Butterfly Attracting

Seduction Yarrow offers generous production of long-lasting flowers in vivid hues, dense, sturdy, columnar habit, and stellar garden performance even in hot, humid conditions. 'Strawberry Seduction' offers true red florets; 'Saucy' is rosy-pink and '...

Gold Plate Yarrow is a single clump-forming plant can produce a show all by itself. Fragrant, grayish green leaves on strong flower stems bear large golden, flat-topped flower clusters that attract butterflies. Excellent with dark ...

Red Beauty Yarrow is renowned for its large clusters of bright red flowers. Each individual flower in the cluster also has a distinctive yellow eye. As is the case with all Yarrows, the flowers fade as they age; Red Beauty Yarrow fades from red to so...

Paprika Yarrow is renowned for its large clusters of bright red flowers. Each individual flower in the cluster also has a distinctive yellow eye. As is the case with all Yarrows, the flowers fade as they age; Paprika Yarrow fades from red to pink. Pl...

Red Buckeye is a short tree or shrub, usually single-stemmed, open habit. Fast-growing on rich, moist soils. In April, its pikes of showy red flowers are pollinated by ruby-throated hummingbirds. The palmate leaves offer great texture but the foliage...

Creates mass of soft powder-blue flower spikes from July onwards, making it a magnet for butterflies and admiring visitors alike. Robust addition for sunny, dry borders....

Purple Haze Agastache offers elegant, upright spikes over aromatic foliage and continue to look good until frost. The prolific lavender-blue flowers emerge from contrasting deep rose-pink calyces....

Bright yellow flowers tinted with orange mid-summer to frost. Silvery-leaved, southwestern perennial native is intensely aromatic. Needs well-drained site....

Shrub Indigo is a woody shrub with deep lavender fragrant flower spikes. Has naturalized throughout the Midwest. Can be aggressive....

Spring clusters of pale blue, five-petaled flowers are the primary reason most gardeners choose Narrowleaf Blue Star, a native of the southwestern U.S. But the airy golden fall foliage is just as important for an interesting landscape....

Shining Blue Star offers rounded spikes of starry, sky blue flowers emerge in spring and last for several weeks. Deep green willow-like leaves turn bright gold in the fall. The plant takes on a substantial rounded form in the garden. Swallowtail butt...

Blue Ice Blue Star is a compact, erect, clump-forming plant which features terminal, pyramidal clusters of blue, 3/4", star-like flowers in late spring atop erect, leafy stems. This long-blooming, compact Amsonia selection blooms longer and stronger ...

Columbine is an openly branching plant bears abundant red and yellow nodding flowers in spring. The distinctive flowers offer nectar to butterflies and hummingbirds. Tolerates part sun....

Low tufted foliage and globe-shaped flowers of Sea Thrift make it perfect for container plantings, the rock garden, border, or as a ground cover....

Blood flower is a South American evergreen perennial in the milkweed family with a much longer flowering period than the Midwest native perennial milkweeds. Glossy, strap-like leaves are medium green, sometimes with white midribs. Showy flowers with ...

Marsh, or Swamp, Milkweed offers sweetly scented clusters of rose-pink flowers bloom in summer. All kinds of pollinators find the nectar irresistible and monarch larvae feed on the foliage. Grows naturally in swamps, along streams and ponds and in we...

Butterfly Milkweed has flat-topped umbrels of nectar-rich red-orange flowers atop fleshy stems....

Smooth Aster is an attractive and long-lived native with attractive, smooth blue-green foliage. Abundant flowers appear late in the fall, when few other plants dare risk the danger of frost. Tolerates a broad variety of soil types and moisture levels...

New England Aster is a dependable perennial which grows up to six feet tall and produces hundreds of large, bright purple flowers with yellow centers in September and October. The flowers are a favorite nectar source for migrating monarch butterflies...

Hordes of purple, starry flowers with yellow centers completely cover Purple Dome Aster's lance-shaped green foliage in fall. Purple Dome Aster plants form naturally neat, compact mounds with no cutting back needed. This classic aster is famous for i...

