Central Texas Butterfly Gardening
Nectar Sources and Butterfly Attractants
- Wild onion, Allium canadense (spring)
- 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)
- 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)
- Lemon beebalm (summer)
- Spotted beebalm (summer)
- Common buttonbush (summer)
- Abelia (fall)
- Cardinal flower (summer, fall)
- Climbing hempweed (summer)
- Blazing star (fall)
- 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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