Songbirds can be attracted to your yard by a diverse group of woody and non-woody plants and play an important role in seed dispersal.  Below is a listing of plants that attract wild birds.  Check with your local botanical garden or garden center before planting to make sure the plants are native to your locale and will grow well in your area.

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American Goldfinch

Woody Plants: Alder, birch, cedar, and elm
Non-woody Plants: Annuals

American Robin

Woody Plants: Dogwood, honeysuckle, juniper, and mulberry
Non-woody Plants:

Baltimore Oriole

Woody Plants: Cherry, mulberry, and raspberry
Non-woody Plants:

Black-capped Chickadee

Woody Plants: Bayberry, blackberry, blueberry, cherry, honeysuckle, and tulip tree
Non-woody Plants: Goldenrod and ragweed

Black-headed Grosbeak

Woody Plants: Apricot, blackberry, cherry, crab apple, elderberry, fig, juneberry, mulberry, and prune
Non-woody Plants: Alfilaria, bur clover, catchfly, chickweed, cranesbill, dock, milk thistle, pigweed, red maids, smartweed, and strawberry

Blue Jay

Woody Plants: Beech, chestnut, hazelnut, hickory, and oak
Non-woody Plants:

Carolina Chickadee

Woody Plants: Blackberry, blueberry, honeysuckle, mulberry, pine, redbud, and Virginia creeper
Non-woody Plants: Ragweed

Carolina Wren

Woody Plants: Bayberry, oak, sumac, and sweet gum
Non-woody Plants: Smartweed

Chipping Sparrow

Woody Plants: Cherry
Non-woody Plants: Chickweed, clovers, crabgrass, euphorbias, knotweed, lamb’s quarter, pigweed, poverty weed, purslane, ragweed, wood sorrel, and yellow foxtail

Dark-eyed Junco

Woody Plants:
Non-woody Plants: Alfilaria, chickweed, crabgrass, knotweed, lamb’s quarters, pigweed, ragweed, sorrel, and timothy

Downy Woodpecker

Woody Plants: Mulberry
Non-woody Plants:

Eastern Bluebird

Woody Plants: Smooth sumac and sumac
Non-woody Plants: Mistletoe

Eastern Towhee

Woody Plants: Blackberry, blueberry, and oak
Non-woody Plants: Ragweed and smartweed

Evening Grosbeak

Woody Plants: Apple, ash, aspen, birch, box elder, cherry, crabapple, elm, hawthorn, juniper, maple, oak, pine, Russian olive, tulip poplar, and willow
Non-woody Plants: Dock, goosefoot, and snowberry

House Finch

Woody Plants: Apricot, blackberry, cherry, fig, peach, pear, and plum
Non-woody Plants: Alfilaria, amaranth, black mustard, knotweed, napa thistle, strawberry, turkey mullein, and wild mustard

House Sparrow

Woody Plants:
Non-woody Plants: Bristlegrass, crabgrass, knotweed, and ragweed

Indigo Bunting

Woody Plants: Blackberry, blueberry, elderberry
Non-woody Plants: Beggarweed, big bluestem, crimson clover, elephant grass, goldenrod, indigo, Johnson grass, rattlebox, strawberry, thistle, turkey bluestem, and vetch

Mountain Chickadee

Woody Plants: Colorado pinyon and lodgepole pine
Non-woody Plants:

Mourning Dove

Woody Plants: Pine
Non-woody Plants: Amaranth, goosefoot, pokeweed, poppies, purslane, ragweed, saltbush, smartweed, spurges, and sunflower

Northern Cardinal

Woody Plants: Blackberry, dogwood, grape, hackberry, mulberry, sumac, and tulip
Non-woody Plants: Bristle grass, knotweed, panic grass, sedge, smartweed, and vervain

Northern Flicker

Woody Plants: Bayberry, blackberry, dogwood, frost grape, hackberry, raspberry, smooth sumac, sour gum, sumac, and wild black cherry
Non-woody Plants:

Pine Siskin

Woody Plants: Alder, American larch, Australian gum, birch, Canada hemlock, elm, maple, northern white cedar, pine, spruce, and sweet gum
Non-woody Plants: Chickweed, ragweed, and sunflower

Purple Finch

Woody Plants: Ash, beech, blackberry, black birch, buck bush, cocklebur, coralberry, cotoneaster, crab apple, dogwood, elm, firethorn, grape, juneberry, juniper, hackberry, honeysuckle, hophornbeam, hornbeam, maple, mountain ash, serviceberry, silverleaf, sweet gum, raspberry, red cedar, sumac, sycamore, and tulip tree
Non-woody Plants: Chickweed, goosefoot, pigweed, ragweed, strawberry, and wild radish

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Woody Plants: Flamboyant tree, pin oak, slash pine, and sugar maple
Non-woody Plants:

Red-breasted Nuthatch

Woody Plants: Conifers and sedges
Non-woody Plants:

Red-winged Blackbird

Woody Plants: Cocklebur
Non-woody Plants: Ragweed and sunflower

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Woody Plants: Blackberry, elderberry, mulberry, raspberry, and red-berried elder
Non-woody Plants: Foxtail, milkweed, peas, pigweed, smartweed, and sunflower

Spotted Towhee

Woody Plants: Blackberry, cherry, coffeeberry, elder, gooseberry, honeysuckle, madrone, manzanita, oak, raspberry, sumac, and toyon
Non-woody Plants: Amaranth, chickweed, dock, miner’s lettuce, redberry, smartweed, snowberry, tarweed, and thistle

Tufted Titmouse

Woody Plants: Hickory, sweet gum, and white oak
Non-woody Plants: Sunflower

Western Scrub-Jay

Woody Plants: Cherry, elderberry, juniper, oak, and prune
Non-woody Plants:

White-breasted Nuthatch

Woody Plants: Hawthorn, oak, and ponderosa pine
Non-woody Plants: Sunflower

White-crowned Sparrow

Woody Plants: Blackberry and elderberry
Non-woody Plants: