Butterfly Plants Plants For Sale In Lincoln

Porterweeds are excellent nectar producers outperforming nearly all other butterfly plants in the garden. 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...

Drought tolerant, deer resistant, and reliable. A must have perennial! Early Bird Gold Rudbeckia produces wave after wave of bright golden yellow, 3-4" daisies from late spring to fall on a nicely branching plant.

Blooms from late spring through summer. Each golden yellow petal is heavily splashed with burgundy and surround the tall brown central cone of each daisy-like flower. This is a tough and hardy, perennial US Native.

Cloud Eight is a semi-dwarf selection of Purole-Top Vervain with a compact and free flowering habit. Clusters of rich purple flowers are produced on sturdy stems atop the medium green foliage from spring through summer and into fall.

Once again we should all thank Greg Grant for another excellent selection! This tough little sage was found growing in a cemetery with no care except for the periodic weed eater for pruning.

Coral Honeysuckle or Trumpet Honeysuckle is a native vine that is vigorous and easy to grow as well as easy to control, unlike its white and yellow Japanese cousin. Attracts hummingbirds and occasional butterflies.

The trailing Verbenas are one of the earliest flowering perennials in our gardens and provide the early hummingbirds and butterflies with plenty of choice nectar at a time when few other perennials are in flower.

The Butterfly Series Pentas are excellent heat and humidity tolerant free flowering Pentas with a medium sized well-branched growth habit. The Butterfly Series Pentas have been selected as a 2012 Louisiana Super Plant! Give it a rich fertile soil and...

The flowers attract a large variety of pollinators including bees, hummingbirds, butterflies, and other garden beneficials. The Fragrant White Mistflower produces clusters of fragrant, white, nectar-rich flowers in fall just as the Monarch butterflies...

A Dawn Stover Nifty Fifty favorite herbaceous plant! Dawn is a Research Associate at Stephen F Austin in Nacogdoches, TX and currently maintains the Mast Arboretum plant collection.

Deadheading is not required but removing spent flowers will help the plant look 'cleaner'. The 'red' coloration of this butterfly magnet is often most pronounced in southern climates.

This naturally sprawling vine-like shrub can easily be pruned to produce a dense mass of foliage and flowers. Sweetly fragrant clusters of 2", star-like, pure white blooms are produced continuously throughout the summer months against a rich glossy green...

Nitida have sometimes been grouped as one species. The Texas Coneflower is found only in Louisiana and SE Texas. Excellent deer resistance. A good nectar and pollen source for pollinators.

Deadheading is not required but removing spent flowers will help the plant look 'cleaner'. Miss Pearl is the latest release in the Miss series from the breeding work of Dr. Dennis Werner at North Carolina State University where he has developed sterile...

Zagreb Coreopsis is slightly more compact than Moonbeam. Drought tolerant and deer resistant. Provide Zagreb Coreopsis with good drainage and medium to low moisture. Deadheading will help ensure a fall repeat.

Images courtesy of North Creek Nurseries. Henry Eilers Sweet Coneflower was discovered in Illinois in a prairie remnant along a railroad. This Rudbeckia is unusual in that it will grow and flower quite well even under deciduous shade.

In the milder portions of its growing range the Winter Cassia may remain semi-evergreen. Winter Cassia has the potential to reseed and may be considered invasive in some areas. Be sure to consult your state and local agriculture offices before planting.

Shade tolerant, deer resistant, moderately salt tolerant, and moderately drought resistant once they are well-established and few plants can compete for adaptability. In mild winter climates they can get fairly large but are certainly amenable to pruning.

It produces large clusters of white flowers sometimes tinged with pink or purple that attract a variety of pollinators. The seed for these originated in the southern most portions of Texas.

The fuzzy foliage and stems are utilized by Gulf Fritillary, Zebra Longwings and other Heliconian butterfly caterpillars. In order to produce their delicious tangy tropical tasting fruit Passionflowers must be cross-pollinated by another seedling, species,...

The deep reddish-pink bloom spikes are borne atop this compact and profuse blooming butterfly bush. Deadheading is not required but removing spent flowers will help the plant look 'cleaner'.Buddleias can grow to become largeshrub-like perennials in mild...

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.

This is a tough and easy pinewoods native plant that is great for butterflies and pollinators. 3-4" light pink to purplish pink coneflowers with drooping petals are held high above the foliage on sturdy stems.

Masses of tall wispy deep pink spikes are covered by a succession of large pink butterfly-like flowers throughout summer. A tough and hardy, drought tolerant, perennial US Native.

A nearly endless procession of vivid, deep bluish-purple flower clusters are born in mass above the low, ferny foliage of this wonderful free-flowering perennial Verbena. Use Blue-Violet Tapien Verbena as a groundcover, a spiller in containers, or as...

We suspect that this may be the same as the cultivar sold as 'Big Swing' but we cannot fully attest to that at this point. Although it lacks any cold hardiness it is certainly worthy as a container plant or treat it as an annual except in frost free areas.

A low maintenance native perennial that grows from a bulb-like corm that will produce more and more flowering stems the larger and older it gets. One of the smaller growing and longer flowering Blazingstars with good drought resistance once well-established.