Plants for a Butterfly Garden
The following is a brief list of plants you might want to include in a
butterfly garden. Your garden center or landscape professional can suggest other
varieties appropriate to your climate.
Nectar Plants
- Annuals Cosmos / Cosmos sulphreus
- French marigolds / Tagetes Patula
- Impatiens / Impatiens wallerana
- Moss verbena / Verbena tenuisecta
- Zinnia / Zinnia elegans
Perennials
- New England aster / Aster novae-angliae
- Pineapple sage / Salvia rutilans
- Purple Coneflower / Echinacea purpurea
- Vervain / Verbena bonariensis
Shrubs
- Azalea / Rhododendron spp.
- Butterfly bush / Buddleia davidii
- Glossy abelia / Abelia x Grandiflora
Host Plants
- Butterflyweed / Asclepius tuberosa attracts monarchs
- Parsley / Petroselinum crispum attracts black swallowtail
- Dill / Anethum graveolens attracts black swallowtail
- Blue Passionflower / Passiflora caerulea attracts gulf fritillary
- Spicebush / Lindera benzoin attracts spicebush swallowtail
- Tulip Tree / Liriodendron tulipifera attracts eastern tiger swallowtail
