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Butterfly gardening is a way to create, improve, and maintain habitat for lepidopterans including butterflies, skippers, and moths. [2] Butterflies have four distinct life stages—egg, larva, chrysalis, and adult. In order to support and sustain butterfly populations, an ideal butterfly garden contains habitat for each life stage.
Chrysanthemum – Dendranthema grandiflora [ vi], Chrysanthemum morifolium. (True) cinnamon – Cinnamomum verum. Clove – Syzygium aromaticum. Clover – Trifolium spp. Coakum – Phytolacca americana. Coconut – Cocos nucifera. Coffee plant – Coffea spp. Colic weed – Corydalis flavula. Collard – Symplocarpus foetidus.
Buddleia L., orth. var. Chilianthus Burch.[ 2] Buddleja ( / ˈbʌdliə /; orth. var. Buddleia; also historically given as Buddlea) is a genus comprising over 140 [ 3] species of flowering plants endemic to Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The generic name bestowed by Linnaeus posthumously honoured the Reverend Adam Buddle (1662–1715), an ...
Impatiens / ɪ m ˈ p eɪ ʃ ə n s / [2] is a genus of more than 1,000 species of flowering plants, widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere and the tropics. Together with the genus Hydrocera (one species), Impatiens make up the family Balsaminaceae. Common names in North America include impatiens, jewelweed, touch-me-not ...
Asclepias syriaca, commonly called common milkweed, butterfly flower, silkweed, silky swallow-wort, and Virginia silkweed, is a species of flowering plant. [1] [2] It is native to southern Canada and much of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, excluding the drier parts of the prairies. [3] It is in the genus Asclepias, the milkweeds ...
Lepidoptera (/ ˌ l ɛ p ɪ ˈ d ɒ p t ər ə / LEP-ih-DOP-tər-ə) or lepidopterans is an order of winged insects which includes butterflies and moths.About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera have been described, representing 10% of the total described species of living organisms, [1] [2] making it the second largest insect order (behind Coleoptera) with 126 families [3] and 46 superfamilies ...
The Tropical Rain Forest Aviary includes a waterfall, tropical plants, free flying birds, and butterflies. Grace Gardens is an outdoor botanical garden with flowering tropical plants. The Wings of the World Secret Garden has one of the largest collections of flowering Passion Flower vines in the world. The Jewels of the Sky Aviary is where ...
Canna Lily. These handsome flowers have huge, banana-plant-type leaves and large blooms. Cannas come in every color imaginable, including bright orange and orange-red. In zones 6 and colder, dig ...