Nectar Plants for Butterflies in our garden:


Native plants:

Indigo bush

Gray-headed coneflower

Purple Cone Flower

Purple coneflower

Pale purple coneflower

Purple prairie clover

Orange Milkweed

Orange Milkweed

Eastern Prickly Pear

Eastern prickly pear

Prairie blazing star

Riddell's goldenrod*

Stiff leaved goldenrod*

Upland white aster

Smooth blue aster

New England Aster

Blanket flower

Lance-leaved coreopsis

Showy tick trefoil

Black eyed susan

Wild bergamot

* Though goldenrod was long blamed for causing hay fever, it has now been proven that the real culprit is ragweed!


Ornamental plants

Showy Sedum

Marigolds

Phlox

Zinnia

Cosmos

Lavender

Thyme

Chives

Butterfly bush


And for hummingbirds:

Eastern Columbine

trumpet vine and eastern columbine


Remember: pesticides kill butterflies' families. Without larvae there are no butterflies.