Plants are one of the healthiest and most helpful ways to attract and support a wide variety of birds. In this colorful easy-reference guide, birding expert Laura Erickson details the 100 best native plants for providing food and habitat to backyard and migrating birds across North America.
Plants are one of the healthiest and most helpful ways to attract and support a wide variety of birds. In this colorful easy-reference guide, birding expert Laura Erickson details the 100 best native plants for providing food and habitat to backyard and migrating birds across North America.
Laura Erickson is the author of The Love Lives of Birds and The Bird Watching Answer Book, and is coauthor of Into the Nest. A recipient of the American Birding Association’s prestigious Roger Tory Peterson award, she has served as science editor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, an editor of Bird Scope magazine, and a columnist and contributing editor for Birdwatching magazine. She produces For the Birds, a long-running public radio program and podcast, and lives in Duluth, Minnesota.
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Part 1: Creating Habitat Bird-Attracting Features of Different Plants Part 2: Plants That Support Birds Conifers Bald Cypress Cedar, Juniper Cypress Douglas-fir Fir Hemlock Pine Spruce Tamarack, Larch Broadleaf Trees Alder Aspen, Cottonwood Basswood Beech Birch Cherry Crabapple Desert Willow Hackberry Hickory, Pecan Madrone Maple, Boxelder Mountain Ash, Dogberry, Rowan Mulberry Oak Redbud Sycamore Tupelo Walnut Willow Grasses Bluestem Indiangrass Little Bluestern Sideoats Grama Spartina, Cordgrass Switchgrass, Panic Grass Vetch Herbaceous Plants Aster Beebalm Black-eyed Susan Blanketflower Blazing Star California Fuchsia Cardinal Flower Columbine Cup Plant, Compass Plant, Rosinweed Fireweed Goldenrod Hyssop Iris Ironweed Jewelweed Joe-Pye Weed Lily Lupine Mexican Hat Milkweed Penstemon, Beardtongue Phlox Purple Coneflower Rocky Mountain Bee Plant Salvia Strawberry Sunflower Thistle Violet Wild Geranium Plants That Grow on Trees Lichen Mistletoe Spanish Moss Shrubs Beautyberry Blackberry, Raspberry Blueberry Buttonbush Coralberry, Snowberry Crowberry Desert-thorn, Wolfberry Dogwood Elderberry Hawthorn Hazelnut Holly Honeysuckle Leadplant Manzanita, Bearberry Rhododendron, Azalea Rose Sagebrush Saw Palmetto Serviceberry, Juneberry, Shadblow Sumac Viburnum Wax Myrtle, Bayberry Vines Clematis Trumpet Vine Virginia Creeper, Woodbine Wild Grape Cactus and Yucca Cholla and Prickly Pear Hedgehog Cactus Ocotillo Yocca, Joshua Tree Favorite Plants of Common North American Birds North American Native Plant Societies Index
