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GrowNativePlants Plant Directory

Colletes compactus

Colletes compactus native bee

Cellophane bees, widespread.

3 documented plant relationships.

sips nectar at

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Purple-stemmed Tall Aster (Swamp Aster)Symphyotrichum puniceumwildflower · August–September

(c) Matt Lavin, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

RabbitbrushEricameria nauseosashrub · August-October

gathers pollen at

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Water SmartweedPersicaria amphibiawildflower · June–September