Plants That Attract Butterflies
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Plants That Attract Butterflies Butterflies are attracted to plants to feed or to lay eggs. Flowers such as asters and gaillardia are the favorite food of Skipper in the autumn. Plants such as butterfly weed are fed on by caterpillars. This family of plants is the sole food source of Monarch Butterfly caterpillars. All members of the cabbage family will attract the cabbage moth, which is actually a small white or yellow butterfly. The green caterpillars feed on cabbage. Sun Aster Aster Bearded Tongue Bee Balm Blanket Flower Blue Sage Butterfly Bush Butterfly Weed Cat Mint Flowering Cabbage Flowering Maple Flowering Sage Flowering Tobacco Garden Phlox Garden Pinks Gayfeather Globe Thistle Hibiscus Joepye Weed Lantana Lavender Mexican Sage Oregano Painted Tongues Petunia Purple Cone Flower Red Hot Poker Ruella Shrinp Plant Verbena Veronica Annual Perennial Perennial Perennial Perennial Perennial Perennial Perennial Perennial Annual Annual Annual Annual Perennial Perennial Perennial Perennial Annual Perennial Annual Perennial Annual Perennial Annual Annual Perennial Perennial Annual Annual Annual Perennial Part Sun Red, Pink, White Pink, Purple, Blue White, Pink Purple, Red Red, Orange Purple Purple, White Orange, Pink, White Blue Purple, Red, White Red, Yellow Purple, Red Red, White White, Purple, Red White, Purple, Red Purple, White Blue Red, White Pink Purple, White Purple Red Pink Various Colors Purple, Red, White Purple, White Red, Orange Red White, Yellow Purple, Red, White Purple, Pink Blue Bells Monkey Flower Bleeding Hearts Columbine Coral Bells Annual Annual Perennial Perennial Perennial Blue, White Red Pink, White Purple, White, Red Red, White Shade Impatiens Fuschia Cardinal Flower Hosta Annual Annual Perennial Perennial White, Red, Purple Purple, White Blue, White, Red White Vines & Shrubs Cardinal Vine Hyacinth Bean Morning Glory Canary Vine Crape Myrtle Wisteria Honeysuckle Sweet Autumn Clematis Trumpet Vine Azalea Blue Mist Summer Sweet Cotoneaster Sweet Spire Cinquefoil Rhododendron Spirea Lilac Viburnum Weigela Annual Vine Annual Vine Annual Vine Annual Vine Annual Shrub Perennial Vine Perennial Vine Perennial Vine Perennial Vine Shrub Shrub Shrub Shrub Shrub Shrub Shrub Shrub Shrub Shrub Shrub Red Dark Pink White, Purple Yellow Pink, White White, Purple Red, Yellow, Pink White Red, Orange, Yellow Pink, Red, White Blue White, Pink White, Pink White Red, Yellow, White Pink, Red, White Pink, Red, White Pink, Red, White White, Pink Red, White
