A Monarch Butterfly Habitat, Lanier Village Estates

What type of BUTTERFLIES are you trying to attract?

Particularly monarch butterflies, but also swallowtails, fritillary, painted lady, and red admiral butterflies

What NECTAR and HOST plants are in your garden?

Asclepias Incarnata (Swamp Milkweed)
Asclepias Tuberosa (Butterfly Milkweed)
Asclepias Currasavica (Tropical Milkweed) – carefully controlled
Butterfly bush
Vervain / Verbena
Siphilitica blue – Great Lobelia
Red Cardinal Flower – Lobelia
Speedwell / Veronica (3 kinds)
Lantana
Early Sunrise Coreopsis
Arizona Sandstone Hummingbird Mint
Red Hot Poker
Eutrochium purpureum – Sweet Joe Pye Weed
Bee Balm / Bergamot (Monarda)
Penstemon barbatus / Beard Tongue
Catmint (Nepeta)
Ironweed (Vernonia)
Black-eyed Susan
Cosmos sulphureus
Zinnias
Salvia
Chives
French Marigolds