Plants for Butterflies and Other Pollinators
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Hemerocallis ‘Dark Skies ’ Z 4-9
Tetraploid Daylily. Purple touched with maroon-colored blossoms. Slightly ruffled petal edges and smooth sepal edges. Green-gold eye. Blooms in July.
Tetraploid Daylily. Purple touched with maroon-colored blossoms. Slightly ruffled petal edges and smooth sepal edges. Green-gold eye. Blooms in July.
Size: 23-28” tall Blossoms 5.5” across
Care: sun in most any soilTetraploid Daylily. Purple touched with maroon-colored blossoms. Slightly ruffled petal edges and smooth sepal edges. Green-gold eye. Blooms in July.
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Hesperaloe parviflora Red Yucca Z 6-9
Cerise scarlet trumpets up and down the flower spike in summer
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Cerise scarlet trumpets up and down the flower spike in summer
Size: 3’ x 5’
Care: sun moist well-drained to dry soil
Native: Europe, west & central Asia
Wildlife Value: Attracts butterflies & hummingbirds. Deer and rabbit tolerant,Named by Dr. George Engelmann, a German physician and plant fanatic who emigrated to America in the early 1800’s, settling in St. Louis.
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Heuchera versicolor syn. H. rubescens var. versicolor Pink alumroot Z 4-10
Tiny pink bells on narrow inflorescence blooming mid to late summer
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Tiny pink bells on narrow inflorescence blooming mid to late summer
Size: 8-12” x 12"
Care: prefers part shade in moist well-drained to well drained soil, can grow in sun with moist soil. Deer resistant.
Native: southwestern US
Wildlife Value: attracts bees, butterflies and hummingbirdsFirst collected in 1904 on damp, shady bluffs of the Black Range in New Mexico, accd. to Edward Lee Greene.
The roots are astringent and can also be used as an alum substitute, used in fixing dyes. Was also used medicinally for fever, diarrhea, venereal disease, liver ailments, eyewash, colic and animal care. Heuchera is named for Johann Heinrich von Heucher (1677-1747), while rubescens means becoming red or reddish, and versicolor means variously colored.
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Hibiscus moscheutos Rose mallow Z 5-9
August and September, bodacious, white, pink or crimson platters, looking like the tropics.
August and September, bodacious, white, pink or crimson platters, looking like the tropics.
Size: 5-8' x 3'
Care: Sun, moist to moist well-drained soil, no staking needed.
Native: Southern U.S.
Wildlife Value: Attracts butterflies esp. Cloudless Sulphur butterflies relish Rose mallow’s nectar.One Native American tribe used this plant to cure inflamed bladders. 1st collected by Rev. John Banister (1649-1692) who moved to colonial Virginia in 1678. A gunman mistakenly shot and killed him while he collected plants. Cultivated by Lady Skipworth in her colonial Virginia garden. Bloomed for Jefferson in July, 1767. Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811.
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Holodiscus discolor Creambush, Ocean spray Z 5-10
Multistemmed shrub with dense, elegant pyramidal clusters of arching cream-colored flowers in early to mid summer. Leaves tint red in fall.
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Multi-stemmed shrub with dense, elegant pyramidal clusters of arching cream-colored flowers in early to mid-summer. Leaves tint red in fall.
Size: 4-8’ x 8’
Care: sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: Montana to Colorado west to the Pacific.
Wildlife Value: nectar for hummingbirds, food for butterfly caterpillars, bird habitat.Hard and durable wood was used to make digging sticks, spears, harpoon shafts, bows, and arrows by nearly all coastal Native groups. A few used the wood to make sticks to barbeque salmon, fish hooks, needles for weaving and knitting, Pegs were made to use like nails. Others made wood intoarmor plating and canoe paddles.
A few Natives made an infusion of boiled fruit to cure diarrhea, measles, chickenpox and as a blood tonic. Collected by Meriwether Lewis in today’s Idaho on the Clearwater River, May 29, 1806 en route back east on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. -
Humulus lupulus Hops Z 3-8
In August green turning to straw-colored papery hops dangle from this vigorous vine.
In August green turning to straw-colored papery hops dangle from this vigorous vine.
Size: 20' x 3'
Care: Sun to part shade in moist, humusy soil but tolerates dry shade.
Native: Europe
Wildlife Value: attracts Eastern comma & Red admiral butterfliesLupulus named for the Latin Lupis, meaning wolf “because the ancients had a notion that wolves hid themselves under this plant.” Gardeners Dictionary, 1768. Used for brewing since ancient times. Transported from continental Europe to England in 1524. Added to ale for flavor and as a preservative. In the late 1500’s Gerard claimed that hops seasoned ale and ”make it a physical drinke to keep the body in health, rather than an ordinary drinke for the quenching of our thirst… The buds or first sprouts which come forth in the Spring are used to be eaten in sallads… The floures are vsed to season Beere or Ale with, and too many do cause bitternesse thereof… The floures make bread light, and the lumpe to be sooner and easilier leauened, if the meale be tempered with liquor wherein they haue been boyled.” Russians crowned the heads of brides with its foliage to bring “joy, abundance and intoxication.” Others put dried hops into pillows to relieve insomnia. Imported to America by the mid 1600’s where it was used to provide shade and to make beer. Cherokee adopted hops to relieve pain caused by rheumatism. Grown by Jefferson.
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Hunnemannia fumariifolia Goldencup, Mexican Tulip Poppy Z 9-11, Annual in colder areas
All summer and fall sunny, crepe-papery petals with jagged edges center around orange anthers all carried above thin-leaved blue-grey foliage.
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All summer and fall sunny, crepe-papery petals with jagged edges center around orange anthers all carried above thin-leaved blue-grey foliage.
Size: 6-12" x 6-12"
Care: sun in moist, well-drained to well-drained soil
Native: highlands of Mexico, TX, NM & AZDescribed and named by English botanist Robert Sweet (1783-1835) in The British Flower Garden vol. 3 (1828). Named for John Hunnemannia
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Hylotelephium herbstsfreude syn Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’ Z 4-9
Classic, large flat flower heads turn from green to rose
Classic, large flat flower heads turn from green to rose blooming in September and October. A staple for autumn in the garden.
Size: 30” x 12”
Care: full sun in well-drained soil
Wildlife Value: Attracts many bees and butterflies. Black walnut tolerant, deer resistant.
Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit.Autumn Joy introduced to gardens before 1920 by the George Arends Nursery in Ronsdorf, Germany.
