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Butterfly flower, or butterfly weed, is a species of milkweed that is known for its extensive native range. But, perhaps it is more well known for its role in the lifecycle of one of our favorite pollinators, the Monarch butterfly.
Learn “How to Grow Butterfly Flowers from seeds to bloom” with this guide and you will be attracting beautiful butterflies before you know it! Importantly, this guide is for the butterfly flower, not the butterfly bush.
Butterfly appeal: Flower clusters bloom profusely all summer long, providing a consistent nectar source for a wide range of pollinators. Butterflies are especially attracted to the eye-catching star-shaped flowers.
Attracting butterflies to your yard and garden is a great goal— these pretty pollinators not only look lovely, but help provide some support to bees and hummingbirds in pollinating your plants. Here, we round up 32 annuals, perennials, shrubs, and trees that attract different butterfly species.
These are the plants and butterfly flowers (both native and non-native) that have attracted the most butterflies to our garden and to other gardens across North America. This also includes host plants to feed butterfly caterpillars. If you’re looking for milkweed plants to support monarchs click here.
Butterflies bring life and beauty to a garden. Entice them to visit your backyard by adding some of their favorite flowers in shades of orange, red, yellow, pink and purple, planted in masses to help butterflies find them more easily.
From geraniums to goldenrod and lilacs to lavenders, the following 30 plants are perfectly shaped, colored, and fragranced to appeal to butterflies. Butterflies are particularly attracted to the azalea ’s endless abundance of bright pink colors – often spanning several weeks.
Just like with bees, if you want to attract butterflies, there are certain flowers that are guaranteed to have them fluttering about your beds. This list of pretty annuals and perennial flowers that support and attract butterflies is a perfect place to start.
Butterfly attracting flowers explained including the most popular annual and perennial butterfly flowers for all types of gardens and how to choose them.
The Douglas County Museum of History & Art Butterfly Garden was created in 2017. This garden contains lantana, abelia, coneflowers, black-eyed susan, Mexican petunia, hibiscus, and butterfly bush.