Do you want butterfly visitors or residents? Butterfly residents will be on your property, if you have both host and nectar plants.
Butterfly gardens need both host and nectar plants, preferably prairie plants to attract butterflies. Butterflies lay their eggs on their own preferred host plant, but will feed on many different nectar plants. Most common annual and perennial plants have little or no flower nectar, thus many flower gardens will not have butterflies.
We offer for sale many magnet butterfly nectar and host plants and seeds.
Suggested Butterfly Plants in Bloom:
May-July Golden Alexander
June-August Red Beebalm
July-September Mountain Mint
July-September Purple Coneflower
July-September Bergamot
August-Sept. Sweet Black Eyed Susan
August-Sept. Joe Pye Weed
August-Sept. Meadow Blazingstar
August-Sept. Stiff Goldenrod
August-Sept. New England Aster
Host Plants for Female Butterflies
Monarch-Milkweed (swamp/red preferred)
Mourning Cloak- Birch, Poplar, Willow
Painted Lady-Hollyhock, Sunflower, Thistle
Cabbage White-Cabbage, Nasturtium
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail-Willow, Cherry
Red Admiral-Nettle (False & Burning)
Wood Nymph-Grasses (Bluestem, Wild Oat)
Spangled Fritillary-Violets
Yellow Clouded Sulfur-Alfalfa, Clovers
Viceroy-Willow, Aspen, Cottonwood
Eastern Tailed Blue-Alfalfa, Clover
Giant Swallowtail-Common Rue, Prickly Ash
Black Swallowtail-Dill, Queen Anne’s Lace
Hummingbird Moth- Cranberry, Viburmum
Baltimore Checkerspot- Plantain, Turtlehead
Buckeye-Snapdragon (also vine), Plantain
There are about 40 butterfly species that are located
In Outagamie County, Wisconsin