Native Butterfly Host & Food Plants: Mid-Atlantic Region

For more information on these plants- photos, height, color, bloom time, conditions, wildlife they attract, etc.- you can order a free copy (or view online) the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service guide Native Plants for Wildlife Habitat & Conservation Landscaping: Chesapeake Bay Watershed.

Bee Balm (spotted; Oswego)
Blue Mistflower
Blue Phlox
Blue Vervain
Butterfly Milkweed (aka Butterflyweed)
Butterfly Pea (vine)
Buttonbush
Columbine
Common Blue Violet
Common Milkweed (#1 for attracting, hosting & feeding monarchs!)
Fall Phlox
Flame azalea
Frost Aster
Goldenrods
Greenheaded coneflower
Hyssop Thoroughwort
Iron weed
Joe-pye weed
Lupine
Maryland Golden Aster
Moss Phlox
New England Aster (beautiful fall bloomer!)
New York Ironweed
Orange coneflower
Pipevine (vine)
Pink Fuzzybean (vine)
Purple Coneflower
Spicebush (mmm...crush a leaf and smell it!)
Sweet Pepperbush
Turtlehead (#1 for attracting endangered Baltimore Checkerspot butterfly!)
Wild Bergamot (aka: Horsemint)



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