Butterfly Plants
Perennials, Annuals, Trees and Shrubs
Many plants serves as nectar sources for butterflies also as host plants for caterpillars and as a food source for adult butterflies and larvae.
To increase the numbers of butterflies in your garden, plant as many host plants and nectar Sources as you can.
Wildflowers are always butterfly magnets, but if you don't have room for a wildflower garden, butterflies will find other sources. The only wildflower ( weed ) I have is "Milkweed", but butterflies found my parsley for as a host plant as well. :)
Annual and Perennial Butterfly Plants
- Ageratum houstonianium ( ageratum )
- Alcea rosea ( hollyhock )
- Allium schoenoprasum ( common chives )
- Asclepias spp. ( milkweeds, butterfly weed )
- Asclepepias tuberosa (butterfly weed>
- Aster spp. ( asters )
- Buddleia spp. ( butterfly bush )
- Centaurea cyannus ( cornflower )
- Chrysanthemum leucanthemum ( oxeye daisy )
- Chrysanthemum superbum ( Shasta daisy )
- Coreopsis spp. ( coreopsis )
- Cosmos bipinnatus ( cosmos )
- Dichelostemma pulchellum ( wild hyacinth )
- Echinacea purpurea ( purple coneflower )
- Eigeron spp. ( fleabanes )
- Eupatorium spp. ( bonesets, Joe-Pye weeds )
- Grindelia spp. ( Gumweeds )
- Helenium autumnale ( sneezeweed )
- Helianthus spp. ( sunflowers )
- Heliotropium arborescens ( common heliotrope )
- Hemerocallis spp. ( daylilies )
- Lobelia cardinalis ( cardinal flower )
- Lavandula spp. ( lavenders )
- Lobularia maritima ( sweet alyssum )
- Mentha spp. ( Mints )
- Monarda spp. ( bee balms )
- Nepeta cataria ( catnip )
- Phlox spp. ( phlox )
- Rudbeckia spp. ( coneflowers )
- Salvia spp. ( sages )
- Sedum spectabile ( showy stonecrop )
- Solidago spp. ( goldenrods )
- Tagetes patula ( French marigold )
- Thymus spp. ( thymes )
- Tropaeolum spp. ( nasturtiums )
- Verbena spp. ( verbenas )
- Vernonia spp. ( ironweeds )
- Zinnia spp. ( zinnias )
Trees and Shrubs for Butterflies
- Chrysothamus nauseosus ( gray rabbit-brush )
- Ligustrum spp. ( privets )
- Lonicera spp. ( honeysuckles )
- Rhus spp. ( sumacs )
- Salix spp. ( willows )
- Syringa vulgaris ( common lilac )
- Tilia americana ( basswood )
- Vaccinium spp. ( blueberries )
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