Douglas Aster is a superb pollinator plant. An Oregon State University study looking at native plants and native pollinators found that Douglas Aster attracted the highest diversity of visiting bee species, as well as, the highest abundance of visiting bees compared to the other native flowers in the study.
Goldenrod is another superb pollinator plant. The lovely yellow flowers attract all manner of bees, but is particularly attractive to native wasps. Native wasps are not aggressive to people, and are powerful allies in the garden as they feed on garden pests!
Blanket Flowers is a wonderful late blooming, highly drought tolerant, inland perennial. This lovely flower often continues to bloom through the first couple of late Fall - early Winter hard frosts before finally going dormant.
Seaside Daisy is an invaluable low growing ground cover for the maritime West Coast! In it's native range it's evergreen and when happy will spread out to ~2' wide and will be covered in flowers from May- August. I've had my plants continue to produce flowers into October!
Here are some perennial native plants that have seeds without any germination requirements!
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