Butterfly Nectar Food Plants
There will be a $1.00 surcharge on all Plant Orders to California.What is a nectar plant? Why are they important?
Many species of butterflies drink flower nectar. Not all bright colorful flowers are nectar sources. Some flower species are used by some species of butterflies while other flower species are used by other butterflies. Flowers with a long throat are used by butterflies with a long proboscis. Short throat flowers can be used by butterflies with short proboscises.
By Common Name
Aster Symphyotrichum dumosumAnise Hyssop
Autumn Sage Salvia greggii
Batface Cuphea llaeva
Butterfly Bush Buddleia davidii
Button Bush Cephalanthus occidentalis
Candy Corn Cuphea milvillea
Cape Honeysuckle Tecomaria capensis
Cosmos Cosmos sp
False Heather Cuphea hyssopifolia
Firecracker; Upright Russelia sarmentosa
Firecracker; Weeping Rusellia equisetiformis
Frogfruit Lippia nodiflora & lanceolata
Golden Dewdrop Duranta repens
Lemon Marigold Tagetes sp
Liatris Liatris sp.
Loquat Eriobotrya japonica
Mexican Petunia Ruellia brittoniana
Mist Flower Unknown
Morning Glory Ipomea sp.
Oleander Nerium oleander
Periwinkle Vinca major
Philippine Violet Balaria sp.
Plumbago Plumbago sp.
Red Salvia
Rosemary Rosemarinus officinalis
Saltbush Baccharis sp.
Stoke's Aster Stokesia laevis
Summer Farewell Dalea pinnata
Tropical Milkweed Asclepias curassavica
Verbena Verbena canadensis
Veronica Veronica sp.
Wedelia Wedelia sp.
Unknown Mist Flower
Asclepias curassavica Tropical Milkweed
Baccharis sp. Saltbush
Balaria sp. Philippine Violet
Buddleia davidii Butterfly Bush
Cephalanthus occidentalis Button Bush
Cosmos sp Cosmos
Cuphea hyssopifolia False Heather
Cuphea llaeva Batface
Cuphea milvillea Candy Corn
Dalea pinnata Summer Farewell
Duranta repens Golden Dewdrop
Eriobotrya japonica Loquat
Ipomea sp. Morning Glory
Liatris sp. Liatris
Lippia nodiflora & lanceolata Frogfruit
Nerium oleander Oleander
Plumbago sp. Plumbago
Rosemarinus officinalis Rosemary
Ruellia brittoniana Mexican Petunia
Rusellia equisetiformis Firecracker; Weeping
Russelia sarmentosa Firecracker; Upright
Salvia greggii Autumn Sage
Stokesia laevis Stoke's Aster
Symphyotrichum dumosum Aster
Tagetes sp Lemon Marigold
Tecomaria capensis Cape Honeysuckle
Verbena canadensis Verbena
Veronica sp. Veronica
Vinca major Periwinkle
Wedelia sp. Wedelia
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