The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center flags Tilia americana as having special value to honey bees; basswood is a noted nectar (honey) source, and Missouri Botanical Garden lists the fragrant June flowers as attracting bees.
The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center flags American persimmon as having Special Value to Honey Bees, which visit the small urn-shaped flowers for nectar.
The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center lists the fragrant early-spring flowers as having special value to honey bees.
Listed by the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center as having special value to honey bees — a strong nectar plant whose common alternate name "anise hyssop" reflects its long use as a bee forage.
The fragrant early-spring flowers offer nectar and pollen to honey bees and other early-season foragers; bee visitation improves apricot fruit set.
The NC State Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox lists the flowers as attractive to bees and states they provide a fall nectar source — valuable when little else is blooming.
Avocado bears perfect greenish-yellow flowers in panicles (Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder); honey bees are the principal managed pollinator of commercial avocado orchards, where the dichogamous bloom relies on insect movement between flowers in opposite stages. Listed as plausible because the MBG species page documents the flowers but not the specific bee visitors.
The large fragrant flowers with a nectar guide (the beard) are visited by bees for nectar; this is a general pollination-ecology inference rather than a documented species record on the cited horticultural sources.
The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center flags black cherry as having Special Value to Honey Bees; the fragrant white spring bloom is a recognized nectar source.
Tupelo honey from the southeastern US (Florida + Georgia) is a recognized premium varietal — among the most-prized monofloral honeys.
The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center flags black willow as a Special Value to Honey Bees — its early-spring catkins are one of the first abundant pollen and nectar sources of the season.
The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center records blue vervain as a nectar source attractive to bees and butterflies in sunny meadow and prairie gardens.
Honey bees readily work the abundant small spring flowers; mapped as a plausible nectar forager alongside the documented native-bee value.
Honey bees work the abundant late-summer nectar of the white flower clusters; boneset is a well-documented honey-plant of wet meadows and a nectar source per the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.
Borage is a renowned honey-bee forage plant; Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder and NC State Extension both document it attracting bees, and it is commonly interplanted to draw honey bees to the garden.
NC State Extension lists Calendula as attracting pollinators generally; its open, abundant flowerheads are readily worked by honey bees and other generalist bees, though the sources do not name a specific bee species.
Honey bees forage the funnel-shaped yellow flowers for nectar and pollen and are a primary pollinator of melons; NC State Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox documents that the plant attracts bees and pollinators.
NC State Extension lists Nepeta x faassenii as attracting "Bees, Pollinators"; honey bees are among the most frequent visitors to its long succession of nectar-rich lavender-blue flowers.
NC State Extension lists the nectar- and pollen-rich white umbels as attracting bees; honey bees readily work the open carrot-family flowers when the plant is allowed to bloom.
Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder lists the fragrant white flower racemes as attracting butterflies and the plant as bee-visited; honey bees forage the open, accessible spring bloom though the sources do not name the species.
When allowed to bolt, the open white umbels are readily worked by honey bees and other small generalist foragers for nectar and pollen — a common reason gardeners let a few cilantro plants flower.
Honey bees visit comfrey flowers and, with their shorter tongues, often take nectar through robbing holes bitten at the base of the corolla rather than entering the flower mouth.
NC State Extension notes the spring flowers attract bees for nectar; the honey bee is a representative generalist visitor (the documented specialist visitors are native Andrena mining bees, which are not yet in the Plotwright wildlife catalog).
NC State Extension Plant Toolbox lists the early-spring flowers as attracting bees; the European honey bee is a common visitor to hyacinth spikes for nectar in late winter to spring.
Thyme honey is a recognized monofloral product from Mediterranean regions; bees work the small tubular flowers heavily.
NC State Extension documents Zinnia elegans attracting bees and pollinators; honey bees forage the disc florets for nectar and pollen across the long summer-to-frost bloom.
NC State Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox notes daffodil flowers attract pollinators and provide nectar that is particularly valuable in early spring; honey bees are among the generalist visitors of open early-spring blooms.
Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder lists dahlias as attracting butterflies; open-centered forms also offer accessible nectar and pollen to honey bees, though fully double cultivars provide little forage.
The yellow umbels attract bees among a broad suite of beneficial insects (Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder; NC State Plant Toolbox), foraging the shallow, accessible flowers for nectar and pollen.
As one of the earliest spring blooms, Crocus vernus offers nectar and pollen to honey bees foraging on warm late-winter and early-spring days. Missouri Botanical Garden documents the flower form and bloom timing but does not formally list pollinator attraction, so this is recorded as plausible rather than documented.
Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder flags the fragrant, showy spring flowers as attracting butterflies; pear blossoms are an insect-pollinated Rosaceae bloom, so honey bees foraging nectar and pollen are a plausible visitor though MBG does not name bees specifically.
The showy yellow umbels attract bees and other beneficial insects for nectar and pollen (NC State Plant Toolbox).
Open-flowered single and semi-double heads of this Asteraceae annual offer accessible nectar and pollen to honey bees; Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder rates the flowers as showy and fragrant. Density of doubling reduces access in the most fully double cultivars.
Lettuce flowers (rarely seen in productive gardens since gardeners harvest before bolt) are visited by honeybees + small bees when present; not a significant wildlife-support plant compared to ornamental natives.
NC State Plant Toolbox documents garden mum flowers as a welcome late-season nectar source in a pollinator garden; open single- and semi-double forms give honey bees and other generalist foragers accessible late-fall nectar and pollen.
Honeybees opportunistically visit pepper flowers for nectar; pollination is not required for fruit set but can increase yield + fruit size.
The spring white flowers offer nectar and pollen to honey bees and other bees; bee visitation improves strawberry fruit set, size, and shape because each achene on the aggregate fruit needs its ovule pollinated. NC State Extension lists Fragaria × ananassa as attracting pollinators.
The NC State Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox lists Gardenia jasminoides as attracting bees and pollinators. Note that fully double ornamental forms offer reduced floral rewards compared with single-flowered types.
Basil is typically pinched to suppress flowering for leaf production, so flower-driven wildlife relationships are uncommon in cultivation; when allowed to flower the spikes do attract small bees.
NC State Extension lists Gladiolus flowers as attracting bees; mapped here to the honey bee as the representative generalist visitor. The source states "bees" generically rather than naming Apis mellifera, hence plausible rather than documented.
Honey bees forage the open thistle flowers for nectar and pollen on plants left to bloom; like all the flower-visitor value here, this is contingent on not harvesting the bud.
The NC State Plant Toolbox lists the highly fragrant white flowers as attracting bees; citrus blossom is a well-known honey-bee nectar source.
The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center lists the spring flowers as a nectar source for bees, with Special Value to Native Bees flagged by The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation.
The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center records the late-spring flowers as a nectar source for bees; honey locust is a recognized nectar/honey plant where it is abundant.
Citrus flowers are richly nectar- and pollen-bearing and are a well-known honeybee forage; key lime blossoms draw foraging honeybees in bloom.
Brassica oleracea is harvested for leaves before bolting in most kitchen-garden use, so kale flower-pollinator relationships are uncommon; overwintered plants that bolt to yellow flowers in spring attract bees briefly.
Citrus is a classic honey-bee nectar and pollen source, and honey bees are the primary insect pollinators of lemon flowers; Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder advises moving indoor plants outdoors in late spring "to encourage natural pollination" by visiting insects.
A classic bee plant — the summer flowers are a documented nectar source for honey bees; the genus name Melissa is Greek for "honey bee." NC State Extension lists the plant as attracting pollinators.
The Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder lists the flowers as nectar-producing and butterfly-attracting; honey bees forage the accessible central nectar but are less effective pollinators than the larger carpenter bees the flower is built for.
