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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 Marigold/

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

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