Butterfly Gardens

CARE SHEET

Butterfly Gardens

Butterflies add natural beauty to the garden and are valuable pollinators. But, due to the destruction of natural habitat and indiscriminate use of broad-spectrum pesticides, the butterfly population is in decline.

To attract butterflies, choose a sunny location protected from wind. Use plants of differing heights, colors, and bloom times to attract butterflies throughout the season. Grow larvae plants, as well, to encourage egg laying. Expect to see caterpillars munching on these plants. Enjoy them and let them eat all they want to! Make a puddle by burying a shallow saucer filled with sand and water. Place a flat stone in the sun for basking. Provide undisturbed log piles and leaf litter in a hidden spot in the garden for shelter. Limit the use of pesticides in your garden, as most are toxic to butterflies!

Perennials

Botannical Name...... Common Name Botannical Name...... Common Name

Achillea...... Yarrow Echinops...... Globe Thistle Aconitum...... Monkshood Eryngium...... Sea Holly Alcea...... Hollyhock Eupatorium...... Joe Pye Weed Allium...... Onion Geranium...... Hardy Geranium Anemone...... Anemone Gaillardia...... Blanket Flower Arabis...... Rockcress Gaura...... ‘Whorling Butterflies’ Artemesia...... Wormwood Helianthus...... Swamp Sunflower Asclepias...... Butterfly Weed Heliopsis...... Orange Sunflower Aster...... Aster Hesperis...... Dame’s Rocket Astilbe...... Astilbe Hemerocallis...... Daylily Baptisia...... False Blue Indigo Iberis...... Candytuft Buddleia...... White Boltonia Kniphofia...... Red Hot Poker Campanula...... Bellflower Lavandula...... Lavender Caryopteris...... Blue Beard Liatris...... Gayfeather Centaurea...... Cornflower Ligustrum...... Common Privet Ceratostigma...... Plumbago Lillium...... Lily Centranthus...... Red Valerian Lobelia...... Cardinal Flower Chrysanthemum...... Hardy Mum Lupinus...... Lupine Chelone...... Pink Turtleheads Monarda...... Bee Balm Coreopsis...... Tickseed Nepeta...... Catmint Crocosmia...... Crocosmia Oenothera...... Sundrops Dianthus...... Sweet William Penstemon...... Beardstongue Dicentra...... Bleeding Heart Potentilla...... Cinquefoil Digitalis...... Foxglove Phlox...... Creeping & Summer Echinacea...... Purple Cone Flower Prunus...... Cherry Rudbeckia...... Black-eyed Susan Vitex...... Chaste Tree

Scabiosa...... Pincushion Flower Sedum...... Stonecrop Bignonia...... Dragon Lady Crossvine Solidago...... Goldenrod Campsis...... Trumpet Creeper Stokesia...... Stoke’s Aster Clematis...... Clematis Verbena...... Verbena Lonicera...... Honeysuckle Veronica...... Speedwell Passiflora...... Hardy Passion Vine Wisteria...... Wisteria Annuals Plants for Egg Laying and/or Larvae Antirrihinum...... Snapdragon Cosmos...... Cosmos Heliotropium...... Heliotrope Perennials Hibiscus...... Hardy Hibiscus, Rose Asclepias...... Butterfly Weed/Milkweed Mallow Aster...... Aster Impatiens...... Impatiens Hosta...... Plaintain Lily Lantana...... Lantana Ornamental Grasses Mimulus...... Mimulus Sedum...... Stonecrop Nicotiana...... Flowering Tobacco

Petunia...... Petunia Annuals Salvia...... Salvia

Tagetes...... French Marigold Daucus...... Queen Ann’s Lace Verbena...... Verbena Tagetes...... French Marigold Viola...... Violet Trifolium...... Clover Zinnia...... Zinnia Viola...... Violet

Shrubs Shrubs

Abelia...... Glossy Abelia Lindera...... Spicebush Althea...... Rose-of-Sharon Vaccinium...... Blueberries Azalea...... Azalea Itea...... Sweetspire

Clethra...... Summersweet Clethra Trees Rhododendron...... Rhododendron Cornus...... Dogwood Salix...... Willow Liriodendron...... Tulip Tree, Tulip Poplar Spirea...... Spirea Magnolia...... Magnolia Syringa...... Common Lilac Prunus...... Cherry Viburnum...... Viburnum Quercus...... Oak Weigela...... Old Fashion Weigela Sassafras...... Sassafras Yucca...... Yucca

Herbs Trees

Chionanthus...... Fringetree Foeniculum...... Fennel Rosemarinus...... Rosemary Petroselinum...... Parsley Cladastis...... Yellowood Laburnum...... Golden Rain Tree Mimosa...... Silk Tree