Butterfly Plants Plants For Sale In Clearwater

The Betonyleaf Mistflower is a native shrub-like perennial with a naturally rounded mounding and spreading habit. Providing a well-draining site will be key to helping it survive the winter as well as a loose breathable mulch such as pinestraw.

It is also known as Pink Porterweed, Orange Porterweed, Pink Snakeweed. In zone 10 it is likely to be a reliable perennial if not evergreen. 1/2" salmon pink blooms adorn the long spike-like bloom stems from spring to frost.

Provide ample sunlight and good drainage. First image courtesy of Kieft Seed Flowers the first year! Echinacea or Purple Coneflowers are beautiful and hardy, clump forming fibrous rooted or taprooted North American native perennials that attract butterflies...

An endless display of huge purple tubular flowers that emerge from dark colored calyxes are borne from spring to frost on this vigorous growing hybrid Salvia. An application of fertilizer at this time may also be beneficial in spurring flower production.

The tall sturdy spikes of this Liatris quickly develop white pearl-like buds that open to clusters of lavender flowers. No staking is required for this beautiful native clump-forming cormous perennial.

Glossy rich green foliage. It has been known to spread by rhizomes but under most conditions stays neatly where it's put and where hardy will return year after year. Provide full to partial sun with average drainage with average moisture for best results.

The huge, to 6", golden, daisy-like blooms with tall dark brown cones or eyes are held on tall sturdy stems which can grow to 7' or more! A tough and hardy, native perennial. To read more about this "stately coneflower", as Dr. Neil Odenwald puts it,...

Clusters of deep orange 2" tubular flowers with yellow throats are held above the rich blue-green foliage of this selection of the tame native Coral Honeysuckle. This easily grown evergreen vine is an excellent choice for hummingbirds and butterflies...

4-5" wide flowers with white petals and sepals are topped by a crown of white filaments with a light purple halo surrounding the central portion of these exotic looking flowers. To learn more see the Passionfruit datasheet by Purdue Horticulture: https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/passionfruit.html#Varieties...

The Flutterby Petite Tutti Fruitti Pink Butterfly Bush was selected as a Louisiana Super Plant by the LSU Agcenter in 2014. Buddleias or Butterfly Bushes do best where they have good drainage and prefer a full to mostly sunny position for the best overall...

Lecompte Vitex is noted for its extra large 8-12" spikes of purple-blue flowers that are born from late spring to fall. Removing spent flowers and seed heads will promote the production of wave after wave of new flowers throughout the summer and into...

The Dwarf Pawpaw produces 3-5" green-yellow elongated fruit that eventually turn brown to nearly black when ripe. A caterpillar host plant of the Zebra Swallowtail Butterfly. Seedling grown.

The Cutleaf Coneflower produces 2-4" wide, drooping yellow daisies that are centered by a small dark cone in summer. The flowers are produced on tall, narrow but sturdy stems and flowers are produced singly and in small clusters.

The Achillea's fragrant foliage deters deer and rabbits. If drainage is an issue use a sandy gravelly soil as this drought resistant yarrow makes an easy container plant. Proper deadheading may encourage the show to return in fall.

Somewhat drought resistant once well-established. Easy to grow and deer and pest resistant. Clusters of tiny, light pink, tubular flowers are encircled by a mass of velvety white, bract-like leaves in mid to late summer.

One of the darkest blue flowers for the perennial garden Kobalt Salvia, an Anise Sage, is much enjoyed by hummingbirds and larger butterflies. Provide full to partial sun with average drainage with average moisture for best results.

A tight compact mound of blue-green foliage is topped with spikes of lilac colored, fragrant flowers. Buddlejas are considered invasive in some regions please check with your local state offices before purchasing.

Wonderfully fragrant of licorice or anise when bruised or dried, Sweet Goldenrod produces medium to large pyramidal clusters of golden yellow flowers in summer that are excellent for attracting pollinators and other beneficials.

3-4" wide, yellow, sunflower-like flowers are born on 4-8'H+ sturdy stems over an extended period in summer on this durable, native, clump-forming, tap-rooted perennial. The dark green, deeply dissected foliage of the Compass Plant was used as a compass...

This is one of the few plants that you will find consistently at nearly every butterfly conservatory. I would be surprised to find a plant that produces a more continuous supply of nectar rich flowers from summer to frost, even most Lantana has to catch...

Wow! Excellent flower power on a vigorous vine, Aphrodite's Purple Nightietm Passion Flower produces an explosion of 3-4" wide flowers composed of purple petals and sepals that are topped by a crown of deep purple, blue, and white filaments.

The American Elderberry has huge flat clusters of tiny white flowers followed by a heavy crop of shiny black fruit. These were grown from locally collected seed. A mulch will also provide many benefits as well.

Considered by many to be the best of the Mountainmints, Clustered Mountainmint produces an abundance of tiny whitish tubular blooms touched with purple or lavender in tight clusters held above the attractive bluish white bracts.

A tight compact mound of blue-green foliage is topped with spikes of lilac colored, fragrant flowers. Buddlejas are considered invasive in some regions please check with your local state offices before purchasing.

Great for hot sunny positions but will also tolerate part sun as well. Pentas are considered to be deer resistant and moderately salt tolerant. Give your Pentas a rich fertile soil and periodic water during dry spells.

The sweetly scented foliage gives it its common name. This Rudbeckia is unusual in that it will grow and flower quite well even under deciduous shade. Henry Eilers Sweet Coneflower was discovered in Illinois in a prairie remnant along a railroad.

Clusters of deep orange 2" tubular flowers with yellow throats are held above the rich blue-green foliage of this selection of the tame native Coral Honeysuckle. This easily grown evergreen vine is an excellent choice for hummingbirds and butterflies...