Long-blooming native plants
Most natives flower for two to three weeks and then get on with the year. These bloom for four months or more — the plants that carry a bed between the big seasonal handoffs, and that keep pollinators fed through the midsummer lull when little else is open. A few of these anchoring a planting buy you room to grow short-lived spectacular things around them.
Bedfellow lists 751 of these.
The 30 most-observed are listed here — see all 751 in search.
- Common Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
- Creosote Bush (Larrea tridentata)
- Tufted Evening Primrose (Oenothera caespitosa)
- Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica)
- Sensitive Fern (Onoclea sensibilis)
- California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica)
- Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)
- Selfheal (Prunella vulgaris)
- Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa)
- Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum)
- Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis)
- Black Cherry (Prunus serotina)
- Trumpet Creeper (Campsis radicans)
- Partridgeberry (Mitchella repens)
- Firewheel (Gaillardia pulchella)
- White Snakeroot (Ageratina altissima)
- Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)
- Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)
- Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida)
- Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica)
- American Basswood (Tilia americana)
- American Holly (Ilex opaca)
- Toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia)
- California Buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum)
- Coyote Brush (Baccharis pilularis)
- Ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens)
- Pink Evening Primrose (Oenothera speciosa)
- Blue Dicks (Dichelostemma capitatum)
- Eastern Red Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
- Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis)