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Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
Once common across eastern North America, now almost gone. It feeds on wild bergamot and asters, flowers any yard can grow.
⚠ Supports a species at riskWho this brings back
Supports 5 species at risk.
Once common across eastern North America, now almost gone. It feeds on wild bergamot and asters, flowers any yard can grow.
An endangered bee that depends on the same native blooms its host bees need. Plant for one, help both.
A bird that once nested on every farm, now threatened. Native plants feed the flying insects it catches on the wing.
It needs goldenrod and asters to fatten up before winter. The late-summer blooms most gardens are missing.
Our native ladybugs are being pushed out. Native plants give them aphids to hunt and cover to overwinter.
Where it grows
Moist meadows, open shorelines, and roadsides.
Other plants the Rusty-patched Bumble Bee needs