Aromatic Aster has abundant blooms in late fall. Shear back through July for dense habit....

Purple, fine textured single ray flowers in September and October, with aromatic foliage. A butterfly magnet and terrific color and texture addition to the fall border. ...

Sunshine Blue Caryopteris has rich golden foliage, amethyst-blue blooms in tall spikes, and bushy, well-branched habit make Sunshine Blue® the best way to brighten the sunny garden in late summer and fall. This shrub leafs out bright gold in sprin...

Hundreds of ball-shaped, creamy white flowers dangle from Buttonbush in August. Butterflies and insects find the nectar irresistable....

Turtlehead has erect, leafy stems with clusters of white snapdragon-like blossoms. Naturally occurs along streambanks, swampy areas and moist woods....

Dense spikes of rose-red flowers bloom on Rose Turtlehead in late summer and early fall. Butterflies and other pollinators are attracted to the nectar. The deep green, glossy foliage is handsome all season long. Rose Turtlehead grows best in full sun...

Lanceleaf Coreopsis has showy, deep-yellow flowers on tough, drought-tolerant plants. Great for naturalizing. Establishes easily from seed. Good in wildflower seed mixes...

Zagreb Threadleaf Coreopsis is a sun-loving plant with fernlike foliage and loads of bright yellow blooms that brighten any border. Wonderful compact form, ideal for bed edges....

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Purple Prairie Clover has tiny, purple flowers on compact, cone-shaped heads. Nitrogen-fixing plant that is an important component of Midwestern prairie restorations....

Maximum color impact from Firewitch Dianthus, a German cultivar. Firewitch Dianthus offers one of the bluest-foliaged, most heat-tolerant and most tolerant of varying soil conditions of the many types of Dianthus. Prolific blooms extend throughout th...

Fragrant Angel Coneflower has large, fragrant, white flowers. The double rows of petals are held horizontally, making the show even better. Tall, vigorous plants have strong branches and flower profusely all summer long. 'Fragrant Angel' makes a grea...

Purple Coneflower is a perennial favorite with robust, drought tolerant perennial, native to the midwestern and southeastern United States. Prefers full sun to partial shade in fertile, well-drained soils. Easy to naturalize....

Echinacea 'After Midnight' is short, upright, and bushy--ideal for containers or the front of a border, where its coloring will create impact. Dramatic, almost black stems hold flower heads of rich fuschia-purple petals surrounding a dark red cone....

Summer Sky Coneflower is a pastel two-tone coneflower--the first of its kind! Pale coral-orange petal tips fade to reddish pink at their bases, and are centered around an orange cone. Large flowered, prolific and very fragrant from late June until fr...

This robust variety has petals of a cooling light green surrounding dark green cones -- the ideal complement to hotter colors of high summer. Flowering begins in July and continues into autumn. Plants thrive in average soils or hot, dry conditions an...

Kim's Knee High Coneflower has big, bright flowers that first appear in late June and keep coming into September. Plants thrive in average soils or hot, dry conditions; shrug off cold; and are equally at home in full sun or partial shade....

Little Joe Pye Weed is a dwarf species of Joe Pye, native in moist soils from Maine south to South Carolina. In appearance, E. dubium is similar to E. purpureum, but more tolerant of light shade....

Oranges and Lemons Gaillardia offers a new color form of tough Gaillardia that is spectacularly prolific. Oranges and Lemons Gaillardia is ideal for poor soil in plenty of sun. It can also take summer humidity and winter cold....

Gaillardia is a North American genus of showy native annuals and perennials grown for their profuse and long-running bloom and their utter indifference to heat and drought. One of many new cultivar varieties especially suited to native beds is 'Fanfa...

Rozanne Hardy Geranium is the longest blooming and most prolific blue-flowered geranium. The flowers continue blooming through the heat of midsummer, and the deeply cut leaves remain lovely, on plants that are spreading but not sprawling....

