Image Licensing
Plant photography on this site is sourced from Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons (CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA) or public-domain licenses, cleared for commercial use. Thank you to the photographers below. A few cards use a closely-related stand-in where no free photo of the exact cultivar exists; those are noted. We're gradually replacing these with our own field photos.
Host-count data. The “insect species hosted” figure on each plant card combines two research datasets, scoped to North Carolina / the eastern United States: native butterfly & moth (caterpillar) host counts from the National Wildlife Federation Native Plant Finder (Douglas Tallamy & Kimberly Shropshire’s research; for keystone genera such as asters, goldenrods and sunflowers we use NWF’s regional Keystone Plants: Eastern Temperate Forests figure), plus pollen-specialist (oligolectic) native bees from Fowler & Droege, Pollen Specialist Bees of the Eastern United States. These figures are genus-level, so plants in the same genus share a count. A handful of specialty species have no documented figure in either dataset and carry no host tag, which reflects gaps in the data, not the absence of wildlife value.