Plants that Attract Butterflies

Annuals

  • Fuchsia
  • Heliotrope
  • Lantana
  • Mints
  • Nicotiana
  • Petunia
  • Rudbeckia
  • Verbena

Perennials

  • Achillea
  • Agastache
  • Alcea
  • Aquilegia canadensis
  • Armeria
  • Aruncus dioicus
  • Asclepias tuberosa
  • Aster laevis
  • Aster novae-angeliae
  • Boltonia
  • Caryopteris
  • Ceratostigma
  • Chelone
  • Cimicifuga
  • Coreopsis
  • Delphinium
  • Dianthus
  • Echinacea
  • Echinops
  • Eupatorium
  • Gaillardia
  • Gaura
  • Geranium
  • Helenium
  • Helianthus
  • Heliopsis
  • Hemerocallis
  • Heucherella
  • Hibiscus
  • Kniphofia
  • Lavandula
  • Leucanthemum
  • Liatris
  • Ligularia
  • Lobelia cardinalis
  • Lupinus perennis
  • Mertensia virginica
  • Monarda
  • Nepeta
  • Phlox
  • Physostegia
  • Pycnanthemum
  • Salvia
  • Scabiosa
  • Sedum
  • Silene regia
  • Solidago
  • Stokesia
  • Tiarella
  • Vernonia

Trees and Shrubs

  • Asimina triloba
  • Lindera benzoin
  • Clethra alnifolia
  • Itea virginica
  • Aesculus parviflora
  • Cercis canadensis

Plants that Attract Butterfly Larvae

Butterfly Species

Larvae Plants

Spicebush Swallowtail Spicebush, Sassafras
Eastern Black Swallowtail Parsley
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Black cherry, Tulip tree, Ash, Spicebush
Cabbage White Cabbage, Mustards
Checkered White Cabbage, Mustards
Clouded Sulpher Leguminous plants
Orange Sulpher Alfalfa, Clovers
Eastern Tailed Blue Leguminous plants
Spring Azure Dogwoods, Viburnums, Black cherry
Great Spangled Fritillary Violets
Pearl Crescent Asters
Question Mark Elm, Hackberry
Comma Nettles, Elm
Mourning Cloak Cottonwood, Elm, Hackberry
Red Admiral Nettles
Painted Lady Pearly everlasting
Red-Spotted Purple Black cherry, Hawthorn
Viceroy Willow, Poplars, Black cherry
Monarch Milkweed
Silver-Spotted Skipper

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