Plants for Butterflies and Other Pollinators

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• Aethionema grandiflorum Persian stonecress Z 5-8

  Bushy, low growing perennial with blue-green leaves and spikes of fragrant pink to lavender flowers, June-July

  

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  Bushy, low growing perennial with blue-green leaves and spikes of fragrant pink to lavender flowers, June-July

  Size: 6-12” x 12-18”
  Care: full sun in well-drained soil. Drought tolerant.
  Native: Iran, Iraq, Caucasus, Turkey
  Wildlife Value: attracts honeybees & other pollinators, Deer & Rabbit resistant.
  Awards: Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society

  Short-lived perennial, but self-seeds where happy. Described in 1849 by Pierre Edmond Boissier and Rudolph Friedrich Hohenacker.

• Agastache aurantiaca Navajo sunset Z 5-9

  Brilliant light orange blooms from spring-fall, silvery-grey aromatic foliage

  

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  Agastache aurantiaca   Navajo sunset   Z 5-9
  Brilliant light orange blooms from spring-fall, silvery-grey aromatic foliage

  Size: 12-18” x 24”
  Care: sun in well-drained soil
  Native: Western US
  Wildlife Value: attracts bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and birds. Deer and rabbit resistant

  Published in American Midland Naturalist 1945.

• Agastache foeniculum Anise hyssop

  Showy blue spikes from July to September, fragrant

  

  $10.95/bareroot

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  Agastache foeniculum  Anise hyssop Z 4-8
  Showy purple spikes from July to September, fragrant

  Size: 3-5' x 12"
  Care: Full sun to part shade in well-drained soil, drought tolerant & deer resistant
  Native: North America, Wisconsin native
  Wildlife Value: attracts butterflies

  The name Agastache is from Greek agan and stachys meaning much like an ear of wheat referring to the shape of the flower spike. Anise hyssop leaves were used by American Indians of the Missouri River region to make tea and as a sweetener in cooking. The Cheyenne used it to relieve chest pain due to coughing or to a dispirited heart. Listed hyssop as an aromatic herb in McMahon’s 1805 book.

• Agastache rupestris Sunset hyssop Z 5-10

  Tangerine & lilac spikes June - October, fragrant like anise

  

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  Tangerine & lilac spikes June – October, fragrant like anise

  Size: 24”x 10”
  Care: full sun in well-drained soil
  Native: SW United States
  Wildlife Value: Attracts bees, butterflies and hummingbirds
  Awards: 1997 Plant Select award recipient.

  First collected by Meriwether Lewis. Introduced to gardens by Edward Greene before 1915.
  The name Agastache is from Greek agan and stachys meaning “much like an ear of wheat” referring to the shape of the flower spike. Rupestris means “rock loving.”