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Flowering plants which attract butterflies.
Verbena speciosa
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Imagination
Bloom Season: Spring to Fall
Bloom Color: Blue
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 12"
Mature Width: 20"
Description:
All-American and Fleuroselect winner. Small flowers of intense blue-violet in masses for bedding, container. Garden Notes: This may be my favorite plant to attract and feed adult butterflies. It begins blooming early and doesn't stop until a hard freeze. It is an annual, but reseeds itself to begin blooming for next years go round.
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Teucrium aroanium
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Gray Creeping Germander
Bloom Season: Summer to Fall
Bloom Color: Lilac
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 6"
Mature Width: 15"
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Scabiosa columbaria
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Pincushion 'nana'
Bloom Season: Midsummer to frost
Bloom Color: Blue
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 10"
Description:
Nice compact plant, blooms nicely, good for feeding butterflies. Can deadhead occasionally to prolong bloom. Very hardy, dependable. |
Scabiosa caucasica
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Pincushion 'perfecta clear blue'
Bloom Season: Midsummer to frost
Bloom Color: Blue
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 24"
Mature Width: 18"
Description:
Clear blue flowers, Hardy perennial for border or cut flower, deadheading ensures longer blooming. Classic blooms for butterflies. |
Salvia officinalis
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Sage
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Blue
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 30"
Mature Width: 30"
Description:
Herb used for seasoning. Violet blooms attract small butterflies. Attractive plant. Gray-green leaves. |
Salvia jurisicii
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: European Cutleaf Sage
Bloom Season: Summer to Fall
Bloom Color: Blue
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 4"
Mature Width: 14"
Description:
Vigorous plants with ferny foliage. Upside down blue flowers. Garden Notes: Plant out small.
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Salvia farinacea
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Victoria Blue
Bloom Season: Spring to Frost
Bloom Color: Blue
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 18"
Mature Width: 14"
Description:
Deep blue flowers, long bloom season When deadheaded. Cut to new growth early spring. Long lived. |
Ruta graveolens
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Common Name: Rue
Bloom Color: Greenish/Yellow
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 30"
Mature Width: 30"
Description:
Aromatic, ferny, blue-green leaves. DO NOT EAT. Advertised as herb for salads, but may have side effects |
Rudbeckia fulgida
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Common Name: Goldstrum
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Yellow
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 18"
Mature Width: 24"
Description:
Denver Botanical Gardens Plant Select 1999 Large, long blooming plant covered with yellow blooms in summer. Gets bigger and better each year. |
Rhus microphylla
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Common Name: Little-Leafed Sumac
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 120"
Mature Width: 120"
Description:
Panhandle native Deciduous shrub small leaves, Dark red tart edible berries red fall color Moderate to rapid growth, natural low hedge. |