Annuals & Perennials Attractive to Butterflies

 

Annuals & Perennials

Attractive to Butterflies

 

Annuals-for use in containers or beds

Annuals will tend to have more blooms than perennials, but only last one season.

Ageratum

Cosmos

Hypericum

Lantana

Nicotiana

Marigold

Mexican Sunflower

Pentas

Petunia

Verbena

Zinnia

Dill

Fennel ‘Bronze’

Parsley

Perennials-for use in containers or beds

Perennials can be moved from containers into beds at the end of season where they may continue to grow year after year.

Allium

Amsonia

Asclepias tuberosa

Asclepias incarnata

Black-Eyed Susan/Rudbeckia

Butterfly Bush –dwarf varieties

Calamintha/Nepeta

Campanula

Chives

Coreopsis

Daisy

Dianthus

Gaillardia

Heuchera/Coral Bells

Heliopsis helianthoides

Lavender

Liatris

Ligularia ‘Bottle Rocket’

Little Bluestem -grass

Lobelia

Monarda

Phlox

Prairie Dropseed -grass

Purple Coneflower

Russian Sage

Salvia

Scabiosa

Veronica