Monarch Nectar Plants
These plants are big draws for adult Monarch butterflies, which need nectar for the summer breeding season when plants like Blazing Star, Purple Coneflower, Joe Pyes, and the milkweeds are in bloom, but also need great nectar sources to power their fall migration to Mexico like the Asters, Goldenrods, and Bonesets.
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Rose Milkweed Seeds / Asclepias incarnata
Rose Milkweed, also called Swamp Milkweed, isn't just our favorite milkweed in the garden, it's adaptable to many soil conditions, gorgeous, and it...
View full detailsSweet Joe Pye Seeds / Eutrochium purpureum
This woodland Joe Pye is an amazingly versatile plant. It can take full sun or shade, wet or dry soil. It can grow up to 7 feet tall, so if you hav...
View full detailsPurple 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 detailsCommon Milkweed Seeds / Asclepias syriaca
Common Milkweed has big, broad leaves and pretty pink globe-shaped flower clusters. In June, it draws a diverse group of pollinators. It's also rig...
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 detailsSunflower Seeds / Helianthus annuus
Loved by humans and bees and butterflies. This is a mixed seed pack of different breeds, which will vary from year to year depending on the harvest...
View full detailsDense Blazing Star Seeds / Liatris spicata
Blazing Star plants are a graceful presence in the garden, slender and vertical, they take up little horizontal space, but command the eye when in ...
View full detailsSpotted Joe Pye Seeds / Eutrochium maculatum
Like the other Joe Pye species, Spotted Joe Pye prefers moist soil and is a butterfly magnet. It has an elegant and beautiful whorled leaf structur...
View full detailsLate Boneset Seeds / Eupatorium serotinum
A beautiful plant with reddish-purple stems and sprays of small white flowers. An absolute powerhouse pollinator food source - it attracts the most...
View full detailsHollow Joe Pye Seeds / Eutrochium fistulosum
Hollow Joe Pye is the giant among Joe Pye species, reaching up to 10 or more feet in moist soil conditions that it favors, with a dome of small pin...
View full detailsWhite Swamp Milkweed Seeds / Asclepias incarnata
A white blooming variant of Rose Milkweed, it similarly serves as a host plant for Monarchs and attracts many pollinators to its sweet scented flow...
View full detailsShowy Goldenrod Seeds / Solidago speciosa
Aptly named, Showy Goldenrod also brings the pollinators in droves for the fall. Along with the asters, goldenrods are keystone plant species and s...
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