🌿 Walla Walla Native Plants

🦋 Seeds for birds and squirrels; cavity nesting; larval host

🦋 Seeds for birds; cover

🦋 Cavity nesting; seeds for birds

🦋 Cover; seeds

🦋 Berry-cones for many bird species; critical winter cover and roosting

🦋 Cavity nesting; larval host for hundreds of moths and butterflies; beaver; bank stabilization

🦋 Larval host; cavity nesting; browse for deer/elk

🦋 Seeds for birds; cover; streamside habitat

🦋 Dark berries for many bird species; thorny nesting cover for small birds

🦋 Acorns for birds and mammals; supports 500+ insect species; exceptional keystone host

🦋 Small berries for many bird species; larval host for hackberry emperor butterfly

🦋 Keystone shrub-steppe species; essential for sage-obligate birds (sage thrasher, sage sparrow); browse for pronghorn and deer; winter cover for many species

🦋 Critical mule deer and pronghorn browse; pollinators; nitrogen-fixer

🦋 Critical late-season nectar for migrating monarch butterflies and native bees; seeds for birds

🦋 Late-season pollinators; seeds

🦋 Browse for deer and pronghorn; cover

🦋 Excellent winter browse for deer, pronghorn, and bighorn; cover

🦋 Berries for birds; hummingbirds visit flowers; small wildlife cover

🦋 Berries eaten by over 40 bird species; browse for deer; larval host; pollinators

🦋 Dark berries for 70+ bird species; larval host for many moths and butterflies including tiger swallowtail

🦋 Excellent pollinator plant; cover

🦋 Berries eaten by dozens of bird species and mammals; excellent pollinator plant

🦋 Hummingbirds; pollinators; berries for birds and mammals

🦋 White berries persist as winter bird food; larval host for hawkmoths; rhizomatous cover for small wildlife

🦋 Hips persist as winter bird food; pollinators; thorny thicket nesting cover

🦋 Large hips for birds; pollinators; dense nesting cover

🦋 Excellent pollinator plant; seeds for birds; larval host for several butterfly species

🦋 Pollinators; cover; peeling bark provides nest material

🦋 Dense red berry clusters persist as winter bird food; larval host for several butterfly species; deer browse

🦋 Nitrogen-fixer; pollinators; browse; seeds persist for birds

🦋 Blue berries for birds; early pollinator nectar

🦋 Red berries for birds and bears; pollinators

🦋 White berries for many bird species; larval host; bright red winter stems provide visual cover cues for birds

🦋 Enormous larval host value — hundreds of moth and butterfly species; browse for deer; critical bank stabilization

🦋 Major early spring pollinator plant; seeds eaten by birds; browse; larval host

🦋 Early spring pollinators; feathery seed plumes provide nesting material

🦋 Critical early-season nectar and pollen for native bees; larval host for anise swallowtail butterfly

🦋 Early pollinator nectar; anise swallowtail larval host

🦋 Early spring pollinators

🦋 Early spring pollinators including solitary bees

🦋 Long-tongued butterflies and bumble bees

🦋 Excellent early native bee plant; important pollen source

🦋 Major pollinator plant; historically critical First Foods plant for Indigenous peoples of the Columbia Plateau

🦋 Pollinators; seeds eaten by birds

🦋 Pollinators; seeds

🦋 Excellent plant for beneficial insects (parasitic wasps, hoverflies); larval host; seeds for birds

🦋 Nitrogen-fixer; larval host for many blue butterflies; bumble bees; seeds for birds

🦋 Nitrogen-fixer; larval host for Boisduval's blue and other butterfly species

🦋 Major pollinator plant; seeds for birds; long bloom season

🦋 Pollinators; larval host; seeds for birds

🦋 Essential hummingbird plant; hawkmoths; pollinator nectar

🦋 Specialist native bees (Diadasia spp.); pollinators

🦋 Specialist native bees; pollinators

🦋 Obligate monarch butterfly larval host; major pollinator nectar plant; visited by bumble bees, native bees, butterflies

🦋 Major pollinator plant; hummingbirds; bumble bees; butterflies

🦋 Major butterfly and pollinator plant; larval host for several hairstreak and copper butterflies; seeds for birds

🦋 Pollinators; larval host

🦋 Important late-season nectar for bees and butterflies; larval host

🦋 Pollinators

🦋 Pollinators, especially bees

🦋 Major native bee plant; excellent pollen source

🦋 Hummingbirds; bumble bees; long-tongued bees

🦋 Bees; hummingbirds

🦋 Bumble bees; hummingbirds

🦋 Pollinators, especially native bees

🦋 Pollinators

🦋 Pollinators

🦋 Critical late-season pollinator nectar; supports migrating monarchs and native bees preparing for winter

🦋 Larval host for many skipper butterflies; seeds for birds and small mammals; critical nesting cover

🦋 Seeds for birds; nesting cover; larval host

🦋 Seeds; early green-up for wildlife

🦋 Seeds; cover

🦋 Cover; nesting; seeds for birds and mammals

🦋 Seeds; cover

🦋 Seeds; larval host for skippers

🦋 Seeds; cover; larval host

🦋 Cover; nesting for marsh birds; bank stabilization

🦋 Cover; nesting

🦋 Pollinators; fluffy seed heads for nesting material; cover

🦋 Berries for many bird and mammal species; pollinators; larval host for several butterfly species

🦋 Cover for small mammals and amphibians

🦋 Cover; larval host