Inviting Butterflies to Your Backyard
Things You Need
Sunny area sheltered from the wind
Provide flowers from April to frost for Adults
Puddle area
Larval food for caterpillars
Things to Avoid
Chemical sprays
Adult food plants:
Generally Ray type flowers - Daisy
Plant List for Inviting Birds
Annuals
Aster
Marigold
Impatiens
Sweet Alyssum
Verbena
Zinnia
Shrubs
Blue Mist
Butterfly Bush
Potentilla
Privet
Summersweet
Viburnum
Trees
Rose of Sharon
Lilac
Sweetbay Magnolia
Perennials
Achillea
Asiatic Lilies
Aster
Butterfly Weed
Chives
Chrysanthemum
Coneflower
Coreopsis
Day Lilies
Delphinium
Dianthus
Echinops
- Globe Thistle
Gaillardia
Heliopsis
Heliotrope
Globe Heliotrope
Joe-Rye-Weed
Iberis
- candytuft
Lavender
Liatris
Loosestrife
Lupine
Monarda
Montauk Daisy
Mysotis
- Forget-Me-Nots
Nepeta
- Catnip
Pentas
Phlox
Rudbeckia
- Black-eyed Susan
Sedum
Solidago
Verbena
Larval Food Plants
Apple
Aster
Carrots
Celery
Dill
Fennel
Marigold
Milkweed
Ornamental Grass
Parsley
Snapdragon
Willow