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Buddleja species, especially Buddleja davidii and interspecific hybrids, are commonly known as butterfly bushes and are frequently cultivated as garden shrubs. [5] Buddleja davidii has become an invasive species in both Europe and North America.
Asclepias tuberosa, commonly known as butterfly weed, is a species of milkweed native to eastern and southwestern North America. [2] It is commonly known as butterfly weed because of the butterflies that are attracted to the plant by its color and its copious production of nectar .
Enhance your garden's charm with these 11 butterfly plants. These flowers for butterflies not only showcase nature's beauty but also support vital pollinators.
A noteworthy feeder on milkweeds is the monarch butterfly, which uses and requires certain milkweeds as host plants for their larvae. The Asclepias genus contains over 200 species distributed broadly across Africa, North America, and South America. [ 7 ]
Other common names include bloodflower or blood flower, [3] cotton bush, [6] hierba de la cucaracha, [3] Mexican butterfly weed, redhead, [6] scarlet milkweed, [3] and wild ipecacuanha. [ 3 ] It is grown as an ornamental garden plant and as a food source for some butterflies , however it may be harmful to the migration patterns of monarch ...
Limenitis arthemis, the red-spotted purple or white admiral, is a North American butterfly species in the cosmopolitan genus Limenitis.It has been studied for its evolution of mimicry, and for the several stable hybrid wing patterns within this nominal species; it is one of the most dramatic examples of hybridization between non-mimetic and mimetic populations.
Schizanthus / ˌ s k ɪ ˈ z æ n θ ə s /, [1] also called butterfly flower, fringeflower, poor-man's-orchid, is a genus of plants in the nightshade family, Solanaceae. They are annual or biennial herbaceous plants , with attractive flowers and they belong to the subfamily Schizanthoideae of the Solanaceae.
Typically, its stems are branched and the clump forming plants emerge in late spring after most other plants have begun growth for the year. The oppositely arranged leaves are 7.5 to 15 cm (3 to 6 in) long and 1 to 4 cm ( 1 ⁄ 2 to 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) wide and are narrow and lance-shaped , with the ends tapering to a sharp point.