Native plants for hummingbirds
Hummingbirds find food by sight and feed while hovering, which is why the flowers that evolved for them look the way they do: red or orange, tubular, held clear of the foliage, and with no landing platform an insect could use. These are the catalog's hummingbird-adapted natives. Plant them where you can see them from a window, and stagger bloom into late summer to catch the southbound migration.
Bedfellow lists 267 of these.
The 30 most-observed are listed here — see all 267 in search.
- Pin Oak (Quercus palustris)
- Large Beardtongue (Penstemon grandiflorus)
- Tulip Poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera)
- Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa)
- Northern Red Oak (Quercus rubra)
- Trumpet Creeper (Campsis radicans)
- Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia)
- Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)
- Ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens)
- Eastern Red Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
- Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis)
- Lyre-leaf Sage (Salvia lyrata)
- Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia)
- Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata)
- Sticky Monkeyflower (Diplacus aurantiacus)
- Salal (Gaultheria shallon)
- California Buckeye (Aesculus californica)
- Showy Milkweed (Asclepias speciosa)
- Western Columbine (Aquilegia formosa)
- Black Sage (Salvia mellifera)
- Lemon Bee Balm (Monarda citriodora)
- Yellow Thistle (Cirsium horridulum)
- Crimsoneyed Rosemallow (Hibiscus moscheutos)
- Yellow Jewelweed (Impatiens pallida)
- Twinberry Honeysuckle (Lonicera involucrata)
- American Bellflower (Campanulastrum americanum)
- Crossvine (Bignonia capreolata)
- Chia (Salvia columbariae)
- Scarlet Gilia (Ipomopsis aggregata)
- White Turtlehead (Chelone glabra)