Butterfly Bed and Breakfast

Eastern Yellow Swallowtail on Lilac

Butterflies will visit your outdoor abode more

often if you supply them with the necessities

for all four of their life stages: egg, caterpillar,
chrysalis and adult. Food (plants and flowers),
water, shelter and host plants (to lay eggs
on), are what the leaf-eating caterpillars and
nectar-sipping butterflies demand. Provide
these essentials with the following plants and
they may consider an extended stay….

Painted Lady on Mexican Sunflower

TREES

• Hackberry (Celtis occidentalis) larval host
• Crabapple (Malus spp.) larval host
• Black Cherry (Prunus serotina) larval host
• Oak (Quercus spp.) larval host
• Willow (Salix spp.) larval host and nectar

Red Admiral on Purple Coneflower

SHRUBS

• Butterfly Bush (Buddleia spp.) nectar
• New Jersey Tea (Ceanothus spp.) nectar and larval host
• Button Bush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) nectar
• Summersweet (Clethra alnifolia) nectar
• Honeysuckle (Lonicera spp.) nectar
• Lilac (Syringa spp.) nectar

Monarch on Black-eyed Susan

PERENNIALS

• Anise Hyssop (Agastache foeniculum) nectar
• Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa) larval host and
nectar
• Aster (Aster spp.) nectar and larval host
• Coreopsis (Coreopsis spp.) nectar
• Coneflower (Echinacea spp.) nectar and larval host
• Joe-pye Weed (Eupatorium spp.) nectar and larval host
• Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia fulgida) nectar and host

• Goldenrod (Solidago spp.) nectar and larval host

Coral Hairstreak on Butterfly Weed

ANNUALS

• Hollyhock (Alcea spp.) larval
host
• Marigold (Calendula spp.)
nectar
• Lantana (Lantana spp.) nectar
• Pentas (Pentas spp.) nectar
• Mexican Sunflower (Tithonia) nectar

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