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Sweet Coneflower
Prices start at : 7.99 USD

These Rudbeckia's are good for attracting smaller butterflies and it seems that the Red Banded Hairstreak is one to find its nectar attractive. A vigorous clump forming perennial common to stream banks and moist areas but will do fine in average garden...
  • Container Size: 3.5 inch / 16 fl.oz. / 473 ml
  • Native To / Origin: US- Eastern central
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 4,5,6,7,8,9
  • Grows To: 4-6'H x 2-3'W
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Hybrid Blue Arrowleaf Sage
Prices start at : 5.99 USD

The nectar rich flowers attract hummingbirds and butterflies. Salvias are considered the #1 plant for Hummingbirds with their tubular flowers designed for pollination by these amazing flyers.
  • Container Size: 3.5 inch / 16 fl.oz. / 473 ml
  • Grows To: 24-48''H x 12-16''W
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 10,11
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Blue Porterweed
Prices start at : 8.99 USD

This is one of the few plants that you will find consistently at nearly every butterfly conservatory. Please plant this species responsibly as it is considered to have the potential to escape although it is not listed as a Noxious Weed at the time of...
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 9B,10,11
  • Fertilizing: Spring-frost or year round in warm, frost free conditions.
  • Container Size: 3.5 inch SQ / 16 fl.oz. / 473 ml
  • pH Range: Acidic, Mildly Acidic, Neutral
  • Native To / Origin: American Tropics
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Herbstonne or Autumn Sun Green Eyed Coneflower, Shining Coneflower
Prices start at : 9.99 USD

'Autumn Sun' is a synonym of 'Herbstonne'. In 2002 Herbstonne Rudbeckia received the Royal Horticulture Society's Award of Garden Merit! One of our favorites! There has been much confusion as to exact parentage/species of this excellent cultivar though...
  • Deer Resistance: Not Normally Bothered
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 5,6,7,8,9
  • Grows To: 4-6'H x 18-24"W, space at 12" for groundcover
  • Soil & Moisture: Average to moderately moist, fertile soils.
  • Native To / Origin: US Native developed in German Gardens
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Nova Pentas, Egyptian Star Cluster
Prices start at : 7.99 USD

In the northern portions of their hardiness range provide mulch to help ensure their return for the following season. Pentas are considered to be deer resistant and moderately salt tolerant.
  • Container Size: 3.5 inch / 16 fl.oz. / 473 ml
  • Indoor Light: Direct sunlight
  • Deer Resistance: Rarely Bothered
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun, Part shade
  • pH Range: Acidic, Mildly Acidic
  • Salt Tolerance: Moderate
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Dwarf Red Porterweed
Prices start at : 8.99 USD

Porterweed is known to reseed particularly in mild winter climates. Another of the smaller varieties creating a dense bush with loads of nectar rich flowers for the butterflies and hummingbirds.
  • Fertilizing: Spring-frost or year round in warm, frost free conditions.
  • Native To / Origin: South America
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun, Part shade
  • Pruning: Not needed except to remove spent flower stems though it's not required, pinch to improve branching.
  • Soil & Moisture: Average moist, well-drained soil.
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Wedelia, Yellow Creeping Ox-Eye Daisy, Yellow Dots
Prices start at : 5.99 USD

Drought tolerant once established, Wedelia revels in the heat and sun creating a dense 8-12" high mass of foliage, stems and flowers. Wedelia is highly salt tolerant and is considered drought tolerant enough to be used in Xeriscapes.
  • Native To / Origin: US-FL, C and S Americas, W Indies
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun, Part shade, Light shade
  • Salt Tolerance: High tolerance of soil and spray salts
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 8,9,10,11
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Vining Maple, Red Wings, Mariposa
Prices start at : 14.99 USD

Grow Redwings as a vine or a sprawling shrub preferably in a sunny location and it should reward you for many years to come. Redwing, Vining Maple, and Mariposa are among its many names, whatever you choose to call it this rather hardy vine with tropical...
  • Indoor Light: Direct sunlight
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 7,8,9,10
  • Soil & Moisture: Average moisture, well-drained soils. Does well under average garden conditions. Moderate drought resistance once well-established.
  • Grows To: Vine to 15'L, Shrub to 4'H
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Yellow Butterfly Vine, Yellow Orchid Vine, Mascagnia, Butterfly Pea Vine, Gallinita
Prices start at : 12.99 USD

This woody naturally evergreen vine can also be grown as a mounding shrub to 4-6' high. Where hardiness is a consideration plant as early in the year as possible to help them get well established before winter.
  • pH Range: Acidic, Mildly Acidic, Neutral, Mildly Alkaline
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 8,9,10,11,(7?)
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun, Part shade
  • Soil & Moisture: Average moist, moderately fertile, well-drained soils for the best flowering, moderately drought resistant once well-established.
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Lavender Porterweed
Prices start at : 6.99 USD

