The following is a brief list of plants you might want to include in a butterfly garden. Your garden center or landscape professional can suggest other varieties appropriate to your climate.

Nectar Plants

Annuals

Cosmos/Cosmos sulphreus

French Marigold/

Tagetes patula

Impatiens/Impatiens wallerana

Moss verbena/Verbena tenuisecta

Zinnia/Zinnia elegans

Perennials

New England aster/Aster novae-angliae

Pineapple sage/Salvia rutilans

Purple Coneflower/Echinacea purpurea

Vervain/Verbena bonariensis

Shrubs

Azalea/Rhododendron spp.

Butterfly bush/Buddleia davidii

Glossy abelia/Abelia x Grandiflora

Host Plants

Butterflyweed/Asclepius tuberosa attracts monarchs

Parsley/Petroselinum crispum attracts black swallowtail

Dill/Anethum graveolens attracts black swallowtail

Blue Passionflower/Passiflora caerulea attracts gulf fritillary

Spicebush/Lindera benzoin attracts spicebush swallowtail