Some suggestions provided by Rick Mikula
Some suggestions provided by Rick Mikula
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There are many choices of butterfly friendly plants so think of your garden as a fresh canvas, your spades and pitch forks are brushes, and your choice of flowers whether they are annuals or perennials as your palate, and then paint your self a masterpiece. |
| PERENNIALS Asters Bee Balm-Bergamot Butterfly bush (buddleia) Butterfly weed Coreopsis Hollyhock Lavender Lupine Mints Passionflower Phlox Purple coneflower Salvia Shasta daisy Thistles Violet White or Red clover Yarrow |
BLOOMING PERIOD late summer to fall summer through fall mid-summer to fall summer through fall all summer summer summer late spring to early summer all summer summer to fall all summer late summer into fall summer into fall  summerlate spring through fall spring summer mid to late summer |
| BIENNIALS Black-eyed-Susan Red Clover Queen Anne's lace Sweet William |
BLOOMING PERIOD summer to fall summer late spring through fall spring through early summer |
| ANNUALS Alyssum Candy Tuft Common Stock Cornflower Cosmos Dianthus Heliotrope (perennial in South) Impatiens Lobelia Marigold Mexican sunflower Nasturtium Parsley  Sage Salvia Scabiosa Sweet William Verbena Zinnia |
BLOOMING PERIOD summer to mid-fall spring to summer spring to summer summer late summer to fall spring to fall late spring to summer summer through fall summer into fall summer into fall summer into fall late summer green from spring to fall summer to fall summer through fall summer through fall summer into fall spring to fall mid-summer to fall |
| SHRUBS Shrubs and trees are great for the butterfly habitat they can provide much needed protection from wind and predators. If you happen to live in a windy area place you higher growing plants in a position to block the garden from the wind. You will also notice that many tree are also host plants to many butterflies and a large population of moths. |
| Button Bush (Cephalanthus) Caryopteris (Caryopteris) Crown Flower (Calitropis) Firebush (Hamelia) Honeysuckle (Lonicera) Lilac (Syringa) Mock-Orange (Philadelphus) New Jersey Tea (Ceanothus) Powder-Puff (Calliandra) Spicebush (Lindera) Trumpet vine (Campsis) Viburnum (Viburnum) |
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| TREES Trees serve many purposes for butterflies and many of the Swallowtails use then as host plants. They can add structure and aesthetic flow to your design. Can you center your garden around the existing trees provide shade and privacy? Trees are there for a long time and costly to remove later, so think about them before you plant. Willows should not be placed near water pipes. The roots will crush them as they search for water. Willows will also drip all over your car with messy dew that is horrible to remove. Many towns also have shade tree commissions with tons of rule and regulations concerning their plantings. Annuals are one thing, but a tree is going to hang around for a while. So decide and choose them cautiously. |
| Aspen Bottlebrush Cherry Citrus Elms Eucalyptus Hackberry Live Oak Oak Sweet Bay Tulip Popular Willows |
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| CONTAINER PLANTS FOR FULL SUN |
| Center Heliotrope Aster Hibiscus flower Lantana Pentas Globe Thistle Foxglove Lavender |
Middle Verbena Snap dragon Marigold Zinnia Nicotiana Dahlia Stonecrop Thrift |
Edge Alyssum Vinca vine Straw Portulaca Gypsophila Pincushion Violet Pansy |
| HERBS FOR BUTTERFLIES
Anise |
HOST PLANT TO: Anise & Black swallowtail |
| Clover Dock Wild Ginger Hop Vine Hyssop (water) Marjoram Mallow Mints Mustards Nasturtium Nettle Pennyroyal Plantain Rue  SageSassafras Thyme Vervain Violet |
Coppers Pipevine Tortoise Shell, Red Admiral White Peacock Sootywings Painted lady, Hairstreak, Skippers Gray Hairstrerak, Smaller lantana Orange Tips, Marblewings Cabbage White, Spring Azure Question Mark, Comma, Red Admiral Variegrated Fritillary, Checkerspots, Buckeye, Black and Giant Swallowtail Spicebush and Palamedes swallowtail Checkerspot Fritillaries |
| And just in case no one else sends one in here is a list for Alaska. |
| ALASKA FLOWERS Indian potato (Hedysarum alpinum) Dame's rocket (Hesperis matronalis) Wild sweet pea (Hedysarum Mackenzii) Shasta daisy (Chrysanthemum maximum) Tall Jacob's ladder (Polemonium acutiflorum) Shirley poppy (Papaver rhoeas) Dwarf Jacob's ladder (Polemonium pulcherrimum) California poppy (Eschscholzia californica) Strawberry spinach (Chenopodium capitatum) Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) Yellow hawkweed (Hieracium scabruisculum) Rocky Mountain penstemon (Penstemon Goldenrod (Solidago multiradiata) strictus) Burnet (Sanguisorba officinalis)  Wild chamomile(TripleurospermumYarrow (Achillea borealis) inodoratum) Siberian aster (Aster sibiricus) Wild iris (Iris setosa) Arctic lupine (Lupinus arcticus) Arnica (Arnica alpina) |
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Here is a list that Hummingbirds and BUTTERFLIES will share |
| *Butterfly Bush *Bee Balm *Flowering Tobacco *Trumpet Vine *Morning Glory *Verbena *Lupine *Scarlet Sage *Nasturium *Fox Glove *Hibiscus |
* Tulip Tree Popular *Lantana *Zinnia *Hollyhock *Butterfly Weed *Phlox *Sweet William *Scarlet Runner bean * Cardinal Flower *Honeysuckle *Azaleas |
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This information was provided by Rick Mikula our butterfly expert a.k.a. the Grandfather of Butterflies. |
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For further information, pending announcement of the new committee, please contact any Board member. |
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