Biokovo Karmina Bloody Cranesbill is an easy-to-grow hardy geranium cultivar noted for its compact growth habit and reddish-purple flowers. Forms spreading mound of foliage. It features five-petaled, rosy-pink flowers and deeply-lobed, dark green lea...

Max Frei Bloody Cranesbill is an easy-to-grow hardy geranium cultivar noted for its compact growth habit and reddish-purple flowers. Forms spreading mound of foliage. It features five-petaled, rosy-purple flowers and deeply-lobed, dark green leaves. ...

Mardi Gras Sneezeweed provides numerous multicolored blooms for six to eight weeks in summer, from late June to early August. Yellow petals, lavishly splashed with orange red, form wildly patterned stiff skirts around deep brown, mounded center cones...

Table Mountain Sunflower is a remarkable short form of our native Willow-Leaved Sunflower. The plants are self supporting and feature a plateau of brilliant, dark-eyed yellow daisies from summer right through fall....

Rosy Returns Daylily is a hybrid of Stella de Oro, so you expect bloom strength, but it's got something more -- the ability to rebloom from early June right up to frost! Large, 4" flowers bloom from early summer until hard frost. Excellent in massed ...

Stella d'Oro Daylily is a great choice for a variety of well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. Dwarf, everblooming variety with multitudes of dainty, canary-yellow flowers. By far one of the best daylilies available. The Stella D'Oro daylily h...

The first Hydrangea macrophylla that blooms on both old and new wood. Flowers virtually all season long....

Mystical Red Star is a St. John's Wort cultivar with beautifully colored fruits on perfectly-shaped branches. A large red-berried form, Mystical™ Red Star will fill your fall garden with interest and your floral arrangements with lovely colore...

Knautia is one of the finest perennials for the border. It has a very long season of flowering lasting well into the autumn and early winter. The dense, double, pincushion scabiosa-like flowers are a brilliantly strong cherry red, a rare color in bor...

In July and August, the unbranched stalks of Prairie Blazing Star bear dense spikes of fuschia flowers on strong stems creating dramatic landscape statement. Prairie Blazing Star's nectar-rich flowers attract butterflies and hummingbirds....

Kobold Blazing Star is a compact selection of the prairie native is a welcome addition to the mid-summer landscape. 'Kobold' almost qualifies as a dwarf, and definitely belongs near the front of the border....

This selection of Ligularia, or Elephant Ears, is a bold specimen perennial that needs a moist location. It forms a clump of large, rounded maroon-black leaves. Taller stems appear in midsummer, bearing clusters of bright golden orange daisy flowers....

Spicebush is a broad, rounded multi-stemmed native shrub covered with fragrant, yellow-green flowers in March and April. In fall, the aromatic light green leaves of Spicebush turn a deep yellow-gold. Birds feed on the small, brilliant red fruits prod...

Dozens of brilliant red flowers on Cardinal Flower's strong, upright stems in late summer. Hummingbirds enjoy Cardinal Flower's nectar....

Vigorous climbing species. Flowers bud white and bloom yellow....

Grand Parade Bee Balm is easily the most mildew-resistant Bee Balm of all, Grand Parade is also among the best for garden beauty, flowering over a longer season and more abundantly than other varieties. Quite compact and handsome even out of bloom wi...

Walker's Low Catmint has finely-cut gray-green aromatic foliage with large lavender-blue heavy blossoms from late spring through midsummer. Prune back for a second heavy bloom in fall and cut it back several times during its first bloom season for a ...

Missouri Primrose is a showy, trailing plant with large, yellow, fragrant flowers up to 4" across. Plants bloom for a long period from spring through summer and make an excellent front of border or rock garden plant. Foliage stays green much of the y...

Easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soil in full sun. Prefers rich, humusy soils. Tolerant of hot and humid summers. This Patrinia cultivar is clump-forming and almost identical to the species, except it is lower growing. ...

Purple Beardtongue presents show-stopping spikes of loosely spaced flowers. The large violet to deep purple tubular flowers grace erect stems. Purple Beardtongue flowers bloom in late spring and are larger than other penstemon flowers. Grows easily i...