In zone 10 it is likely to be a reliable perennial if not evergreen. This is one of the few plants that you will find consistently at nearly every butterfly conservatory. Porterweed is known to reseed particularly in mild winter climates.
  • Pruning: Not needed except to remove spent flower stems though it's not required, pinch to improve branching.
  • Native To / Origin: American Tropics
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun, Part shade
  • Soil & Moisture: Average moist, well-drained soils.
  • Grows To: 3-4'H x 3'W
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Pink Rose of Montana, Coral Vine
Prices start at : 9.99 USD

It dies to the ground in winter, but faithfully returns from the ground each spring. On a recent trip to west Texas we saw a Coral Vine that must have had 50 or more butterflies on one plant! Rose of Montana is considered invasive in some regions, please...
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun, Part shade
  • Container Size: 3.5 inch / 16 fl.oz. / 473 ml
  • Native To / Origin: Mexico
  • pH Range: Mildly Acidic, Neutral, Mildly Alkaline
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Possum Purple Fruiting Passion Vine, Passionflower, Passionvine
Prices start at : 12.99 USD

To learn more see the Passionfruit datasheet by Purdue Horticulture: https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/passionfruit.html#Varieties Possum Purple is considered to be a self pollinating Passionfruit but having another cultivar for cross pollination...
  • pH Range: Mildly Acidic, Neutral
  • Soil & Moisture: Average moist, fertile, well-drained soils.
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun, Part shade
  • Grows To: 12-24'H
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Clustered Mountainmint, Bigleaf Mountain Mint, Short-Toothed Mountainmint, Sage
Prices start at : 6.99 USD

The bracts are probably more showy than the flowers but the flowers attract loads of pollinators including bees and small butterflies. This is a durable and slowly spreading native perennial that flowers throughout the summer months.
  • Container Size: 4.5 inch / 20 fl.oz. / 591 ml
  • Deer Resistance: Not Normally Bothered
  • Native To / Origin: US- Eastern and South Central
  • pH Range: Acidic, Mildly Acidic, Neutral
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Silver Spires White Vitex, Chaste Tree
Prices start at : 12.99 USD

These durable and easily grown shrubs are basically pest and disease free, are deer resistant, and are moderately salt tolerant. Removing spent flowers and seed heads will promote the production of wave after wave of new flowers throughout the summer...
  • Grows To: 10-15'H x 12-15'W
  • Deer Resistance: Rarely Bothered
  • Native To / Origin: Gardens
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 7,8,9,10,11
  • pH Range: Acidic, Mildly Acidic, Neutral, Mildly Alkaline, Alkaline
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Sanguin Purple Cone Flower, coneflower
Prices start at : 7.99 USD

Flowers begin in May and may continue through August. This is considered to be the Southernmost of the Echinaceas making it an excellent addition to the perennial garden. This is a tough and easy pinewoods native plant that is great for butterflies and...
  • Deer Resistance: Rarely Bothered
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 8,9
  • Grows To: 12-24''H x 12''W
  • Native To / Origin: Central & Eastern US
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Mexican Butterfly Weed (Orange) , Blood Flower, Indian Root, Swallow-wort
Prices start at : 5.99 USD

Raise Monarch Butterflies in your own backyard! The Monarchs migrate through our area just as the Asclepias begin to awaken in spring, just in time for the females to lay their eggs on the new growth.
  • Deer Resistance: Seldom Bothered
  • Grows To: 4'H x 2'W
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 8B,9,10,11
  • Container Size: 3.5 inch / 16 fl.oz. / 473 ml
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun
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Missy Puryear\'s Pink Turks Cap
Prices start at : 7.99 USD

Either way, these are excellent, hardy, and long-lived perennials with immense flower power. In the northern portion of their range the Turk's Caps are die-back perennials that freeze nearly to the ground in winter and return vigorously in spring.
  • Pruning: Cutback hard if desired in early spring, and remove dead and freeze damaged stems.
  • Container Size: 3.5 inch SQ / 16 fl.oz. / 473 ml
  • Soil & Moisture: Average to moist but moderatley drought tolerant once well established. Adaptable to soil types.
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun, Part shade
  • Native To / Origin: US- Greg Grant, Nacogdoches, TX
  • pH Range: Acidic, Mildly Acidic, Neutral, Mildly Alkaline, Alkaline
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Yellow Boy Mexican Hat, Grey Headed Coneflower, Upright Prairie Coneflower, Red Hats
Prices start at : 7.99 USD

This is a solid yellow flowered seed grown strain that we have selected. A tough, drought resistant, hardy and reliable US native perennial. Mexican Hat is an easy to grow clump forming perennial with finely textured blue-gray foliage.
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun
  • Native To / Origin: N America
  • Grows To: 18-24''H x 24-30''W
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
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Colorwheel Stokesia Daisy, Stoke\'s Aster
Prices start at : 7.99 USD

In the northern most portions of their range, zones 5 and 6, they should be provided with a deep winter mulch. Plants readily multiply into dense clumps. Attracts butterflies and a host of other pollinators.
  • Native To / Origin: US Gardens - Itsaul Plants, Alpharetta, GA, circa 2000
  • Grows To: 12-18''H x 12-18''W
  • Container Size: 3.5 inch / 16 fl.oz. / 473 ml
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun, Part shade
  • Salt Tolerance: Moderate
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Lo\' & Beholdtm Lilac Chip Butterfly Bush, Buddleja
Prices start at : 12.99 USD

