Butterfly Plants Plants For Sale In Billings

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

An easy groundcovering perennial, Under the Sea Selfheal produces fat spikes of dark bracts from which tubular purplish pink flowers emerge over an extended period from late spring and through early summer providing nectar to bees, butterflies, and other...

Tall spikes of dark golden yellow 1" blooms are born in summer and fall on an upright growing shrub. Considered by some to be root hardy in zone 9 with protection. Called Popcorn Cassia because when brushed or crushed the foliage emits the wonderful fragrance...

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 tall sturdy spikes of this Liatris quickly develop white pearl-like buds that open to clusters of lavender flowers. Plant it at the back of the border in small to large groupings for a wonderful effect and the butterflies will love you for it as well.

If your Salvia or Sage starts to look unkempt in mid to late summer consider giving it a light shearing or remove the spent flowering spikes to help promote new growth and flower production.

Starry Rosinweed is a common native of our local pineywoods where it can be seen flowering sometimes as early as March. The flowering stalks emerge from a rosette of wide medium green foliage on this fibrous rooted native perennial.

" by Gavin Ballantyne and Pat Willmer. In the warmer parts of zone 8B we find that the larger growing Porterweeds, like Lavender, Coral, and Purple, occasionally return from the roots in late spring if well mulched.

Passiflora mooreana was named in honor of Dugald Moore of the Royal Dublin Society's Botanic Garden of Glasnevin, Ireland. The How-How Passionvine may reproduce from rhizomes although not as vigorously as the Maypop.

Another of the smaller varieties creating a dense bush with loads of nectar rich flowers for the butterflies and hummingbirds. Dwarf Red Porterweed is the smallest and most compact Porterweed that we offer and it lends itself to use near the front of...

Where they don't freeze back, a hard late-winter pruning will act as a renewal and may help to rid them of overwintering pests as well as to keep them full and in bounds (if you can stand to remove the flower buds).

The Fragrant White Mistflower produces clusters of fragrant, white, nectar-rich flowers in fall just as the Monarch butterflies are migrating southward. Hard late winter or early spring pruning promotes new growth and more flowers and helps to keep the...

The silvery grass-like foliage of Narrowleaf Silk Grass could fool anyone to thinking it might actually be a grass but by late summer and fall you can be sure that this is definitely in the aster family when it puts up sturdy stems that are topped by...

Beautifully cut medium green deeply cut lacy foliage that is reminiscent of the delicately cut foliage of some Japanese Maples adorns this vigorous 'Chaste Tree'. The Lace-Leaf Vitex is considered by many to be the most hardy of the Chaste Trees.

Spikes of 2" vivid fuchsia tubular fuzzy flowers emerge from dark colored calyxes and are held atop the dark green, glossy rounded foliage from spring to fall on this compact growing Salvia.

Like its pollen parent, Black & Bloom Salvia attracts hummingbirds as well as larger butterflies to its deep dark violet blue tubular flowers. Periodic deadheading is not required but may help to keep the plants looking fresher.

Miss Violet is another excellent introduction from the breeding work of Dr. Dennis Werner at North Carolina State University. Butterfly Bushes are easily grown, free flowering butterfly magnets and are moderately drought tolerant once well established.

Clusters of deep violet-purple flowers emerge from short upright to arching stems in summer and are held above the deep green grass-like foliage of this tough bulbous native perennial wildflower.

Ruby Glow is a vigorous growing, heat loving tropical vine that can reach 20'H under good conditions. With most passionflowers the 5 stamens (pollen producing glands) arch downward once they are ready to release their pollen (and nectar) then on the next...

Stoke's Aster comes highly recommended and its easy to see why with moderate drought resistance, few pest or disease problems, deer and rabbit resistance and it revels in the heat and sun of our southern summers.

Porterweeds are likely the number one favorite nectar plant for butterfly gardeners and surely for the butterflies themselves. It is also known as Pink Porterweed, Orange Porterweed, Pink Snakeweed.

We generally wait until the fruits become yellow (in yellow fruited cultivars) and wrinkled and have fallen from the vine. Bumblebees are perfectly designed for this as the pollen is rubbed on their back as they circle the corona drinking nectar and then...

This is a tough and hardy, perennial US Native. Finely textured blue-gray foliage on a plant that becomes more dense with age. Blooms from late spring through summer. Great for smaller pollinators.

A larger flowering form of the common Batface Cuphea which produces 1-1/2" long red tubular blooms that end with a purple bat-like face that is accented by the bright red 'ears'. Use in mixed containers or in mass to create a bold effect.

Paradoxa , is a taprooted native that is typically found in or near the shallow soils of rocky glades and prairies as well as near balds in the rounded, aging Ozark Mountains of Arkansas and Missouri.

Buddlejas are considered invasive in some regions please check with your local state offices before purchasing. The small size, exceptional flower power, and spreading habit lends Lilac Chip to use in the perennial border, as a groundcover, smaller spaces,...

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 Arboretum plant collection.