Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: What's a good NECTAR plant for butterflies in your yard?, 1 by beckygardener

beckygardener wrote:
I thought I'd start this thread to list what are good nectar plants for the butterflies which you have observed in your garden. I also realize that during different seasons, the butterflies often go to different plants.

Here's the favorites I have noticed in my yard:

Lantana - Especially the cultivar that has the multi-colored yellow/orange/red blooms! They seem to be the prefered Lantana in my garden for ALL butterflies.
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/578/

In the Spring, the Trailing Lavender Lantana is a big draw. The Skipper Butterflies especially love the the blooms on this one.
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/2042/

Porterweed - The purple/blue blooming cultivar is a butterfly magnet in my yard! It grows to be a very large bush covered with spikes of small flowers. I have never seen volunteer seedlings from this bush and I've had it several years. I prune it back from time to time. I grows very quickly!
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/51475/

Zinnia - I have many different cultivars of this plant in my yard. The butterflies go to all of them. Big or small blooms!
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/143/

So tell me ...... What's growing and blooming in your yard that bring in the butterflies to stop and drink?