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Add some motion, beauty and life to your
Florida landscape with the addition of a vibrant
butterfly garden. The plant list below is divided into
two categories; plants which serve as a host (H), and
those which butterflies select for their nectar (N).
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Nectar Preferences
Different species of butterflies have different
preferences of nectar, in both colors and tastes. A wide
variety of food plants will give the greatest diversity
of visitors. Try staggering wild and cultivated plants,
as well as blooming times of the day and year. Groups of
the same plants will be easier for butterflies to see
than singly planted flowers.
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White Indigoberry, Randia aculeata H
Fogfruit (Capeweed), Rhyla nodiflora N
Cabbage Palm (Sabal Palm), Sabal palmatto N
Privet Wild Sensitive Plant, Senna ligustrina H
Chapman's Wild Sensitive Plant, Senna mexicana H
Yellow Necklacepod, Sophora tomentosa H
Nettleleaf Velvetberry (Porterweed), Stachytarpheta
urticifolia N
Wild Lime, Zanthoxylum fagara H
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Cape Sable Whiteweed, Ageratum iittoraie N
Climbing Aster, Aster carolinianus N
Browne's Blechum, Blechum pyramidatum H
False Nettle, Boehmeria cylindrica H
American Beautyberry, Callicarpa americana N
Partridge Pea, Chamaecrista fasciculata H
Florida Fiddlewood, Citharexylum spinosum N
Blue Mistflower, Conoclinium coelestinum N
Curacao Bush, Cordia globosa H
Golden Dewdrops, Duranta erecta N
Coastal Mock Vervain, Glandularia maritima N
Firebush, Hamelia patens N
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Railroad Vine, Ipomoea pes-caprae N
Shrub Verbena, Lantana depressa N
Buttonsage, Lantana involucrata N
Southern Bayberry (Wax Myrtle), Myrica cerifera H
Corkystemed Passionflower, Passiflora suberasa H
Pentas, Pentas lanceolata N
Red Bay, Persea borbonia H
Florida Keys Blackbead, Pitheceliobium keyense H
Doctorbush (White Plumbago), P1umbago scandens N
Wild Coffee, Psychotria nervosa N
Live Oak, Quercus virginiana H
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