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Massachusetts Native Plants and Polinator Gardens: Plants Birds Love

Plants Fruit-Eating Birds Love
American Holly (winter) Black Cherry (late summer)  
Black Tupelo Crabapples (e.g. Malus x Zumi) fruits in winter, flowers attract spring migrants
Dogwoods (4 native species) Mulberry (summer)
Pokeweed (late summer/fall)  Viburnums (summer; 3-4 native species)
Virginia Creeper (late summer/fall)  Winterberry & Inkberry hollies (winter)

 

Plants Seed-Eating Birds Love
Oak, Beech, American Hazelnut Asters & Goldenrods 
Birches Conifers
Evening primrose 

Native grasses (various)

 

Plants Hummingbirds Love
Beebalms, Monarda didyma (and other Monarda spp.) Cardinal Flower, Lobelia cardinalis
Giant Hyssop, Agastache foeniculum Trumpet honeysuckle, Lonicera sempirvirens
Wild Columbine, Aquilegia canadensis