Thanks Carol for your input! I was thinking that probably a lot of money would be lost (native plant nurseries) and people's pretty green lawns might be marred if we were all instructed to start spreading dandelion seeds to encourage greater numbers in otherwise devoid-of-life lawn grass to REALLY help the pollinators 
Wish somebody would do a study to determine what the pollinators really prefer! Honestly, the top ones here are dandelions, thistle, joe pye, goldenrod, mountain mint and jewelweed. You don't really need to look too far for this stuff. Asclepias is good if you have monarchs but even the monarchs will pick their species...I have growing wild, lots of A. syriaca and A. quadrifolia but have yet to see a monarch on them. I'm going to go out and plant some more "weeds"... 
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