Central Texas Butterfly Gardening

Nectar Sources and Butterfly Attractants

  • Wild onion, Allium canadense (spring)

      Wild onion

  • Wild garlic, Allium drummondii (early spring)
  • Epidendrum paniculatum, orchid (fall, attracts monarchs)
  • Agarita, Berberis trifoliata (spring)
  • Laurel cherry (spring)
  • Escarpment black cherry, Prunus serotina eximia (spring)
  • Texas almond, Prunus minutiflora (spring)
  • Mexican plum, Prunus mexicana (spring)
  • Hog plum (spring)
  • Redbud (spring)
  • Kidneywood (summer)
  • Plains sumac (summer)
  • Evergreen sumac (fall)
  • Fragrant sumac (spring)
  • Soapberry, Sapindus drummondii (early summer)
  • Condalia hookeri (spring)
  • Mexican buckeye, Ungnadia speciosa (spring)
  • Grapes (fall, fermenting fruit on the ground)
  • Pepper vine (summer)
  • Turk's cap (summer, fall)

      Turk's cap

  • Wild carrot (summer)
  • Elbow bush (spring)
  • Wand butterfly-bush (summer)
  • Butterfly weed (summer)
  • Blue-curls, Phacelia congesta (summer)
  • Anacua (spring)
  • Heliotrope (fall, drying foliage attracts monarchs)
  • Rose vervain (spring, summer, fall)
  • Texas lantana (summer, fall)
  • West Indian lantana (summer, fall)
  • Bushy lippia (summer, fall)
  • Redbrush lippia (summer, fall)
  • Northern frogfruit (spring, summer, fall)
  • White brush (summer, fall)
  • Mealy sage (summer)
  • Tropical sage (summer, fall)
  • Wild bergamot (summer)

      Wild bergamot

  • Lemon beebalm (summer)
  • Spotted beebalm (summer)
  • Common buttonbush (summer)
  • Abelia (fall)
  • Cardinal flower (summer, fall)
  • Climbing hempweed (summer)
  • Blazing star (fall)

      Blazing star

  • Blue boneset (summer, fall)
  • Shrubby boneset (fall, winter)
  • Roosevelt weed (fall)
  • Camphorweed (fall)
  • Cowpen daisy (summer, fall)
  • Frostweed (fall)
  • Spanish needles (summer, fall)
  • Palafoxia (summer, fall)

Created:  15 April 1998
Last updated:  30 January 2003

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