Wildflowers

The Sanctuary has many beautiful flowering plants. They are favorites of birds, butterflies and bees. Most have been “planted” by migrating songbirds.

Velvet Leaf

seeds are eaten by birds

Wild Mustard

Butterflies and bunnies like this

White Wood Aster

migrating birds like these

Trumpet Creeper

Favorite of hummingbirds

Spotted Wintergreen

food for birds

Carolina Allspice

fragrant flowers, birds like fruit

Bull Thistle

food & nectar source for butterflies

Queen’s Ann Lace

or Wild carrot

food to birds & butterflies

Lanced-leaved Coreopsis

songbirds love these

Deptford Pink

classic coastal plant

birds like seeds

Hyssop-leaved thoroughwort or boneset

Wild Geranium

birds eat ripening seeds

Morning Glory

hummingbirds love these

Pineweed

songbird food

Sheep laurel

Poisonous to sheep

Virginia Mountain Mint

uncommon in

Cape May County

Mountain Laurel

PA state flower

food for birds & mammals

Wild Lettuce

food for birds & small mammals

Korean lespedeza

attracts birds

Butter & Eggs

produces 500,000 seeds birds love them

Staggerbush

extinct in Connecticut

fruit & flowers for wildlife

Yellow Sweet Clover

attractive to bees, butterflies & birds

False Lilly-of-the-Valley

attractive to songbirds

Starry champion

hummingbirds & butterflies like these

Blue-eyed grass

Cardinals, song sparrows, house finches eat the seed.

New York Ironweed

bees, butterflies & butterflies like these

Maple leaf viburnum

This plant is attractive to bees, butterflies & birds

Southern Arrowwood

Fresh water wetlands plant

bees, butterflies & birds

Slender vetch

not native to New Jersey

Indian Pipe

contains no chlorophyll

Evening hyacinth

flowers open at night

Yellow Wood Sorrel

Mourning doves like seeds

Wildflowers