Gardeners maintaining the areas around the perimeter of the garden are encouraged to plant native pollinator plants. A list of plants approved by the Hill East Community Garden board is below. The list was provided by the DC Department of Energy & Environment and can also be found here. Questions about perimeter plantings not on this list should be referred to the board for approval.
DC NATIVE POLLINATOR PLANTS |
|
Common Name |
Botanical Name |
Flowers |
|
Swamp Milkweed | Asclepias incarnata |
Common Milkweed | Asclepias syriaca |
Yellow Wild | Baptisia tinctoria |
Partridge Pea | Chamaecrista fasciculata |
Showy Tick | Desmodium canadense |
Three-nerved Joe-Pye Weed | Eupatorium dubium |
Common Boneset | Eupatorium perfoliatum |
Purple-node Joe-Pye Weed | Eupatorium purpureum |
Giant Sunflower | Helianthus giganteus |
Ox-eye Sunflower | Heliopsis helianthoides |
Round-head Bush-Clover | Lespedeza capitata |
Dense Blazing-star | Liatris spicata |
Shaggy Blazing-star | Liatris graminifolia |
Great Blue | Lobelia siphilitica |
Wild Blue | Lupinus perennis |
Wild Bergamot (aka Bee Balm) | Monarda fistulosa |
Spotted Horsemint (aka Bee Balm) | Monarda punctata |
Beardtongue | Penstemon digitalis |
Bigleaf Mountain Mint | Pycnanthemum muticum |
Common Mountain Mint | Pycnanthemum virginianum |
Black-Eyed Susan | Rudbeckia hirta |
Coneflower | Echinacea angustifolia |
Canada Goldenrod | Solidago canadensis |
Early Goldenrod | Solidago juncea |
New England Aster | Symphyotrichum novae-angliae |
Hairy Heath Aster | Symphyotrichum pilosum |
Spiderworts | Tradescantia virginiana |
Blue Vervain | Verbena hastata |
New York Ironweed | Vernonia noveboracensis |
Golden Alexanders | Zizia aurea |
Big Bluestem | Andropogon gerardii |
Switch Grass | Panicum virgatum |
Little Bluestem | Schizachyrium scoparium |
Indian Grass | Sorghastrum nutans |
Eastern Gamagrass | Tripsacum dactyloides |
Canada Wild-rye | Elymus canadensis |
Virginia Wild-rye | Elymus virginicus |