Attracting Wild Birds - Native Plants

There are many beautiful plants, shrubs and trees that are native to our area. Planting these not only makes your yard beautiful, but it will also make it attractive to resident and migrating birds.

Trees

Fruit Trees

Summer Fruit Producers

• Black Cherry
• Wild Red Cherry
• Red Mulberry

Fall Fruit Producers

• American Mountain Ash

Winter Fruit Producers

• Hackberry
• Crab Apple
• Eastern Red Cedar
• Hawthorns

Seed Trees

• Maples
• Ashes
• Birches
• Tamarack

Shelter Trees

• Eastern Red Cedar
• White Spruce
• Eastern Hemlock

Cavity Trees

• Quaking Aspen
• Eastern Cottonwood
• Oaks
• Willows
• Ashes

Nut Trees

• White Oak
• Bur Oak
• Northern Red Oak

Shrubs

Early Summer Berry Producers

• Serviceberry
• Juneberry
• Downy Serviceberry
• Chokecherry

Midsummer Berry Producers

• Blackberries
• Raspberries
• Blueberries
• Gooseberries
• American Elderberry

Fall Berry Producers

• Pagoda Dogwood
• Red-osier dogwood
• Silky dogwood
• Gray dogwood
• Viburnums species

Winter berry Producers

• Winterberry
• Sumac
• Roses

Shrubs for nesting

• Alder
• American Elderberry
• Roses
• Willows
• Ninebark

Shrubs for shelter

• Common Juniper

Shrubs for Seeds

• Speckled Alder
• Green Alder

Vines

Fall and Winter Fruit Producers

• American Bittersweet
• Grapes
• Virginia Creeper
• Grape Woodbine
• Greenbriar

Wildflowers

• Aster
• Coreopsis
• Purple Coneflower (Echinacea)
• Joe-pye Weed
• Sunflowers
• Blazing Stars
• Black-eyed Susans
• Goldenrods
• Milkweed
• Cupplants
• Wild Indigo
• Ironweed

Perrennial wildflowers and vines for hummingbirds

• Trumpet Honeysuckle
• Columbine
• Butterfly Weed
• Spotted Jewelweed (Impatiens Capensis)
• Cardinal Flower
• Wild Bergamot
• Lupine
• Penstemon
• Phlox
• Carpet Bugle (groundcover)
• Butterfly bush

Annuals wildflowers and vines for hummingbirds

• Red and Purple Salvia
• Fuchsia
• Lantana
• Pentagon
• Zinnia