Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Starting a Butterfly Garden - zone5, questions, 1 by pennefeather

pennefeather wrote:
I would add common magnus (purple coneflowers). I saw more butterflies with them than any other flower in my garden. You can start them from seed and they will bloom the first year. Don't spend you money on the newer strains, stick with the originals. I probably have five or six different coneflowers, but magnus was the only one that I saw butterflies flocking to.

I also noticed alot of interest in liatris, which also blooms the first year from the bulbs. I had purple and white liatris, but they seemed to like both of them. I read somewhere that the butterflies prefer taller plants.