodding Wild Onion
Allium cernuum
Lead Plant
Amorpha canescens
Butterflyweed
Asclepias tuberosa
Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
Lance Leaf Coreopsis
Coreopsis lanceolata
Prairie Coreopsis, Stiff Coreopsis
Coreopsis palmata
Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
Showy Tick Trefoil
Desmodium canadense
Prairie Smoke
Geum triflorum
Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
Rough Blazingstar
Liatris aspera
Marsh Blazingstar
Liatris spicata
Spotted Beebalm, Horse mint, Dotted Mint
Monarda punctata
Hairy Beard-tongue
Penstemon hirsutus
Prairie Phlox
Phlox pilosa
Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
Little Bluestem
Schizachyrium scoparium
Hairy Goldenrod
Solidago hispida
Stiff Goldenrod
Solidago rigida
Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
New England Aster
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
Sky Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum oolentangiense
Arrow-leaved aster
Symphyotrichum urophyllum
Ironweed
Vernonia missurica