What type of BUTTERFLIES are you trying to attract?
Swallowtails (Black, Eastern Tiger, Spicebush, Zebra, Palamedes); Duskywings (Sleepy, Juvenal’s, Horace’s, Wild Indigo); Skippers (Common Checkered, Meske’s, Tawny-edged, Crossline, Delaware, Dun, Brazilian, Cofaqui); Hairstreaks (Juniper, Coral, Banded, Striped, Red-banded, Gray, White M,); Summer Azure; Monarch; Fritillaries (Gulf, Variegated); Zebra Heliconian; Red-spotted Purple; Checkerspots (Gorgone, Phaon, Baltimore); Pearl Crescent; Appalachian Brown; Gemmed Satyr; Common Wood Nymph; Common Buckeye; American Lady
What NECTAR and HOST plants are in your garden?
NECTAR: butterfly weed, Joe Pye weed, mountain-mint, phlox, wild bergamot, purple coneflowers, sunflowers, asters, black-eyed Susan, boltonia , false sunflower, beardtongue, wild columbine, goldenrods, blazing star, boneset, yarrow, hyssop, bluestars, swamp milkweed, wild false indigos, tickseeds, rattlesnake master, swamp hibiscus, blue flag iris, obedient plant, stokes aster, creeping verbena, Culver’s root, native azaleas, fire pink, bottlebrush buckeye, summersweet, blue mistflower, blanket flower, cardinal flower, great blue lobelia, beebalm, passionflower, prairie coneflower, cut-leaf coneflower, scarlet sage, downy skullcap, ironweed
HOSTS: golden alexander, tulip poplar, northern spicebush, sassafras, sweetbay, pawpaw, white oak, red oak, wild indigos, rosemallows, little bluestem, panic grass, switchgrass, sedges, arrowroot, yucca filamentosa, eastern red cedar, Chickasaw plum, blueberries, wax Myrtle, native azaleas, mountain-mint, butterfly weed, swamp milkweed, passionflower, violets, serviceberry, New Jersey tea, woodland sunflower, mouse-eared coreopsis, frogfruit, white turtlehead, River oats, wild petunia, blue mistflower, boneset, white wood aster, ironweed, blazing star