List of Plants for Butterflies and Hummingbirds

Here's a list of plants for Butterflies and Hummingbirds.
(Please add if you don't find any listed here)

ANNUALS AND BEDDING PLANTS
Begonia (Begonias)
Fuchsia (Fuchsias)
Ipomoea purpurea (Common morning glory)
Lantana camara (Lantana)
Nicotiana alata (Flowering tobacco)
Pelargonium (Geraniums)
Petunia (Petunias)
Phaseolus coccineus (Scarlet runner bean)
Salvia splendens (Scarlet sage)
Tropaeolum majus (Nasturtium)


PERENNIALS
Achillea filipendulina (fern-leaved yarrow)
Alcea rosea (Hollyhock)
Aquilegia (Columbines)
Asclepias tuberosa (Butterfly weeds)
Aster novae-angliae (New England aster)
Astilbe x arendsii (astilbe)
Baptisia australis (Blue false Indigo)
Boltonia asteroides(boltonia)
Campanula (Bellflowers)
Centranthus ruber (red valerian)
Chrysanthemum x superbum (shasta daisy)
Delphinium (Delphiniums)
Dianthus gratiopolitanus (cheddar pinks)
Digitalis (Foxgloves)
Echinacea purpurea (purple coneflower)
Erigeron speciosus (daisy fleabane)
Eupatorium maculatum (spotted Joe-Pye weed)
Eupatorium rugosum (white snakeroot)
Gaillardia x grandiflora (blanket flowers)
Hemerocallis (Daylilies)
Heuchera sanguinea (Coral bells)
Iris (Bearded irises)
Kniphofia uvaria (Torch lily)
Lilium (Lilies)
Lobelia cardinalis (Cardinal flower)
Lupinus polyphyllus (garden lupines)
Lychnix (Campions)
Monarda didyma (Bee balm)
Papaver (Poppies)
Penstemon (Beardtongues)
Phlox paniculata (Border phlox)
Rudbeckia fulgida (orange coneflower)
Salvia officinalis (Common Sage)
Saponaria (Soapworts)
Scabiosa caucasica(pincushion flower)
Sedum spectabile (Showy stonecrop)
Stachys (Betonies)


SHRUBS AND VINES
Buddleia davidii (Butterfly bush)
Campsis radicans (Trumpet vine)
Caragana (Pea shrubs)
Chaenomeles (Flowering quinces)
Cotoneaster (Cotoneasters)
Kolkwitzia amabilis (Beautybush)
Lonicera sempervirens (Trumpet honeysuckle)
Lonicera tatarica (Tatarian honeysuckle)
Ribes sanguineum (Red-flowering currant
Rhododendron (Rhododendrons and azaleas)
Syringa (Lilacs)
Weigela florida (Weigela)

NOTE: Best by choosing Red, Pink, or Oranage varieties. Also, avoid using pesticides.

What a nice long list of butterfly flowers~~ do you have all those in your garden?

I'm interested in the source for your list, creadman~~ is it especially for midwestern butterflies?

Thanks for the post. t.

This is good one.
Cypress Vine, Star Glory, Hummingbird Vine
Ipomoea quamoclit

~Lucy

I can vouch for the trumpet vine "Orange Jubilee". Hummingbirds LOVE this bush. I step out on my back patio several times a day to smoke or talk on the phone and almost every time I see hummingbirds sucking the sweet nectar and playing all over my orange jubilees. So I'm blessed with humming birds throughout the day playing in my yard all thanks to this plant! :)
And did I mention bee's? BEE'S BEE'S BEE'S. I've never seen so many varieties of bees in all my life until Julie started inviting them to my yard :)

This message was edited Jul 18, 2008 2:04 AM

All the lavenders draw butterflies like magnets in my garden.

Zinnias and these are host plants: dill, fennel, parsley.