Host Plants for Butterfly and Moth Caterpillars
These plants provide the necessary food for butterfly and moth caterpillars to move through their lifecycle and become the flying insects we know and love.
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Purple Coneflower Seeds / Echinacea purpurea
One of the best native plants for the garden. It attracts a diverse group of bees and butterflies, is sturdy and upright, and is a clumping perenni...
View full detailsWild Bergamot Seeds / Monarda fistulosa
Wild Bergamot is one of the best pollinator plants a garden can have and one of our favorites, easily one of the high points of the year in the gar...
View full detailsSmooth Aster Seeds / Symphyotrichum laeve
These plants offer beautiful lavender-hued blooms in the fall and are fantastic in the garden. They do have a tendency to flop over, so it would ma...
View full detailsNew England Aster Seeds / Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
New England Aster is a classic garden plant for many reasons. They're gorgeous fall blooming plants that come in a dazzling variety of pinks and pu...
View full detailsPearly Everlasting Seeds / Anaphalis margaritacea
If you're looking for a plant that works well in tough/poor soil or a gravel garden, look no further. Pearly Everlasting is a perfect addition to a...
View full detailsScarlet Bee Balm Seeds / Monarda didyma
Scarlet Bee Balm is an intensely bright red fireworks display of tubular flowers that attract hummingbirds, native bees, and butterflies. It thrive...
View full detailsRattlesnake Master Seeds / Eryngium yuccifolium
Along with its interesting name, this plant brings in an amazingly diverse set of native insects. It also has beautiful structure and eye-catching ...
View full detailsBlue-Stemmed Goldenrod Seeds / Solidago caesia
A lovely woodland denizen that grows to three or four feet and elegantly drapes itself on other plants. Very well-behaved in the garden and a wonde...
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