Build the Ultimate Pollinator Garden With These 8 Flowers
Arizona Milkweed, also known as Asclepias angustifolia, is a perennial plant that blooms from May through August. It features slender stems with umbels of small white to pale pinkish flowers and narrow, lance-shaped leaves.
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Desert Milkweed, or Asclepias subulata, flowers from June to September. It thrives in full sun and reflected heat, making it a valuable addition to butterfly gardens as it is a crucial food source for the larval stages of Queen and Monarch butterflies.
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Goodding Verbena, scientifically named Verbena gooddingii, blooms from May through October. Its fragrant lilac-purple flowers bloom above fuzzy grey-green foliage. While it loves heat and grows well in planters or the ground.
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Gregg s Mistflower, or Conoclinium greggii, is a perennial that flowers from March to November. Growing 2-3 feet tall with bluish-purple blooms, this plant thrives in full sun to part shade, is drought-tolerant.
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Desert Marigold, known as Baileya multiradiata, blooms from March to November. It thrives in poor, dry soils and extreme heat but is prone to crown rot if the soil is too wet.
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Indigo Bush, scientifically Amorpha fruticosa, flowers from April to June. It grows well in full sun or light shade and tolerates a range of soil conditions, including wet and poor sandy soils.
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Flattop Buckwheat, or Eriogonum fasciculatum, flowers from March to June. This small evergreen shrub has needle-like dark green foliage and produces masses of tiny white to pink flowers.
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Blackfoot Daisy, scientifically named Melampodium leucanthum, blooms from March to November. This sturdy, mounding plant thrives in rock gardens, is heat and drought-tolerant, and requires good drainage.
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