diff --git a/terraform/graph_builder_apply.go b/terraform/graph_builder_apply.go
index 1a0c4a9cb..ff59edc8e 100644
--- a/terraform/graph_builder_apply.go
+++ b/terraform/graph_builder_apply.go
@@ -119,13 +119,18 @@ func (b *ApplyGraphBuilder) Steps() []GraphTransformer {
 		// Add module variables
 		&ModuleVariableTransformer{Config: b.Config},
 
-		// Must be before TransformProviders and ReferenceTransformer, since
-		// schema is required to extract references from config.
+		// Must be run before TransformProviders so that resource configurations
+		// can be analyzed.
 		&AttachSchemaTransformer{Schemas: b.Schemas},
 
 		// add providers
 		TransformProviders(b.Components.ResourceProviders(), concreteProvider, b.Config),
 
+		// Attach schema to the newly-created provider nodes.
+		// (Will also redundantly re-attach schema to existing resource nodes,
+		// but that's okay.)
+		&AttachSchemaTransformer{Schemas: b.Schemas},
+
 		// Remove modules no longer present in the config
 		&RemovedModuleTransformer{Config: b.Config, State: b.State},
 
diff --git a/terraform/graph_builder_eval.go b/terraform/graph_builder_eval.go
index 0da15b3b9..6ceb2264d 100644
--- a/terraform/graph_builder_eval.go
+++ b/terraform/graph_builder_eval.go
@@ -73,12 +73,6 @@ func (b *EvalGraphBuilder) Steps() []GraphTransformer {
 		// Add root variables
 		&RootVariableTransformer{Config: b.Config},
 
-		// Must be before TransformProviders and ReferenceTransformer, since
-		// schema is required to extract references from config.
-		&AttachSchemaTransformer{Schemas: b.Schemas},
-
-		TransformProviders(b.Components.ResourceProviders(), concreteProvider, b.Config),
-
 		// Add the local values
 		&LocalTransformer{Config: b.Config},
 
@@ -88,6 +82,17 @@ func (b *EvalGraphBuilder) Steps() []GraphTransformer {
 		// Add module variables
 		&ModuleVariableTransformer{Config: b.Config},
 
+		// Must be run before TransformProviders so that resource configurations
+		// can be analyzed.
+		&AttachSchemaTransformer{Schemas: b.Schemas},
+
+		TransformProviders(b.Components.ResourceProviders(), concreteProvider, b.Config),
+
+		// Attach schema to the newly-created provider nodes.
+		// (Will also redundantly re-attach schema to existing resource nodes,
+		// but that's okay.)
+		&AttachSchemaTransformer{Schemas: b.Schemas},
+
 		// Connect so that the references are ready for targeting. We'll
 		// have to connect again later for providers and so on.
 		&ReferenceTransformer{},
diff --git a/terraform/graph_builder_import.go b/terraform/graph_builder_import.go
index 50f38e394..036ae3259 100644
--- a/terraform/graph_builder_import.go
+++ b/terraform/graph_builder_import.go
@@ -61,12 +61,17 @@ func (b *ImportGraphBuilder) Steps() []GraphTransformer {
 		// Add root variables
 		&RootVariableTransformer{Config: b.Config},
 
-		// Must be before TransformProviders and ReferenceTransformer, since
-		// schema is required to extract references from config.
+		// Must be run before TransformProviders so that resource configurations
+		// can be analyzed.
 		&AttachSchemaTransformer{Schemas: b.Schemas},
 
 		TransformProviders(b.Components.ResourceProviders(), concreteProvider, config),
 
+		// Attach schema to the newly-created provider nodes.
+		// (Will also redundantly re-attach schema to existing resource nodes,
+		// but that's okay.)
+		&AttachSchemaTransformer{Schemas: b.Schemas},
+
 		// This validates that the providers only depend on variables
 		&ImportProviderValidateTransformer{},
 
diff --git a/terraform/graph_builder_plan.go b/terraform/graph_builder_plan.go
index ed734d704..3142c0a56 100644
--- a/terraform/graph_builder_plan.go
+++ b/terraform/graph_builder_plan.go
@@ -107,6 +107,8 @@ func (b *PlanGraphBuilder) Steps() []GraphTransformer {
 
 		&MissingProvisionerTransformer{Provisioners: b.Components.ResourceProvisioners()},
 
+		// Must be run before TransformProviders so that resource configurations
+		// can be analyzed.
 		&AttachSchemaTransformer{Schemas: b.Schemas},
 
 		// Add module variables
@@ -116,13 +118,14 @@ func (b *PlanGraphBuilder) Steps() []GraphTransformer {
 
 		TransformProviders(b.Components.ResourceProviders(), b.ConcreteProvider, b.Config),
 
+		// Attach schema to the newly-created provider nodes.
+		// (Will also redundantly re-attach schema to existing resource nodes,
+		// but that's okay.)
+		&AttachSchemaTransformer{Schemas: b.Schemas},
+
 		// Remove modules no longer present in the config
 		&RemovedModuleTransformer{Config: b.Config, State: b.State},
 
-		// Must be before ReferenceTransformer, since schema is required to
-		// extract references from config.
-		&AttachSchemaTransformer{Schemas: b.Schemas},
-
 		// Connect so that the references are ready for targeting. We'll
 		// have to connect again later for providers and so on.
 		&ReferenceTransformer{},
diff --git a/terraform/graph_builder_refresh.go b/terraform/graph_builder_refresh.go
index 87892191c..8e4dfb625 100644
--- a/terraform/graph_builder_refresh.go
+++ b/terraform/graph_builder_refresh.go
@@ -138,12 +138,17 @@ func (b *RefreshGraphBuilder) Steps() []GraphTransformer {
 		// Add module variables
 		&ModuleVariableTransformer{Config: b.Config},
 
-		// Must be before TransformProviders and ReferenceTransformer, since
-		// schema is required to extract references from config.
+		// Must be run before TransformProviders so that resource configurations
+		// can be analyzed.
 		&AttachSchemaTransformer{Schemas: b.Schemas},
 
 		TransformProviders(b.Components.ResourceProviders(), concreteProvider, b.Config),
 
+		// Attach schema to the newly-created provider nodes.
+		// (Will also redundantly re-attach schema to existing resource nodes,
+		// but that's okay.)
+		&AttachSchemaTransformer{Schemas: b.Schemas},
+
 		// Connect so that the references are ready for targeting. We'll
 		// have to connect again later for providers and so on.
 		&ReferenceTransformer{},
diff --git a/terraform/transform_destroy_edge.go b/terraform/transform_destroy_edge.go
index fdbf5081a..80adf666a 100644
--- a/terraform/transform_destroy_edge.go
+++ b/terraform/transform_destroy_edge.go
@@ -139,12 +139,17 @@ func (t *DestroyEdgeTransformer) Transform(g *Graph) error {
 		&RootVariableTransformer{Config: t.Config},
 		&ModuleVariableTransformer{Config: t.Config},
 
-		// Must be before ReferenceTransformer, since schema is required to
-		// extract references from config.
+		// Must be run before TransformProviders so that resource configurations
+		// can be analyzed.
 		&AttachSchemaTransformer{Schemas: t.Schemas},
 
 		TransformProviders(nil, providerFn, t.Config),
 
+		// Attach schema to the newly-created provider nodes.
+		// (Will also redundantly re-attach schema to existing resource nodes,
+		// but that's okay.)
+		&AttachSchemaTransformer{Schemas: t.Schemas},
+
 		&ReferenceTransformer{},
 	}