My brother’s yard which slopes down to an inlet of the ocean and has boggy areas has native plants galore. Interestingly, rattlesnake master, originally indigenous to prairie-like ecosystems in the eastern U S, flourishes in those beds but as long as it has good sun can happily grow in a variety of soils. It has tall, maybe four feet, stalks that holds flower heads, usually a handful on well-established plants. Each inflorescence has over a hundred tiny flowers providing both nectar and pollen for insects. Many people get most excited about butterflies on their pollinator plants, but Eryngium yuccafolium, flowering late summer, perhaps attracts a larger diversity of visitors than almost any other insect magnet. According to the Xerces society website --bumble bees, yellow-faced bees, sweet bees, multiple beetles and dozens of fly species.
One plant, many pollinators
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