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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.
The bees it relies on need these same native blooms. Plant for one, and you feed 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.
Photos: Photo by Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Photo by Malene Thyssen, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Photo by Judy Gallagher, CC BY 2.0 · Photo by Hectonichus, CC BY-SA 3.0
Where it grows
Moist meadows, open shorelines, and roadsides.
Other plants the Rusty-patched Bumble Bee needs