Planting For Butterflies - Host/Food Plants
Include these plants in your garden for butterflies to hatch out caterpillars on.
Asters
Symphyotrichum spp.
Stokes Aster
Stokesia spp.
Shasta daisy
Leucanthemum spp.
Sunflower
Helianthus spp.
Angelica
Angelica spp.
False Indigo
Baptisia spp.
Stonecrop
Sedum spp.
Hylotelephium Stonecrop
Hylotelephium spp.
Garden Nasturtium
Tropaeolum majus
Ornamental Grasses
Milkweed
Asclepias spp.
Bird's Foot Trefoil
Lotus corniculatus
Common Broom
Cytisus scoparius ssp. scoparius
Honesty
Lunaria annua
Hop
Humulus lupulus
Common Ivy
Hedera helix
Lady's Smock
Cardamine pratensis
Garlic Mustard
Alliaria petiolata
Plume Thistle
Cirsium spp.
Sorrel
Rumex acetosa
Broad-leaved dock
Rumex obtusifolius
Stinging Nettle
Urtica dioica
Thistle
Carduus spp.
Alder Buckthorn
Frangula alnus
Blackthorn
Prunus spinosa
Purging Buckthorn
Rhamnus cathartica
Holly
Ilex aquifolium
English Oak
Quercus robur
Brassicas