Filigran Russian Sage is the sturdiest and most upright of the Perovskia cultivars. Feathery, finely-cut foliage glistens a rich silvery-green in the landscape. Filigran Russian Sage blooms are airy and steel-blue, surrounding thin stems. Habit is ro...

David Garden Phlox is the most mildew-resistant phlox to date. The wonderfully fragrant giant flower heads adorn the top of the plant during the late spring and summer....

Garden Phlox offers large, fragrant magenta flower clusters that attract butterflies and hummingbirds....

Coppertina Ninebark is a great new addition to the Ninebark family of native shrubs. Coppertina is a new cross between the golden ninebark 'Darks Gold' and the purple leafed ninebark Diabolo ('Monlo'). Plants have orange-copper foliage in the spring ...

Native Ninebark blooms for weeks in summer with clusters of white to pinkish flowers resembling Bridalwreath Spirea. In fall, seed is formed in reddish drooping clusters which are enjoyed by birds. On Ninebark's mature stems, the bark provides additi...

Wild Plum is grown as a single trunk tree or a multi-stemmed shrub. Wild Plum is a native tree that spreads to form large thickets and is among the first to bloom in spring with pure white, fragrant flowers....

Goldsturm Black-eyed Susan is among the best border perennials available. Goldsturm Black-eyed Susan is a selection of one of our native North American wildflowers. Plants make a bushy, upright clump with a profuse display of brown-eyed, yellow-orang...

Clssic Black-eyed Susan is an asy-to-grow, highly adaptable annual or biannual native wildflower. Does best with regular moisture as do its cultivars such as 'Prairie Sun' or 'Indian Summer.'...

Giant Coneflower makes a strong vertical statement with its large, smooth leaves and towering stems. It bears short, yellow ray flowers with giant, upright cones at the center. It prefers average soil with good drainage, and is excellent in native or...

Sweet Coneflower is a native superstar! In late summer, Sweet Coneflower puts on a dazzling display of typical golden yellow flowers with dark brown dome-shaped centers. The foliage of this long-lived resilient plant is medium green and forms a tidy ...

Rigid spikes of Mainacht Blue Salvia's dark blue flowers appear over aromatic blue-gray leaves in May and June. Superb color accent for any border....

Elderberry is a dramatic, thicket-forming shrub with bright green leaves. Showy clusters of fragrant white spring flowers followed by clusters of dark purple fall fruits....

Downy Skullcap has deep blue summer flowers that are held above large square-stemmed stalks, typical of mint family plants. The six inch leaves are toothed and covered with fine hairs....

Rosy Glow Sedum is a perfect choice for the front of a sunny border or for edging pathways. It forms a low mound of fleshy blue-grey rounded leaves, and bears clusters of deep pink to reddish flowers from late summer into autumn....

Showy Goldenrod is a midwest native that is found on dry sites. Showy Goldenrod features tiny, bright late summer yellow flowers borne in dense, erect clusters atop stiff reddish stems. Flowers bloom mid to late summer. Showy Goldenrod is one of the ...

Indian Pink is an excellent source of nectar for hummingbirds when it blooms in June. Plants form clumps with glossy green foliage topped by crimson red, trumpet-shaped flowers tipped in yellow. When a large colony is in bloom, it is a spectacular si...

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Nannyberry is an important food plant for winter wildlife. Fruits are deep-blue with a whitish coating. Nannyberry fruits ripen in late fall and turn glossy when the coating wears off. The leaves, oval with a pointed tip, emerge a soft yellow-green t...

Large attractive native shrub that is often found in the wild in bogs. They are showy in spring for their large clusters of small white flowers. In late summer, the fruit turn bright red and remain on throughout the winter or until harvested by birds...

'Zahara' Zinnia produces big flowers in a bright, bold color on a disease-resistant, heat-loving plant....

The "Profusion Series" comes in a variety of colors. All have vigorous habit and strong basal branching making them an excellent landscape choice. Blooms from early spring to fall and requires no deadheading to maintain blooming. Resists powdery mild...