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Top native heathers

9 species, native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

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9 native plants

Sun and shade

Light

Full sun 2 Part shade 2 Full shade 2

Soil and water

Moisture

Dry 1 Moist 1

Soil pH

Acid 1

Form

Plant type

Shrub 182 Perennial 179 Poisonous 22 Tree 16 Edible 14 Ground cover 9 Wildflower 9 Herbaceous perennial 3 Vine 1
  • Ghost Pipe Monotropa uniflora caterpillars 3 food 3 flowers 10
  • Pinesap Monotropa hypopitys food 4 flowers 2
  • One-flowered Wintergreen Moneses uniflora food 4
  • Snowplant Sarcodes sanguinea flowers 4
  • Woodland Pinedrops Pterospora andromedea flowers 1
  • Sugarstick Allotropa virgata
  • Gnome Plant Hemitomes congestum
  • Fringed Pinesap Pleuricospora fimbriolata
  • Sweet Pinesap Monotropsis odorata

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