Plant list
A list of the plants at Moth Garden that are particularly beneficial to moths and other nocturnal pollinators
Calico Aster
Heart Leafed Aster
Large Leafed Aster
Smooth Blue Aster
Blue Wild Indigo
White Wild indigo
Smooth Beardtongue
Pearly Everlasting
Wild Bergamont
Spotted Bee Balm
Common Milkweed
Dense Blazing Star
American Harebell
Wild Lupin
Mountain Mint
Culvers Root
Pale Purple Coneflower
Common Yarrow
White Turtlehead
Wild Quinine
Narrow-Leaved Vervain
Hoary Vervain
Wild Columbine
Evening Primrose
SHRUBS & TREES:
Black Chokeberry
Meadow Rose
Nannyberry
Serviceberry
Spicebush
Fragrant Sumac
New Jersey Tea
Virgin’s Bower
Red Oak
Symphyotrichum lateriflorum
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
Eurybia macrophylla
Symphyotrichum laeve
Baptisia australis
Baptisia alba
Penstemon laevigatus
Anaphalis margaritacea
Monarda fistulosa
Monarda punctata
Asclepias syriaca
Liatris spicata
Campanula rotundifolia
Lupinus perennis
Pycnanthemum virginianum
Veronicastrum virginicum
Echinacea pallida
Achillea millefolium
Chelone glabra
Parthenium integrifolium
Verbena simplex
Verbena stricta
Aquilegia canadensis
Oenothera biennis
Aronia melanocarpa
Rosa blanda
Viburnum lentago
Amelanchier canadensis
Lindera benzoin
Rhus aromatica
Ceanothus americanus
Clematis virginiana
Quercus rubra
Moth Garden grows on land that is the ancestral home of the Chonnonton, the Anishinaabe, and the Haudenosaunee peoples and the Between the Lakes Treaty territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit.
The Moth Garden project gratefully acknowledges support from the Canada Council for the Arts, Eramosa Herbals, OPIRG, ParkPeople, Pollination Guelph, Art Gallery of Guelph, CEDaR Lab, and the Culture and Animals Foundation.