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 SocietyShort-lived perennial, but self-seeds where happy. Described in 1849 by Pierre Edmond Boissier and Rudolph Friedrich Hohenacker.
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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 foliageSize: 12-18” x 24”
Care: sun in well-drained soil
Native: Western US
Wildlife Value: attracts bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and birds. Deer and rabbit resistantPublished in American Midland Naturalist 1945.
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Agastache foeniculum Anise hyssop
Showy blue spikes from July to September, fragrant
Agastache foeniculum Anise hyssop Z 4-8
Showy purple spikes from July to September, fragrantSize: 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 butterfliesThe 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.
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Agastache rupestris Sunset hyssop Z 5-10
Tangerine & lilac spikes June - October, fragrant like anise
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.”