Plants Butterflies Like

Large deep green heart shaped foliage is veined with silver and randomly splotched with maroon and black. A vigorous but manageable unusual perennial tropical vine.

Produces large clusters of loosely double 2" pink flowers from spring to fall.A very free-blooming, disease resistant, and nearly thornless climbing rose.

The Cross Vine is also known as: Trumpet Flower, Tendriled Trumpet Creeper, Smoke Vine, and Quarter Vine. Cross Vines are a low maintenance choice for fences, posts, and large trellises.

Excellent for growing on a low fence or on a trellis. A vigorous climbing and disease resistant rose producing huge clusters of deep red 1" roses in late spring, summer, and fall. See the external info link below for more from Dr. Jerry Parson's of T...

An easily grown perennial vine. Blooming spring to fall. Intense orange, 2" daisy-like blooms with yellow centers are borne on a vigorous twining vine.

The majority of tropical Pipevines, like this one, are not considered good choices for the Pipevine Swallowtail whereas the native species as well as the Fringed Dutchman's Pipevine , Aristolochia fimbriata , are considered as good hosts for these butterflies.

Rosy pink new growth matures to white and deep rich green creating a snowfall of color in the garden. Asiatic Jasmine is a tough, reliable, and dense evergreen groundcover that is tolerant of a wide variety of soils and light conditions.

Ogon Nishiki Asiatic Jasmine was rebranded as Salsa Jasmine at one point by another nursery for marketing purposes and that was how we had come to know it. This is an excellent choice for difficult sites and is moderately drought resistant once well-established.

Long spikes of deep indigo blue, tubular flowers are borne continuously from spring to frost on this vigorous perennial Salvia. Considered hardy into zone 7 Indigo Spires Salvia will need a winter mulch anywhere temperatures drop much below about 25 o...

Homestead Verbena was discovered by Dr. Allan Armitage and Dr. Michael Dirr on an old homestead in Georgia. Verbena's are cool season growing perennials and so that is when fertilize should be applied.

Cloud Eight is a semi-dwarf selection of Purole-Top Vervain with a compact and free flowering habit. Clusters of rich purple flowers are produced on sturdy stems atop the medium green foliage from spring through summer and into fall.

Bumblebees are perfectly designed for this as the pollen is rubbed on their back as they circle the corona drinking nectar and then carry it to the next flower. In order to produce their delicious tangy tropical tasting fruit Passionflowers must be cross-pollinated...

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.

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.

Turk's Cap is well-loved and so is known by a variety of common names including: Turk's Turban, Ladie's Eardrops, Scotchman's Purse, Wild Fuchsia,Drummond Wax-Mallow, Texas Mallow, Mexican Apple, Red Mallow, May Apple, Wild Turk's Cap, Bleeding Heart,...

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.

The flowers shine brightly against the backdrop of deep blue-green foliage. Snow Queen Passionflower is a vigorous, hardy, and exceptionally free-flowering Riverside hybrid created by Myles Irvine of the UK that can be enjoyed in gardens or as a container...

This naturally sprawling vine-like shrub can easily be pruned to produce a dense mass of foliage and flowers. Sweetly fragrant clusters of 2", star-like, pure white blooms are produced continuously throughout the summer months against a rich glossy green...

An excellent choice for butterfly and hummingbird gardens that will flower from summer until frost. The Butterfly Series Pentas are excellent heat and humidity tolerant free flowering Pentas with a medium sized well-branched growth habit.

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.

Excellent fall color for the garden as well as drought tolerance and pest and disease resistance make this an excellent addition to the perennial or wildflower border. October Skies Aster is a low mounding perennial that develops into a compact shrub-like...

The Texas Coneflower is found only in Louisiana and SE Texas. Rudbeckia texana and R. 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...

Porterweeds are likely the number one favorite nectar plant for butterfly gardeners and surely for the butterflies themselves. Porterweeds are excellent nectar producers outperforming nearly all other butterfly plants in the garden.

Summer Jewel Red is a 2011 All American Selection Award winner and produces a nearly non-stop display of scarlet red tubular flowers from spring to frost on a compact plant that begins flowering earlier.

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. This is the selection with the deepest red color, comes from seed collected in southern Baja California.

For these areas consider some of the sterile or near sterile hybrids like " Lo' & Beholdtm Blue Chip ". An old favorite and an excellent performer, Royal Red Butterfly Bush produces a continuous wave of rich reddish-purple spikes of flowers that are adored...