The small size, exceptional flower power, and spreading habit lends Lilac Chip to use in the perennial border, as a groundcover, smaller spaces, and containers where it is sure to attract loads of butterflies and other pollinators! The Lo & Beholdtm Buddleja...
  • Native To / Origin: US Gardens- NC, JC Raulston, Dr. Dennis Werner - 2012
  • Deer Resistance: Rarely Bothered
  • Grows To: 12-24''H x 18-24''W
  • Container Size: 4.5 inch / 20 fl.oz. / 591 ml
  • Soil & Moisture: Well-drained soils, with average moisture. Does not tolerate wet feet / poor drainage but are otherwise fairly adaptable.
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Dwarf Mouse-Eared Coreopsis, Dwarf Lobed Tickseed
Prices start at : 7.99 USD

An evergreen perennial that slowly develops into a 6-9" high slowly spreading stoloniferous groundcover. 1-1/2" bright orange-yellow daisies top this diminutive and durable dwarf Coreopsis in late spring and early summer.
  • Native To / Origin: US - Eastern
  • Soil & Moisture: Well-drained, average moist soils.
  • Deer Resistance: Rarely Bothered
  • pH Range: Acidic, Mildly Acidic, Neutral
  • Container Size: 3.5 inch / 16 fl.oz. / 473 ml
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Talayote (Milkweed Vine)
Prices start at : 12.99 USD

By some this plant may be considered weedy, simply remove any ripening seed pods to prevent unwanted seedlings. Talayote produces clusters of small cream and green milkweed flowers that are held above and among the large heart shaped foliage and can be...
  • Grows To: 10-15'H
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun, Part shade
  • Container Size: 4.5 inch / 20 fl.oz. / 591 ml
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 8B,9,10,11,(8A?)
  • Native To / Origin: US - TX and northern Mexico
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Katie Blue Ruellia, Dwarf Ruellia, Dwarf Mexican Petunia, Desert Petunia, Mexican Blue Bells, Florida Bluebells
Prices start at : 7.99 USD

The Dwarf Mexican Petunias are drought resistant once well established but will also grow in poorly drained moist sites. Here in zone 8B they freeze to the ground in most winters and we plant them atop winter growing bulbs like Spanish Bluebells that...
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 8,9,10
  • Deer Resistance: Rarely Bothered
  • Grows To: 6-12"H x 8-12"W
  • Soil & Moisture: Average to moist soils for the best flowering, moderately drought resistant once well-established.
  • pH Range: Acidic, Mildly Acidic, Neutral, Mildly Alkaline
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Candlestick Tree, Empress Candlebush, Christmas Candles
Prices start at : 9.99 USD

The University of Florida recommends pruning last year's plants hard in spring to promote branching and strengthening of the trunks. And the more branches you create the more Candelabra's you'll get to enjoy! With a protective mulch in mild winter climates...
  • Deer Resistance: Moderate to High
  • Native To / Origin: Argentina
  • Container Size: 4.5 inch / 20 fl.oz. / 591 ml
  • Salt Tolerance: Moderate
  • Grows To: 6-10'H x 6-8'W and larger in mild climates
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Blue-Violet Tapien Verbena
Prices start at : 6.99 USD

Use Blue-Violet Tapien Verbena as a groundcover, a spiller in containers, or as a beautiful hanging basket. Perennial Verbenas make wonderful additions to the butterfly garden providing nectar even in late winter for early visitors.
  • Container Size: 3.5 inch SQ / 16 fl.oz. / 473 ml
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun, Part shade
  • Grows To: 4-6''H and spreading
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Lindley\'s Butterfly Bush
Prices start at : 9.99 USD

An unusual variety. Deep violet flowers hang like grapes from this upright to arching shrub. Buddlejas are considered invasive in some areas, please consult your local state offices before purchasing.
  • Container Size: 3.5 inch / 16 fl.oz. / 473 ml
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 5,6,7,8,9,10
  • Salt Tolerance: Slight
  • pH Range: Acidic, Mildly Acidic, Neutral, Mildly Alkaline
  • Native To / Origin: China
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Blue Dragon Nordic Dragonhead
Prices start at : 9.99 USD

Blue Dragon Nordic Dragonhead can be enjoyed as a container plant or in the garden and landscape as a groundcover or as part of your summer tapestry. Dracocephalum is moderately drought resistant once well-established and is considered to be deer resistant.
  • Deer Resistance: Rarely Bothered
  • pH Range: Mildly Acidic, Neutral, Mildly Alkaline
  • Container Size: 3.5 inch / 16 fl.oz. / 473 ml
  • Native To / Origin: US Gardens - a North Creek Nurseries introduction, Landenberg, PA
  • Soil & Moisture: Average moist to periodically dry, well-drained soils.
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