The showy, fragrant, nectar-spurred flowers draw bees alongside the hummingbirds and butterflies the Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder documents; honey bees are a likely visitor where present, though the deep spur favors longer-tongued pollinators.
OkraAbelmoschus esculentus
The showy hibiscus-like flowers are visited by honey bees for nectar and pollen; okra is self-fertile, so this is supplemental rather than required for pod set.
The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center records the flowers as a nectar source for insects; bees forage the creamy-yellow flower clusters during the rare flowering event.
NC State Plant Toolbox lists Prunus persica as attracting pollinators; the early pink spring flowers offer nectar and pollen to honey bees and other bees before most other forage is available.
Honey bees visit the orange-red summer flowers for nectar and pollen and contribute to the cross-pollination that increases fruit set.
Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder lists quince under "Attracts: Butterflies" for its showy spring flowers; as an open, five-petaled insect-pollinated Rosaceae bloom it is a plausible nectar and pollen source for honey bees, though MBG does not name bees specifically.
When radish is allowed to bolt, its white-to-pale-violet Brassicaceae flowers are worked by honey bees and other bees — radish is insect-pollinated and self-incompatible. Not relevant to a root harvest, since the crop is pulled long before flowering.
NC State Extension lists Allium tricoccum as attracting pollinators; its late-spring white umbels offer nectar and pollen to bees during the gap after most spring ephemerals have finished. Mapped to the honey bee as a representative generalist flower-visitor; specific visitor records for this species are limited.
Rosemary honey is a recognized Mediterranean varietal.
The NC State Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox documents that the flowers attract bees; the long midsummer-to-autumn bloom provides nectar when many spring forage plants are spent.
The open, flat-faced composite flower heads offer accessible nectar and pollen; honey bees are common generalist visitors to daisy-family blooms, though the Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder documents only butterfly attraction explicitly.
The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center flags Special Value to Honey Bees; Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder notes the flowers are attractive to bees.
Goldenrod honey is a recognized regional product across the central and eastern United States.
NC State Extension lists the summer flowers as attracting bees; the small lilac-to-white flowers are a nectar source for honey bees when the plant is allowed to bloom.
The profuse fragrant flowers are a well-known nectar source for honey bees and other small bees; NC State Extension lists the plant as attracting pollinators.
The fragrant April flowers are worked by bees, which carry out the cross-pollination this largely self-incompatible species needs; Missouri Botanical Garden lists the flowers as attracting butterflies.
Both the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center (special value to honey bees) and NC State Extension (nectar attracts honeybees) document honey bees foraging the spring bloom.
NC State notes joe-pye weed flowers "are important for the production of honey" — late-summer joe-pye honey is a recognized regional product.
NC State Extension documents that flowering marjoram provides late-season nectar for bees and lists the plant as attracting bees.
Honey bees forage nectar and pollen from the fragrant citrus blossoms; orange groves are a classic nectar source and the origin of commercial orange-blossom honey. (Apis mellifera is an introduced European species, not a North American native.)
Tulip tree honey is a recognized regional product across the southeastern US; the abundant late-spring nectar supports commercial apiaries during the late-spring nectar gap.
TurnipBrassica rapa (Rapifera Group)
When a turnip is allowed to bolt or flower in its second year, the yellow cruciferous blooms of Brassica rapa offer nectar and pollen to honey bees and other generalist bees. This is incidental to growing turnips for the root, which is usually harvested before flowering.
Early-spring willow catkins are a well-known nectar and pollen source for honey bees; Salix babylonica blooms in April-May (Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder).
NC State Extension reports the flower nectar attracts bees; the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center flags the species as a nectar source. (Honey bee is the closest cataloged generalist bee; native and bumble bees are the primary documented visitors.)
Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder documents that the flowers are attractive to bees; white clover is one of the most important honey-bee nectar plants in lawns and pastures.
Early-spring cherry blossom is a well-known nectar and pollen source for honey bees; Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder names butterflies specifically rather than bees, so the bee association is plausible rather than directly published for this species.