Plants for Butterflies and Other Pollinators
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Synthyris missourica Mountain Kittentails Z 5-9
Spring flowering, true blue short stalks above leathery, evergreen leaves, circular with tooth margins.
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Spring flowering, true blue short stalks above leathery, evergreen leaves, circular with tooth margins.
Size: 5-12” x 12” spreading into clumps by rhizomes.
Care: sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: Mountains of northeast CA, Washington, Idaho & west to MontanaCollected by Meriwether Lewis on June 26, 1806 in today’s Idaho near the headwaters of what they named Hungry Creek. Common name kittentails imaginatively named for the flower stalk and its protruding stamens resembling, if you squint real hard and maybe after taking a swig of whiskey, fuzzy, blue kitten tails.
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Teucrium hircanicum syn. T hyrcanicum Iranian germander, Purple Tails, Wood Sage Z 5-9
Flowering in summer with 3-4” tall veronica-like spikes of dark purple
Flowering in summer with 3-4” tall veronica-like spikes of dark purple
Size: 18” x 28”
Care: sun in well-drained
Native: Iran, Southern Europe, Middle East
Wildlife Value: attract butterflies, deer resistantDescribed and named in 1759
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Thalictrum aquilegifolium Meadowrue, Feathered columbine Z 5-9
Strikingly delicate lavender plumes
Strikingly delicate looking lavender plumes on 3′ tall foliage resembling a columbine.
Size: 36" x 18"
Care: Sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: Europe and North Asia
Wildlife Value: attracts butterfliesIn 1629 Parkinson, apothecary to James I and later, botanist to Charles I, called this “Tufted columbine” a descriptive name, the flowers are tufted and the leaves resemble those of a columbine. Ancient Romans used it to cure ulcers, the plague and “the Faundife.” Romans stuffed children’s’ pillows with the flowers to bring them wealth. Liberty Hyde Bailey described Thalictrum aquilegifolium as: “A good garden plant and frequently planted,”(1913). Cultivated in U.S. since 1700’s.
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Thalictrum delavayi Yunnan meadow rue Z 4-7
Purple flowers with showy sepals and stamens from July to August
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Purple to lavender flowers with showy sepals and stamens from July to August. One of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf’s 100 “MUST HAVE” plants, Gardens Illustrated 94 (2013)
Size: 30” x 20”
Care: sun - part shade in moist humusy soil
Native: Tibet and China
Wildlife Value: Attracts Black swallowtail butterfly
Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit.Thalictrum is from Greek meaning “to flourish” or “look green.” This species discovered by and named for Pére Jean Delavay (1838-1895), French missionary to China. Delavay found about 1500 new species in his three (3) trips to China. He sent his discoveries to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. In 1880 he contracted bubonic plague while in China, which disabled him the remainder of his life.
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Thalictrum minus ‘Adiantifolium’ Fernleaf meadowrue Z 5-9
Yellowish flowers in spring
In spring loose panicles of tiny yellowish flowers top fern-like ornamental foliage, 3′ tall.
Size: 36" x 24"
Care: part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil. Deer resistant.
Native: Europe
Wildlife Value: Attracts Black swallowtail butterfly
Awards: Rated as excellent by the Chicago Botanic Garden.Grown by English herbalist Gerard in the 1590’s.
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Thalictrum polygamum syn. T. pubescens Tall Meadowrue, King of the meadow Z. 4-8
Showy, delicate ivory stamens July to September
Showy, delicate ivory stamens July to September
Size: 3-8’ x 4’
Care: part shade to shade in moist soil
Native: along streams & ponds from Newfoundland west to the Mississippi River & south to Mississippi
Wildlife Value: Attracts Black swallowtail butterfly
Awards: Rated as “excellent” by the Chicago Botanic Garden
Size: Iroquois smashed this Meadowrue to wash their heads and necks for nosebleeds. They also used it to remedy gall ailments. For the Montagnais its leaves flavored salmon.Thalictrum is from Greek meaning “to flourish” or “look green.” Collected before 1793. Pressed specimen in Emily Dickinson’s herbarium.
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Thalictrum rochebruneanum Lavender mist meadowrue Z 5-8
Airy clusters of lavender blooms
Lacy, fine-textured, bluish-green, pinnately compound, columbine-like foliage topped by pendulous, lavender-purple flowers with yellow stamens July-September in airy clusters rising well above the foliage to 4-6′ tall. Extraordinary en mass.
Size: 4-6’ x 30”
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil
Native: Japan
Wildlife Value: Attracts Black swallowtail butterflyCollected for gardens before 1878. Likely named for Alphonse Trémeau de Rochebrune (1834-1912)
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Tradescantia bracteata Spiderwort Z. 4-9
rosy purple flowers July-August
rosy purple flowers July-August
Size: 12-18” x 12”
Care: full sun to part shade in moist well drained soil
Native: WY east to MI, south to OK, WI native
Wildlife Value: attracts bees & butterfliesGenus named after John Tradescant the Younger, an English botanist, who introduced Tradescantia virginiana to garden cultivation in 1637, when he sent it to his father, gardener to King Charles I. This prairie plant collected before 1938.
