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Attracting Butterflies to your Garden
Attracting Butterflies to your Garden
PERENNIALS Achillea-
Yarrow
Agastache
Ajuga Alcea-Hollyhock Alchemilla-Lady’s Mantle Anemone-Windflower Aquilegia-Columbine Arabis-Rockcress Armeria-Thrift Asclepias-Butterfly Flower Aster Astilbe-False Spirea Aurinia-Basket of Gold Baptisia-False Indigo Belamcanda-Blackberry Lily Bergenia-Saxifraga Boltonia-Starflower Brunnera-Forget Me Not Campanula-Bellflower Catananche-Cupid’s Dart Centaurea-Bachelor’s Button Centranthus-Jupiter’s Beard Ceratosigma-Plumbago Cheiranthus-Wallflower Chelone-Turtlehead Chrysanthemum-Hardy Mum Cimicifuga-Bugbane Coreopsis-Tickseed Delphinium-Hardy Larkspur Dianthus- Pinks Dicentra-Bleeding Heart Digitalis-Foxglove Echinacea-Coneflower Echinops-Globe Thistle Epimedium-Barrenwort Eryngium-Sea Holly Eupatorium-Joe Pye Weed Euphoribia-Spurge Gaillardia-Blanket Flower Gaura-Whirling Butterflies Geranium-Cranesbill Helenium-False Sunflower Helianthemum-Sun Rose Helianthus-Willowleaf Sunflwr Hemerocallis-Daylily Heuchera-Coral Bells Hibiscus-Rose Mallow Hypericum-St John’s Wort Iberis-Candytuff Iris-Siberian Leucanthemum-Shasta Daisy Liatris-Gayfeather Ligularia-Ragwort Lilium-Asiatic & Oriental Lily
Lobelia-Cardinal Flower Lupinus-Lupine Lysimachia-Loosestrife Malva-Hollyhock Mallow Monarda-Bee Balm Myosotis-Forget-Me-Not Oenothera-Evening Primrose Paeonia-Peony Penstemon-Beard Tongue Perovskia-Russian Sage Phlox-Tall Garden Phlox Physostegia-Obedient Plant Polemonium-Jacob’s Ladder Primula-Primrose Pyrethrum-Painted Daisy Rudbeckia-Black Eyed Susan Salvia-Meadow Sage Saponaria-Soapwort Scabiosa-Pincushion Flower Sedum-Stonecrop Solidago-Goldenrod Stachys-Lamb’s Ear Stokesia-Stoke’s Aster Thalictrum-Meadow Rue Tradescantia-Spiderwort Tritoma-Red Hot Poker Verbena
Veronica-Speedwell
HERBS Agastache-Anise Hyssop
Allium-Chives Borago-Borage Hyssopus-Hyssop Lavendula-Lavender Marrubium-Horehound Matricaris-Chamomile Melissa-Lemon Balm Nepeta-Catmint Ocimum-Basil Origonum-Marjoram Perovskia-Russian Sage Rosmarinus-Rosemary Salvia-Sage Santolina-Lavender Cotton Teucrium-Germander Thymus-Thyme
SHRUBS & VINES
Acer-Japanese Maple Aesculus-Red Buckeye Arctostaphylos-Bearberry Azalea-Deciduous Azalea-Evergreen Betula-River Birch Buddleia-Butterfly Bush Calluna-Heather Caryopteris-Blue Spirea Cercis-Redbud
Clematis Crataegus-Hawthorn Laburnum-Golden Chain Tree Leycesteria-Pheasant Berry Lonicera-Honeysuckle Vine Mahonia-Grape Holly Malus-Crabapple Oxydendron-Sourwood Philadelphus-Mock Orange Potentilla Prunus-Cherry Laurel Prunus-Flowering Almond Prunus-Flowering Cherry Prunus-Flowering Plum Prunus-Patio Peach Prunus-Sand Cherry Pyrus-Flowering Pear Rhamnus-Buckthorn Rhus Robinia-Twisted Black Locust Sambuncus-Elderberry Sciadopitys-Umbrella Pine Vaccinium-Blueberry Viburnum-Arrowwood Viburnum-Cranberry Viburnum-Doublefile Viburnum-evergreen Viburnum-Fragrant Snowball Viburnum-Linden Viburnum-Snowball Vitex-Chaste Tree
ANNUALS Ageratum-Paint Brushes
Alyssum Bougainvillea Calendula Cleome-Spiderplant Cosmos
Dahlia Dianthus-Pinks Gazania Geranium Gomphrena Heliotrope Impatiens Lantana Lobelia Marigold Melampodium Mimulus-Monkey Flower Nasturtium Nicotiana-Flowering Tobacco Pentas-Star Flower Petunia Salvia-Sage Snapdragon Statice Sunflower
CATERPILLER HOST PLANTS Anaphalis-Pearly Everlasting Anethum graveolens-Dill Alcea-Hollyhock Cleome-Spiderplant Feonicolum-Fennel Malva-Hollyhock Mallow
Parsley