Best & Worst Flowers
for People With Allergies
Itchy eyes & a runny nose can be signs that you're allergic to pollen in the air.
See which plants & trees might be causing your symptoms.
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Does plant pollen trigger your allergies?
- You can make some changes in your yard and still enjoy gardening.
- Many flowers, shrubs, trees & grasses make very little or even no pollen & some species produce it only in certain plants.
- For those, all you need to do is to make sure you have female plants,the ones that don't
make the sneezy, yellow stuff. - This list will help you know what garden plants and flowers to avoid and which are fine,
despite your allergies
Worst Plants for Allergies
You can expect more plant pollen & seasonal alergies
if you put any of these plants in your yard.
Flowers & Herbs
- Amaranth (pigweed
- Chamomile
- Chrysanthemums
- Daisies
- Goldenrod
- Ordinary sunflowers
Shrubs & Vines
- Cypress
- Jasmine vine
- Juniper
- Wisteria
Trees
- Alde
- Ash (male),
- Aspen (male)
- Beech
- Birch
- Box elder (male)
- Cedar (male)
- Cottonwood (male)
- Elm
- Hickory
- Mulberry (male),
- Oak
- Olive
- Palm (male)
- Pecan
- Pine
- Poplar (male)
- Red & silver maples (male)
- Sycamore
- Walnut
- Willow (male)
Grasses
- Bermuda
- Fescue
- Johnson
- June
- Orchard
- Perennial Rye
- Redtop
- Salt Grass
- Sweet Vernal
- Timothy.
Weeds
- Cocklebur
- Ragweed
- Russian Thistle
- Sagebrush
Better Choices
You'll have fewer worries with these plants
that make little to no airborne pollen.
You can enjoy working with them & watching them grow.
Flowers
- Begonia
- Cactus
- Chenille
- Clematis
- Columbine
- Crocus
- Daffodi
- Dusty Miller
- Geranium
- Hosta
- Impatiens
- Iris
- Lily
- Pansy
- Periwinkle
- Petunia
- Phlox
- Rose
- Salvia
- Snap dragon
- Thrift
- Tulip
- Verbena
- Zinnia.
Hypoallergenic Sunflower Seeds
All these grow 5 to 6 feet tall & the pollen is too heavy to be spread easily.
- Apricot Twist (apricot with gold center)
- Infrared Mix (dark crimson, ruby, golden-reds)
- The Joker (showy red & yellow double blooms)
- Pro-Cut Bicolor (stunning mahogany & yellow with black centers).
Shrubs
- Azalea
- Boxwood (if clipped often)
- Hibiscus,
- Hydrangea
- Viburnum.
Trees
- Apple
- Cherry
- Chinese fan palm (female)
- Fern pine (female)
- Dogwood
- English holly (female)
- Bradford pear
- Crepe myrtle
- Hardy rubber tree
- Magnolia
- Pear
- Plum,
- Red maple (female).
Grasses
St. Augustine
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