"Pollinator Paradise" Demonstration Garden

What's in Bloom?


August 11, 2025


 

Photos by Debbie Roos, Agricultural Extension Agent.


All plants native to North Carolina unless otherwise noted.

Potter wasp on late figwort
Potter wasp on late figwort (Scrophularia marilandica). Photo by Debbie Roos.
Giant ironweed with cup plant. The giant ironweed is about 10 feet tall!
Giant ironweed (Vernonia gigantea) with cup plant (Silphium perfoliatum). The giant ironweed is about 10 feet tall! Photo by Debbie Roos.
Green lynx female on spurred butterfly pea vine
Green lynx female on spurred butterfly pea vine (Centrosema virginianum). Photo by Debbie Roos.
American groundnut vine, also called potato bean, is a native perennial vine with a stunning and unique bloom. It produces edible tubers and pods.
American groundnut vine, also called potato bean (Apios americana), is a native perennial vine with a stunning and unique bloom. It produces edible tubers and pods. Photo by Debbie Roos.

Here's What's Blooming This Week
'Blue Fortune' anise hyssop
Agastache x 'Blue Fortune' Anise hyssop * hybrid of U.S. native
Maroon or reddish-brown pea-like flowers with 5 petals in compact racemes arising from leaf axils. Blooms from June to Aug.
Apios americana
Groundnut
Tiny tubular 5-petaled flowers in clusters in the upper leaf axils and stem tips from May to September. Flowers are white to greenish-white

Boltonia asteroides

White doll's daisy
Lesser calamint
Calamintha nepeta Lesser calamint * exotic
Prairie poppy mallow
Callirhoe involucrata Prairie poppy mallow * central U.S.
Spurred butterfly-pea
Centrosema virginianum Spurred butterfly-pea
Buttonbush
Cephalanthus occidentalis Buttonbush
Large white petals on green leaves.
Chelone glabra White turtlehead
Field thistle
Cirsium discolor Field thistle
Palmleaf thoroughwort
Conoclinium greggii
Gregg's mistflower/ palmleaf thoroughwort
* native to southwestern U.S.
Tall tickseed
Coreopsis tripteris
Tall tickseed
Whorled tickseed
Coreopsis verticillata Whorled tickseed
Purple coneflower

Echinacea purpurea

Purple coneflower
Roundleaf thoroughwort
Eupatorium rotundifolium Roundleaf thoroughwort
Flowering spurge

Euphorbia corollata

Flowering spurge
small white flowers
Eurybia divaricatus
White wood aster
Burgundy blanketflower
Gaillardia 'Burgundy' Lanceleaf blanketflower
Red and yellow petals surround a red and yellow center.
Gaillardia pulchella Indian blanket
5-petaled red-purple to magenta-purple flowers just over an inch large. Each petal has dark purple veining. Blooms from late spring through summer. Cut back to encourage late summer to early fall blooming.
Helenium autumnale Common sneezeweed
Oxeye daisy
Heliopsis helianthoides 'Summer Nights' Oxeye daisy
Red rose mallow
Hibiscus coccineus Red rose mallow
Velvet mallow
Hibiscus grandiflorus Velvet mallow
Seashore mallow
Kosteletzkya virginica Seashore mallow
Blazing star
Liatris scariosa Devil's bite
Gayfeather
Liatris squarrosa Scaly blazing star
Cardinal flower

Lobelia cardinalis

Cardinal flower

Great blue lobelia

Lobelia siphilitica

Great blue lobelia

Coral honeysuckle Lonicera sempervirens 'Cedar Lane', 'Major Wheeler', and 'John Clayton'

Honeysuckle
Spotted horsemint
Monarda punctata Spotted horsemint
Catmint

Nepeta 'Walker's Low'

Catmint

* exotic
Prairie goldenrod
Oligoneuron album Prairie goldenrod
Ornamental oregano
Origanum laevigatum 'Herrenhausen' Ornamental oregano * exotic
Purple passionflower vine
Passiflora incarnata Purple passionflower vine
Yellow passion flower vine
Passiflora lutea
Yellow passion flower vine
Narrowleaf Carolina phlox

Phlox carolina ssp. angusta

Narrowleaf Carolina phlox
'Jeana' phlox

Phlox paniculata 'Jeana'

Garden phlox
1 inch pale purple to rose flowers borne in a showy terminal spike. The corolla is swollen at the throat, the upper lip is domed, the lower lip spreading with three lobes. Blooms from July to October.
Physostegia virginiana 'Miss Manners'
Obedient plant
Appalachian mountain mint
Pycnanthemum flexuosum Appalachian mountain mint
Small pointed leaves with light violet flowers.
Pycnanthemum incanum Hoary mountain mint
Loomis' mountain mint
Pycnanthemum loomisii Loomis' mountain mint
Short-toothed mountain mint
Pycnanthemum muticum Short-toothed mountain mint
narrowleaf mountain mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium Narrow-leaf mountain mint
Virginia mountain mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum Virginia mountain mint
Orange coneflower
Rudbeckia fulgida Orange coneflower
Green-headed coneflower
Rudbeckia laciniata
Green-headed coneflower
Brown-eyed susan
Rudbeckia triloba Brown-eyed susan
Carolina wild petunia
Ruellia caroliniensis Carolina wild petunia
Late figwort
Scrophularia marilandica Late figwort
Sedum 'Autumn Joy'
Sedum 'Autumn Joy' Stonecrop * exotic
Cup plant
Silphium perfoliatum
Cup plant
A bee on small flowers of white petals around a cluster of yellow round rods.

Solidago bicolor

White goldenrod
Bluestem goldenrod
Solidago caesia Bluestem goldenrod
Early goldenrod

Solidago juncea

Early goldenrod
Small’s goldenrod
Solidago pinetorum Small's goldenrod
'Fireworks' rough-leaf goldenrod
Solidago rugosa 'Fireworks' Rough-leaf goldenrod
Solar Cascade goldenrod
Solidago shortii 'Solar Cascade' Goldenrod
bright yellow flowers
Solidago speciosa Showy goldenrod
Blue wood aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium Blue wood aster
Heath aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides 'Snowflurry' Heath aster
New England aster
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae 'September Ruby' New England aster
Frost aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum Frost aster
Society garlic
Tulbaghia violacea Society garlic * exotic
Blue vervain

Verbena hastata

Blue vervain
Verbena stricta

Verbena stricta

Hoary vervain
Giant ironweed
Vernonia gigantea 'Purple Pillar'
Giant ironweed
Threadleaf ironweed
Vernonia lettermanii
Threadleaf ironweed
New York ironweed
Vernonia noveboracensis New York ironweed
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