BEE CITY EVANSVILLE
In 2025, Keep Evansville Beautiful partnered with the city of Evansville and University of Southern Indiana to make Evansville a Bee City USA Affiliate. They have since brought on new partners from across the community to promote this initiative.
ABOUT BEE CITY USA
Thinking globally and acting locally, Bee City USA provides a framework for communities to work together to conserve native pollinators by increasing the abundance of native plants, providing nest sites, and reducing the use of pesticides.
Bee City USA affiliates make commitments to conserve native pollinators, laid out in a resolution adopted by the local city council. City staff and community members work together to carry out these commitments and make their city a better place for pollinators. Incorporated cities, towns, counties, and communities across the United States are invited to make these commitments and become Bee City USA affiliates.
THE BUZZ BEGINS
THE BEELINE NEWSLETTER
A bee-centric plant list for Southwestern Indiana
Herbaceous Plants
- Nodding Onion
- Anise Hyssop
- Eastern Bluestar
- Eastern Columbine
- Marsh Milkweed
- Butterflyweed
- False Indigo
- Yellow False Indigo
- Downy Woodmint
- False Aster
- Poppy Mallow
- White Turtlehead
- Pink Turtlehead
- Tall Coreopsis
- Whorled Tickseed
- Lance-leaved Coreopsis
- Pale Coneflower
- Purple Coneflower
- Rattlesnake Master
- Joe-Pye-Weed
- Queen of the Prairie
- Cranesbill
- Swamp Sunflower
- Woodland Sunflower
- Western Sunflower
- Smooth Oxeye
- Rosemallow
- Alumroot
- Dwarf Crested Iris
- Southern Blueflag
- Prairie Blazing Star
- Dense Blazing Star
- Cardinal Flower
- Great Blue Lobelia
- Virginia Bluebells
- Beebalm
- Wild Bergamot
- Wild Quinine
- Beardtongue
- Woodland Phlox
- Garden Phlox
- Obedient Plant
- Virginia Mountain Mint
- Clustered Mountain Mint
- Orange Coneflower
- Missouri Coneflower
- Sweet Coneflower
- Harry Wild Petunia
- Lyre-Leaf Sage
- Wild Senna
- Royal Catchfly
- Prairie Dock
- Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
- Autumn Goldenrod
- New York Aster
- Aromatic Aster
- Ohio Spiderwort
- Smooth Ironweed
- Missouri Ironweed
- Culver’s Root
- Bird’s Foot Violet
- Golden Alexanders
Non-native Plants for Pollinators
- Hollyhocks
- Flowering Onions
- Squashes
- Fennel
- Common Sunflower
- Lavenders
- Mints
- Catmints
- Oreganos
- Parsley
- Sages
- Stonecrops
- Mexican Sunflower
- Speedwell
- Zinnia
Sedge and Grass Companion Plants
- Common Wood Sedge
- Pennsylvania Sedge
- Palm Sedge
- Eastern Star Sedge
- Switchgrass
- Little Bluestem
- Prairie Dropseed
Herbaceous Vines
- Groundnut
- Maypop
Woody Vines
- Wooly Pipevine
- Crossvine
- Coral Honeysuckle
- American Wisteria
Shrubs
- False Indigo
- Red Chokeberry
- Black Chokeberry
- New Jersey Tea
- Buttonbush
- Sweet Pepperbush
- Gray Dogwood
- Vernal Witch Hazel
- Common Witch Hazel
- Smooth Hydrangea
- Oakleaf Hydrangea
- Golden St. John’s Wort
- Shrubby St. John’s Wort
- Inkberry
- Winterberry
- Sweetspire
- Spicebush
- Ninebark
- Fragrant Sumac
- Pasture Rose
- Purple Flowering Raspberry
- Pussywillow
- Streambank Willow
- Elderberry
- Highbush Blueberry
- Mapleleaf Viburnum
- Nannyberry
- Arrowwood Viburnum
Small Trees
- Downy Serviceberry
- Allegheny Serviceberry
- Eastern Redbud
- Flowering Dogwood
- Roughleaf Dogwood
- Cockspur Hawthorn
- Washington Hawthorn
- Green Hawthorn
- Carolina Silverbell
- Possumhaw
- Crabapple
- Goose Plum
- Virginia Bird Cherry
- Black Haw
Larger Trees
- Red Maple
- Sugar Maple
- Yellowwood
- American Holly
- Tuliptree
- Cucumber Magnolia
- Sweetbay Magnolia
- Black Gum
- Black Cherry
- American Basswood
