Find Out Butterfly Friendly Nectar Plants

I have chosen a few butterfly nectar plants and listed some the butterflies those plants will attract just to give you an example of what can be accomplished! If you've been wondering about what kind of plants to put in a butterfly garden, just take a look at the list below! These butterfly nectar plants are sure to draw your favorite butterflies!

Perennial Plants For A Butterfly Garden

I personally prefer perennial gardening and enjoy choosing plants with long bloom times. Check out the benefits of growing an aster! It attracts butterflies, has a long bloom time and will come back year after year, now that's a good bang for your buck, view butterfly garden facts!

Listing by butterfly nectar plant:

Butterfly	Nectar Plant	Plant Height	Bloom Time	Plant Zone	Annual or Perennial
American Painted Lady Butterfly, Black Swallowtail Butterfly, Buckeye, Checkered White Common Sulfur, Cloudless Giant Sulfer, Common Checkered Skipper, Eastern Black Swallowtail, Gray Hairstreak, Great Purple Hairstreak, Gulf Fritillary, Monarch, Orange Sulfur, Question Mark, Painted Lady, Pipevine Swallowtail, Red Admiral, Spicebush Swallowtail, Sleepy Orange, Viceroy Butterfly	Aster Flowers		summer - frost , part shade to full sun	4-8	Perennial
Cloudless Giant Sulfer, Comma, Gulf Fritillary, Monarch, Painted Lady, Red Admiral, Swallowtails (many varieties: Black Swallowtails, Giant Swallowtails, Pipevine Swallowtail, Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly, etc.)	Butterfly Bush	4ft - 12ft	summer - frost, full sun	5-9	Shrub
Cloudless Giant Sulfer, Eastern Black Swallowtail, Pipevine Swallowtail, Spice Bush Swallowtail, Tiger Swallowtail,	Butterfly Weed	2ft	summer, full sun	3-9	Perennial
Cloudless Giant Sulfer, Eastern Black Swallowtail, Giant Swallowtail, Gulf Fritillary, Lilac-Banded Longtail, Monarch,Pipevine Swallowtail, Spicebush Swallowtail, Zebra Longwing	Lantana	3ft - 4ft	all summer, full sun	8-11	Annual or Perennial in zones 8-11
Golden-banded Skipper, Swallowtail	Lilac	3ft - 15ft	spring, full sun	3-7	Shrub
Gray Hairstreak, Lilac-Banded Longtail, Palamedes Swallowtail, Pipevine Swallowtail, Swallowtail	Phlox	2ft - 3ft	mid summer - mid fall, part shade to full sun	3-9	Perennial
Cloudless Giant Sulfer, Common Checkered Skipper, Eastern Black Swallowtail, Gulf Fritillary, Painted Lady, Zebra Swallowtail Butterfly	Zinnia	6in- 2ft	all summer, full sun	3-10	Annual
Common Checkered Skipper, Gray Hairstreak, Gulf Fritillary, Lilac-Banded Longtail, Monarch, Zebra Longwing	Verbena	6in- 1ft	summer - fall, full sun	6-10	Perennial

Monarch Butterfly Plants

However, if you're into annual flowers, the zinnia is a great flower and you can collect the seeds at the end of the season for planting the following year, but leave some seeds for those seed-eating birds!