Plants for Butterflies and Other Pollinators

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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 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

  

  $9.75/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

  

  $9.75/pot

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  Agastache rupestris     Sunset hyssop   Z 5-10
  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.”

• Alcea rosea Hollyhock BIENNIAL

  Early to late summer spikes of single platters - mixed colors. The classic cottage garden flower.

  

  $9.45/bareroot

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  Alcea rosea   Hollyhock   BIENNIAL reseeds  Z 4-9
  Early to late summer spikes of single platters – mixed colors. The classic cottage garden flower.

  Size: 5-8' x 24"
  Care: Sun in moist well-drained to well-drained soil. Drought tolerant
  Native: West Asia
  Wildlife Value: Butterfly plant, host for Painted Lady butterflies

  Cultivated in China for thousands of years where it symbolized the passing of time. They cooked the leaves for a vegetable and also ate the buds. Transported from Middle East to Europe by the Crusaders and introduced to England by the 1400’s. Culpepper, a 17^th century English herbalist, claimed the plant could be used to cure ailments of the “belly, Stone, Reins, Kidneys, Bladder, Coughs, Shortness of Breath, Wheesing, … the King’s Evil,, Kernels, Chin-cough, Wounds, Bruises, Falls. . . (and) Sun-burning.” Both single and double forms grew in England by the time of Parkinson (1629). Parkinson said they came “in many and sundry colours.” John Winthrop Jr. introduced the 1^st hollyhock to the New World in the 1630’s.