Butterfly Attracting Perennials

A few of our favorite perennials for attracting butterflies. Put these into your garden to bring those beautiful flying friends into your yard!

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This is a sample garden bed in our nursery yard that showcases a lot of great perennials and annuals that will draw butterflies to your garden. Perennials pictured are: lilac, sedum, yarrow, and salvia. The annuals in this bed are petunias, lantana, and verbena.
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Again, these annual petunias (Supertunia Bordeaux) work well with your perennials to attract butterflies to your gardens or planters.
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Daylily, a great perennial for attracting butterflies to your garden.
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With its red color, this daylily will appeal to both butterflies and hummingbirds.
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White coreopsis will attract plenty of butterflies as well.
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Yarrow is a great late season perennial for attracting butterflies to your garden.
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A good variety of coneflowers to add color and attract butterflies to your garden.
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As you can see, the bees love coneflowers, and butterflies do too!
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This yellow coneflower will bring the butterflies flocking in as well.
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Another variety of corepsis, or tickseed that will bring butterflies flocking to your garden.
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Rudbeckia, commonly called Black-Eyed Susan, is another great late season perennial for attracting butterflies to your garden
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Allium will attract both butterflies and bumblebees to your garden.
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If you take this white coneflower home to your own garden, the butterfly may just follow!
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Butterflies love our lilac bushes!
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While roses are already a popular shrub, not everybody knows that butterflies love them too.
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Lilacs, sedum, and yarrow all pictured here grow well together and attract tons of butterflies.
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Spirea, a popular small shrub, will flower in the late summer and the butterflies love them.
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When this sedum flowers, the butterflies will flock to them. Do you have sedum in your garden?
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Another rose that will attract butterflies to your garden.
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Butterfly weed, a variety of milkweed, is a favorite of all butterflies.
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The butterfly weed is especially good for attracting the Monarch butterflies.

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