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.
Nectar Plants (Inside Exhibit – Subject to Change)
- Alice and Ellen Huff Hydrangea
- Artist Blue Ageratum
- Bandana Lemon Zest Lantana
- Buttonbush Dahlia
- Easy Wave Series Petunias
- Homestead Purple Verbena
- Jaguar Deep Orange Gerber Daisy
- New Guinea Impatiens “Sonic Orange”
- Pentas
- Picardy Clematis
- Pink Hibiscus
- State Fair Zinnia
- SunPatiens Compact Series
- Superbena Red Verbena
- Vernique Dark Blue Speedwell
Host Plants (All Outside Exhibit)
- Asters
- Black Knight Butterfly Bush
- Blazing Star
- Blue False Indigo
- Butterfly Weed
- Cupcake Cosmos
- Lo and Behold Butterfly Bush
- Meadow Zizia
- Ninebark
- Pale Purple , Orange, and Grey Head Coneflower
- Papaw
- Spicebush
- Swamp Milkweed
- Sweetbay Magnolia
- Tonto Crapemyrtle
- Baptisia
- Rattlesnake Master
- Beebalm
- Buttonbush
- Western Sunflower
- Arrowwood Viburnum
- Prairie Dropseed
- Little Bluestem
- Pink Muhly Grass