Butterfly Leaf Plant

What a discovery that must've been! Homestead Verbena was discovered by Dr. Allan Armitage and Dr. Michael Dirr on an old homestead in Georgia. A good choice for butterfly gardens.

Use Cloud Eight Verbena in the garden, landscape, or in container gardens. Clusters of rich purple flowers are produced on sturdy stems atop the medium green foliage from spring through summer and into fall.

To learn more see the Passionfruit datasheet by Purdue Horticulture: https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/passionfruit.html#Varieties The Maypop is also known as: Purple Passionflower, Purple Passionvine, and Apricot Vine.

Buchanan's Sage is an excellent choice for containers or the garden where it is sure to attract both hummingbirds and butterflies. Spikes of 2" vivid fuchsia tubular fuzzy flowers emerge from dark colored calyxes and are held atop the dark green, glossy...

Lilac Chip is one of the newest introductions in this line of compact, basically sterile Butterfly Bushes. Buddlejas are considered invasive in some regions please check with your local state offices before purchasing.

Tough, easy, and great for Hummingbirds. This Turk's Cap has won the prestigious Lynn Lowery Award from the Native Plant Society of Texas! For more on Greg's introductions from the SFA Gardens website click the "More Info" link below.

Masses of tall wispy deep pink spikes are covered by a succession of large pink butterfly-like flowers throughout summer. A tough and hardy, drought tolerant, perennial US Native.

Provide your Snow Queen Passionvine with a breathable protective winter mulch and a well-drained soil in the garden and landscape. The Snow Queen Passionflower is a host to the Gulf Frittilary Butterfly and will most likely serve as a host for other butterfly...

Sweetly fragrant clusters of 2", star-like, pure white blooms are produced continuously throughout the summer months against a rich glossy green foliage. Train it on a trellis or other support to produce a small-medium sized fragrant evergreen vine.

The Butterfly Series Pentas have been selected as a 2012 Louisiana Super Plant! Give it a rich fertile soil and periodic water during dry spells. Pentas are considered to be deer resistant and moderately salt tolerant.

Drought tolerant, deer resistant, and reliable. Early Bird Gold was selected from a stand of Goldstrum Rudbeckia and inherits all of that award winning perennial's attributes yet it flowers continuously over a much longer period.

Aromatic Aster is native to much of the central and eastern US. May not tolerate poor drainage but at the same time will do well in most soils from clay, calcareous, limestone, and sand.

A choice native coneflower, the Texas Coneflower produces 3-5" bright golden yellow daisies that are borne singly, or in small clusters of up 5 flowers, and are held on sturdy upright stems in summer.

I would be surprised to find a plant that produces a more continuous supply of nectar rich flowers from summer to frost, even most Lantana has to catch its breath from time to time during the heat of summer.

Scarlet Sage is the number one most recommended Salvia species for hummingbirds! A perennial in mild winter climates and may reseed under good conditions. Summer Jewel Red is a 2011 All American Selection Award winner and produces a nearly non-stop display...

Lilac Chip is one of the newest introductions in this line of compact, basically sterile Butterfly Bushes. Buddlejas are considered invasive in some regions please check with your local state offices before purchasing.

It dies to the ground in winter, but faithfully returns from the ground each spring. An easy to grow and drought tolerant heirloom plant. It flowers all summer and fall. This is the selection with the deepest red color, comes from seed collected in southern...

Deadheading spent flowers will help to promote continuous flowering but this is not required. For these areas consider some of the sterile or near sterile hybrids like " Lo' & Beholdtm Blue Chip ".

This is a clump forming, taprooted perennial that prefers well-drained soils. The Yellow Purple Coneflower or Yellow Coneflower, Echinacea paradoxa var. Neglecta , that has white, pink, to purplish ray petals that more closely resemble those of the Sanguin...

These seedlings originated from a vigorous native Louisiana population of this beautiful perennial. A Dawn Stover Nifty Fifty favorite herbaceous plant! Dawn is a Research Associate at Stephen F Austin in Nacogdoches, TX and currently maintains the Mast...

For more about the story about the discovery of Henry Duelberg and Augusta Duelberg mealycup sages see the 'External Info Link' below. Thank you for allowing us to use this image! This is a wonderful drought tolerant, reliable, native perennial for the...

Jack in the Bush or Crucita is truly one of the very best butterfly plants as well as for a host of other pollinators! The nectar rich, light blue to purple, flat topped flower clusters make the perfect landing platforms for pollinators of all shapes...

Colorwheel Stokesia is just as tough and reliable as its brethren creating a mound of foliage on a durable and dense clump forming native perennial. A durable and reliable US native perennial, Stoke's Aster comes highly recommended and its easy to see...

Butterfly Bush is considered invasive in some areas, please consult your local state offices before purchasing. White, fragrant bloom spikes reaching 16", are held against the green, velvety foliage.

A beautiful and eye-catching addition to any garden setting as well as a long lasting cutflower for arrangements. Henry Eiler's is unique in that is has petals that are quilled or rolled into tubes as well as having flowers that are more yellow than gold...

This is an award winning perennial and has received the Royal Horticulture Society's Award of Garden Merit. If drainage is an issue use a sandy gravelly soil as this drought resistant yarrow makes an easy container plant.

Provide full to partial sun with average drainage with average moisture for best results. Kobalt Anise Sage is sometimes often sold as 'Cobalt'. Use this reliable perennial Salvia in beds or containers.