Plants for Butterflies and Other Pollinators
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Syneilesis aconitifolia syn Senecio aconitifolius Shredded Umbrella Plant Z 3-8
Grown for its excellent foliage in dry shade. I guess “Shredded umbrella” best describes this plant with thin, dissected leaves atop a leafless stem. drooping in a rounded shape, like an umbrella, but it wouldn’t shelter from rain. Pale pink to white flowers in early to mid-summer.
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Grown for its excellent foliage in dry shade. “Shredded umbrella” best describes this plant with thin, dissected leaves atop a leafless stem. Drooping in a rounded shape, like an umbrella, but it wouldn’t shelter from rain. Pale pink to white flowers in early to mid-summer.
Size: 3’ x 2’, spreads slowly by rhizomes
Care: part to full shade in moist, well-drained to well-drained soil. Drought tolerant once established.
Native: China, Korea & Japan and eastern Russia
Wildlife Value: Attracts bees, butterflies and birds. Deer and rabbit resistant.Described in Flora of China in 1833. Chinese used the whole plant for medicine, to relax and activate the tendons, alleviate pain around the waist and legs, and to treat most any injuries.
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Teucrium hircanicum syn. T hyrcanicum Iranian germander, Purple Tails, Wood Sage Z 5-8
Loads of deep purple erect spikes from mid-summer through fall making this subshrub one of the best
Loads of deep purple erect spikes from mid-summer through fall making this subshrub one of the best
Size: 18-24” x 24”
Care: sun in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
Native: Caucausus and Iran
Wildlife Value: attract butterflies, deer resistantDescribed and named by 1753
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Thalictrum aquilegifolium Meadowrue, Feathered columbine Z 5-9
Delicate lavender to pink panicles of showy stamens in early summer
Delicate lavender to pink panicles of showy stamens in early summer
Size: 36" x 18"
Care: Sun to part shade in moist humusy soil
Native: Europe and North Asia
Wildlife Value: attracts Black swallowtail butterflyThalictrum is from Greek meaning “to flourish” or “look green.” In 1629 Parkinson, apothecary to James I and later, botanist to Charles I, called this “Tufted columbine” a descriptive name, the flowers are tufted, and the leaves resemble those of a columbine. Ancient Romans used it to cure ulcers, the plague and “the Faundife.” Romans stuffed children’s’ pillows with the flowers to bring them wealth. Liberty Hyde Bailey described Thalictrum aquilegifolium as: “A good garden plant and frequently planted,”(1933). Cultivated in U.S. since 1700’s.
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Thalictrum coriaceum Maid of the Mist Z 5-7
Broad panicle of white flowers with maroon-colored filaments and tips of stigma flowering May to June
Broad panicle of white flowers with maroon-colored filaments and tips of stigma flowering May to June
Size: 3-5’ x 2’
Care: sun to shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: Uncommon, central and southern Appalachian endemic, Pennsylvania to northern Georgia west to West Virginia and Tennessee, primarily in the mountainsFirst described in 1891 in “Torrey Bot. Club” 18:363, 1891. Collected on Rock Table and Stone Mountains in North Carolina in 1891 by J.K. Small (1869-1938) and A.A. Heller and by “Professor Porter in the same region many years before.”
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Thalictrum minus ‘Adiantifolium’ Fernleaf meadowrue Z 4-8
Loose panicles of tiny yellowish flowers top fern-like foliage in mid-summer.
Loose panicles of tiny yellowish flowers top fern-like foliage in mid-summer.
Size: 36" x 24"
Care: part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil.
Native: Europe, North Africa & Siberia
Wildlife Value: Attracts Black swallowtail butterfly, Deer resistant.
Awards: Rated as excellent by the Chicago Botanic Garden.Thalictrum is from Greek meaning “to flourish” or “look green.” The species grown by English herbalist Gerard (1545-1612) in the 1590’s.
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Thalictrum rochebruneanum Lavender mist meadowrue Z 4-7
Lacy, fine-textured, bluish-green, pinnately compound, columbine-like foliage topped by pendulous, lavender-purple flowers (sepals) with yellow stamens July-September in airy clusters rising well above the foliage to 4-6' tall. Extraordinary en mass. One of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf's 100 "MUST HAVE" plants, Gardens Illustrated.
Lacy, fine-textured, bluish-green, pinnately compound, columbine-like foliage topped by pendulous, lavender-purple flowers (sepals) with yellow stamens July-September in airy clusters rising well above the foliage to 4-6′ tall. Extraordinary en mass. One of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf’s 100 “MUST HAVE” plants, Gardens Illustrated.
Size: 6’ x 30”
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil
Native: Japan
Wildlife Value: Attracts Black swallowtail butterfly
Awards: Missouri Botanic Garden Plant of MeritThalictrum is from Greek meaning “to flourish” or “look green.” This species collected before 1878. Likely named for French botanist Alphonse Trémeau de Rochebrune (1834-1912).
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Tradescantia bracteata Spiderwort Z 4-9
Three-petaled rosy purple petals frame bright yellow stamens, open mornings and close by noon from June-August. Cut back for rebloom.
Three-petaled rosy purple petals frame bright yellow stamens, open mornings and close by noon from June-August. Cut back for rebloom.
Size: 12-18” x 12”
Care: full sun to part shade in moist well drained soil
Native: Minnesota south to Texas - Wisconsin native
Wildlife Value: attracts bees & butterfliesEnglish herbalist John Parkinson (1567-1650) named the Genus after John Tradescant the Younger who sent Tradescantia virginiana it to his father, gardener to Kings James III and Charles I. This prairie plant collected before 1938.
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Tradescantia virginiana Spiderwort Z 4-9
Purple umbels of three petals with prominent yellow stamens June – October, opening in the morning and closing at noon.
Purple umbels of three petals with prominent yellow stamens June – October, opening in the morning and closing at noon.
Size: 18-24" x 24"
Care: Full sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: From New York to South Dakota, Virginia and Arkansas and all states in between. Wisconsin native.
Wildlife Value: Bumblebees and honeybees eat the nectar and collect the pollen.Named after John Tradescant, an English botanist and gardener to Kings James III and Charles I. Parkinson (1567-1650) explains the origin of this plant: “This Spider-wort is of late knowledge, and for it the Christian world is indebted unto that painfull industrious searcher, and lover of all natures varieties, John Tradescant who first received it of a friend, that brought it out of Virginia,” (1639). It was probably sent to mainland Europe in 1500’s. Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811. Tradescantia was cherished by the Dakota Indians for its beauty. Cherokee ate the young greens and prescribed it to cure stomachaches after overeating, female illnesses, cancer, and insect bites. Menominee revived those “defiled by touch of bereaved.” Natives applied a poltice of the leaves topically for insect bites and stings. By 1659 ones with white, light blue and reddish flowers grown in England. According to Monticello.org the root exuded a gummy liquid which, when inserted into a cut on top of a person’s head remedied the person’s “craziness.”
