Native plants for where you live, from a ZIP code, postal code or town. In the US, a curated list filtered by sun, water, edible parts and flower color, with soil and planting guidance for each and a mark on the ones recorded near you. Elsewhere, the natives recorded near you, filtered by plant group, family and what's flowering or fruiting each month.
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Most plant-eating insects are specialists and cannot switch to plants from another continent, so a garden of exotics can look lush and support almost nothing.
A few keystone genera carry most of it: oaks, willows, cherries, birches, poplars, goldenrods, asters and sunflowers. With limited space, choose from those. Prefer the straight species: double flowers and purple-leaved selections feed far less.
A prairie species needs lean soil and rots in a rich bed. Match the plant to the site rather than rebuilding it, but water everything through its first full season. Buy nursery-propagated, never wild-dug, and ask about neonicotinoids.
Something in flower spring to hard frost; the shoulders matter most. Leave it standing over winter: hollow stems hold nesting bees and pupae sit in the litter. Tidying in autumn removes what you spent summer attracting.