https://nativeyardatlas.com/tags/ecoregions/ Recent content in Ecoregions on NativeYardAtlas.com Hugo en-US Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://nativeyardatlas.com/landscape-goals/pennsylvania-keystone-plants-ecoregion/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://nativeyardatlas.com/landscape-goals/pennsylvania-keystone-plants-ecoregion/ <h1 id="pennsylvania-keystone-plants-for-pollinators-choose-by-ecoregion">Pennsylvania keystone plants for pollinators: choose by ecoregion</h1> <p>“Native to Pennsylvania” is a useful starting point, but it does not tell the whole story about wildlife value. Penn State Extension&rsquo;s <a href="https://extension.psu.edu/keystone-species-a-framework-for-selecting-native-plants">keystone-plant framework</a> describes plant and insect relationships at the ecoregion level. Pennsylvania spans the Northern Forests and Eastern Temperate Forests Level I ecoregions, with finer Level II regions inside them.</p> <p><img src="https://nativeyardatlas.com/landscape-goals/pennsylvania-keystone-plants-ecoregion/ecoregion-to-site-scale_hu_4e1aa164bc942e8d.webp" width="1600" height="800" alt="A broad forest landscape narrows to a local natural community and then to an individual garden bed." loading="lazy" decoding="async" sizes="(max-width: 560px) calc(100vw - 40px), (max-width: 720px) calc(100vw - 44px), (max-width: 850px) calc(100vw - 56px), (max-width: 1100px) 720px, (max-width: 1200px) calc(100vw - 360px), 840px" srcset="https://nativeyardatlas.com/landscape-goals/pennsylvania-keystone-plants-ecoregion/ecoregion-to-site-scale_hu_785bc2b706869470.webp 480w, https://nativeyardatlas.com/landscape-goals/pennsylvania-keystone-plants-ecoregion/ecoregion-to-site-scale_hu_4e1aa164bc942e8d.webp 1600w"></p>