Plants for Butterflies and Other Pollinators
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Philadelphus lewisii Lewis’ Mock Orange Z 4-9
A triple delight. From late spring to early summer clusters of 2” wide, four-petaled, snow-white flowers with a center boss of sunny stamens smother this vase-shaped shrub. The flowers perfume the air with a delicious, orange scent. Then in fall the foliage turns citrus-yellow. Idaho adopted this as the state flower.
A triple delight. From late spring to early summer clusters of 2” wide, four-petaled, snow-white flowers with a center boss of sunny stamens smother this vase-shaped shrub. The flowers perfume the air with a delicious, orange scent. Then in fall the foliage turns citrus-yellow. Idaho adopted this as the state flower.
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Size: 5-10’ x 5-7’
Care: sun to part-shade in moist to well-drained soil
Native: from British Columbia to California, east to Montana.
Wildlife Value: Nectar and pollen attract bumble bees, moths, butterflies and hoverflies. It hosts caterpillars and chrysalises. Many birds eat the seeds.Natives used its strong and hard wood to make arrows, bows, combs, pipes for smoking, snowshoes, clubs, armor to protect chests, fishing spears, harpoon shafts, sticks for digging, knitting needles and baskets. Meriwether Lewis collected this plant in two places, in early May 1806 in Nez Perce County Idaho and two months later in Missoula County, Montana.
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Phlomis tuberosa syn. Phlomoides tuberosa Jerusalem sage Z 5-8
Whorls of bubblegum pink, beak-shaped flowers encircle stem in July. One of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf’s 100 “MUST HAVE” plants, Gardens Illustrated 94 (2013)
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Whorls of bubblegum pink, beak-shaped flowers encircle the stem in July. One of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf’s 100 “MUST HAVE” plants, Gardens Illustrated 94 (2013)
Size: 4' x 12"
Care: Sun well-drained soil
Native: central and S.E. Europe to central Asia.
Wildlife Value: attracts butterflies, deer resistant.
Awards: Chicago Botanic Garden rates this 4-stars for health, robust growth, hardiness and flower production.In garden of English plant enthusiast Peter Collinson, 1736. The name Phlomis is Greek meaning “to burn” “because in old time the peasants used to burn these plants to enlighten their chambers.” Gardeners Dictionary, 1768. This species 1st collected for description and naming in Siberia in 1759.
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Phlox carolina ‘Miss Lingard’ Carolina phlox, Wedding phlox Z 5-8
True to its common name this 3’ tall selection bears bridal white blossoms with pink eyes late June into August with deadheading.
True to its common name this 3’ tall selection bears bridal white blossoms with pink eyes late June into August with deadheading.
Size: 3-4' x 18"
Care: sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil. Powdery mildew resistant
Native: Cultivar of native in eastern and central U.S.
Wildlife Value: attracts butterflies and hummingbirdsPhlox is Greek meaning “flame.” The species carolina in gardens before 1889 and cultivar ‘Miss Lingard’ before 1905.
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Phlox paniculata Garden phlox Z 4-8
Magenta, fragrant flowers from July to September – the classic farm garden flower. Deadhead for rebloom.
Magenta, fragrant flowers from July to September – the classic farm garden flower. Deadhead for rebloom.
Size: 4' x 2' spreader and self-seeder
Care: full sun to part shade in moist or moist well-drained soil.
Native: Pennsylvania west to Arkansas and Missouri. South to Alabama.
Wildlife Value: Silvery checkerspot, European cabbage, and Blue, Black & Spicebush swallowtails butterflies relish Phlox’s nectar.Phlox is Greek meaning flame. A farmyard plant in North America. One of the 1st plants collected in No. America – grown in Tradescant the Elder’s South Lambeth (now a borough of South London) nursery in 1634. Offered for sale in Bartram Garden’s 1783 Broadside, America’s 1st plant catalog.
‘Bright eyes’ cultivar since 1934. ‘David’ noticed in a garden of Phlox at Pennsylvania’s Brandywine Conservancy by F.M. Mooberry in August 1987. -
Pimpinella major ‘Rosea’ Greater burnet, Cow parsley 5-8
Like Queen Ann’s lace but fear its invasion? Here’s a look-alike, pink perennial that won’t take over. It’s many branches, with lacy foliage, each with a pink umbel on an upright stem bloom in early to mid-summer depending on location.
Like Queen Ann’s lace but fear its invasion? Here’s a look-alike, pink perennial that won’t take over. Its many branches, with lacy foliage, each with a pink umbel on an upright stem bloom in early to mid-summer depending on location.
Size: 3’-4’ x 2’
Care: sun to part-shade in moist well-drained soil
Native: Europe and Caucasus
Wildlife Value: Rich in both pollen and nectar it attracts bees and butterflies.First described in literature in 1812 by German botanist David Heinrich (1760-1846) in Nouvelle Flore des Environs de Paris. He named it Pimpinella rubra. Since then botanists decided it’s a cultivar of the white-flowered Pimpinellla major and renamed it.
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Platycodon grandiflorus Balloon flower Z 3-9
Balloon shaped buds opening to blue bells from mid-summer to early fall.
Balloon shaped buds opening to blue bells from mid-summer to early fall.
Size: 24" x 12"
Care: Full sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil. Heat and drought tolerant. Deadhead for rebloom.
Native: Eastern Asia
Wildlife Value: attracts butterflies, bees & hummingbirds
Awards: Received England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.Platycodon is Greek from platys meaning “broad” and kodon meaning “bell”, referring to the shape of the flower. Cultivated in China for hundreds of years where it is called Jie-geng. The Chinese used the root boiled to cure a chill in the stomach. Mentioned in Man’yoshu, a Japanese anthology of poems written in the 8th century. German botanist Johann Gmelin first discovered P. grandiflorus in Siberia in 1754. Gmelin’s Siberian mission, sponsored by Catherine the Great, took 10 years and nearly killed him. Gmelin introduced it to European garden cultivation by 1782. Cultivated in the U.S. since the 1800’s. Received England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.
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Polemonium brandegeei Brandegee’ Jacobs-ladder, Yellow sky pilot Z 4-8
Hanging, tubular yellow, sometimes white blooms over frilly foliage, May-July
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Hanging, tubular yellow, sometimes white blooms over frilly foliage, May-July
Size: 8” x 10”
Care: sun to part shade in very well-drained soil
Native: CO, NM, SD, UT, WY
Wildlife Value: attracts bees, butterflies & mothsCollected by Townshend Stith Brandegee in the ‘Valley of the Rio Grande, on the Los Pinos Trail’ c. 1870. Brandegee then sent it to Harvard botanist Asa Gray who identified and named it to honor its collector.
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Polygonum virginianum syn. Persicaria virginiana Jumpseed Z 4-8
Arresting tiny white flowers atop nearly leafless stems blooming late summer into fall; dark green foliage marked with a maroon chevron on each leaf
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Arresting tiny white flowers atop nearly leafless stems blooming late summer into fall;
dark green foliage marked with a maroon chevron on each leafSize: 2-3’ x 3-4’
Care: shade to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: All eastern areas from central Canada south to Texas, Wisconsin native
Wildlife Value: attracts birds, bees & butterflies, Deer resistant
Size: Cherokee made a hot infusion of leaves with the bark of a Honey Locust to treat whooping cough.Linnaeus 1753.
