Verbena is relatively drought-tolerant once established, making it a low-maintenance choice for butterfly gardens. The ...

In the poem “Blue-Butterfly Day,” Robert Frost describes butterflies as “…flowers that fly and all ... Echinacea purpurea (common name purple coneflower), violets, lilac, yarrow ...

The Purple Emperor is rare among butterflies. It avoids flowers, preferring rotting animal corpses, faeces, mud puddles - and even human sweat. It dwells high in the tree tops in the domain of birds.

Your local native species is the best one for the butterflies ... Echinacea purpurea (purple coneflower) or E. pallida (pale purple coneflower). They are both splendid plants, absolutely garden ...