Blooms Identification

You can’t have butterflies without blooms…

Below you will find of list of blooms you may see in the exhibit this year! If you can’t remember them all, that’s ok: ID signs will be available for you inside the butterfly exhibit!
Blooms will change as the season progresses.

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Nectar Plants (Inside Exhibit – Subject to Change)

  • Ageratum
  • Alice and Ellen Huff Hydrangea
  • Buttonbush
  • Bandolista Red Chili Lantana
  • Impatiens Sun Patiens
  • Jaguar Scarlet Shades Dark Center Gerber Daisy
  • Lanai Twister Hot Lips and Twister Red
  • Lantana Camara
  • Mega Revolution Scarlet Red with Light Eve Gerber Daisy
  • Pugster Pinker and Pugster Blue Butterfly Bush
  • Sonic Orange New Guinea Impatiens
  • Starcluster Red Pentas’
  • Sensation Deep Blue Salvia
  • Zinnia

Host Plants (All Outside Exhibit)

  • Arrowwood Viburnum
  • Asters
  • Baptisia
  • Beebalm
  • Blazing Star
  • Blue False Indigo
  • Butterfly Weed
  • Buttonbush
  • Cupcake Cosmos
  • Little Bluestem
  • Magic Show White Wands Veronica
  • Meadow Sage
  • Meadow Zizia
  • Ninebark
  • Pale Purple , Orange, and Grey Head Coneflower
  • Papaw
  • Pink Muhly Grass
  • Pink Profusion Salvia
  • Prairie Dropseed
  • Rattlesnake Master
  • Russian Sage
  • Swamp Milkweed
  • Spicebush
  • Strawberry Seduction Yarrow
  • Sweetbay Magnolia
  • Western Sunflower