Cardinal Flower: The Native Hummingbird Plant Every Eastern Garden Needs

Most people who plant cardinal flower think of it as a hummingbird attractor. That framing is accurate, but incomplete. The ruby-throated hummingbird doesn t visit cardinal flower because it s a pretty red flower that happens to be nearby. It visits because these two species have co-evolved over millions of years into something that functions almost like a contract: the flower provides The post…