Let's take a look at your reports on the most commonly observed Nectar Connectors species in the northern parts of the country.
In the Northeast, you are reporting flowers or flower buds and open flowers on common milkweed and wild bergamot. For seaside goldenrod, the third most commonly-observed Nectar Connectors species, you have not yet reported flowering. Your "no" responses, indicated by the gray bars on the calendar below, and important for helping us see the start of a particular phenophase such as open flowers.