Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center lists special value to native bees; the abundant early flowers feed ground- and small-bodied native bees emerging in early spring.
Small native sweat bees are typical early-spring visitors to mass-flowering Prunus; consistent with the documented Special Value to Native Bees, though not named individually by the source.
Lasioglossum sweat bees work the cup-shaped flowers heavily; the image used here documents Lasioglossum calceatum visiting a California poppy bloom at Munich Botanical Garden. The cup architecture suits short-tongued sweat bees particularly well.
Small sweat bees in the Lasioglossum genus visit the tiny ray florets in dense numbers; yarrow flower-head architecture supports both large and small bee species concurrently.
The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, citing the Xerces Society Pollinator Program, lists Opuntia humifusa as having special value to native bees; small sweat bees (Lasioglossum spp.) are among the native bees that forage the abundant pollen of the open yellow flowers.
Small sweat bees commonly visit strawberry flowers for pollen. NC State Extension records a specialized native Andrena bee (A. melanochroa) on this plant; absent a matching catalog entry for that genus, small ground-nesting bees are represented here by Lasioglossum.
The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center records special value to native bees. The shallow open umbels are well matched to short-tongued spring bees such as small sweat bees (Lasioglossum), which work the accessible pollen and nectar early in the season.
NC State notes the Physalis genus supports specialized native bees; small sweat bees such as Lasioglossum are among the generalist visitors that forage pollen from the open yellow flowers. Mapped at plausible confidence — the toolbox states a genus-level bee association, not a species-specific record for Physalis pruinosa.
The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center flags Helianthus tuberosus as of Special Value to Native Bees; small native sweat bees (Lasioglossum spp.) are among the generalist native bees that forage such late-summer composite sunflowers, mapped here as the closest catalog representative of that documented native-bee value.
Carries the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center "special value to native bees" flag; small native sweat bees (Lasioglossum and relatives) work the spring flowers for pollen.