Host Plants currently available in our nursery.
(Host plants are what the butterfly lays it's eggs on and what the caterpillar eats. Each butterfly has a particular plant that it will use as a host plant.
Some flowering host plants can serve as a nectar source for a variity of butterfly species.)
Common name | Botanical name | Host or Nectar | Native | Size |
Corky Steam Passion Vine | Passiflora Suberosa | HOST | Yes | 3-gallon |
Lady Margret Passion Vine | Passiflora lady margaret | HOST | No | 3-gallon |
Yellow Passion Flower Vine | Passiflora Lutea | HOST | Yes | 1-gallon |
Maypop Passion Vine | Passiflora incarnata | HOST | Yes | 3-gallon |
Passion Flower Passion Vine | Passiflora Incense | HOST | No | 3-gallon |
Dutchman's Pipe Vine | Aristolochia gigantea | HOST | No | 3-gallon |
Wooly Pipe Vine | Aristolochia tomentosa | HOST | Yes | 1-gallon / 3-gallon |
Desert Cassia | Senna polyphylla | HOST / NECTAR | No | 3-gallon |
Candlestick Cassia | Senna alata | HOST / NECTAR | No | 3-gallon |
Winter Cassia | Senna or Cassia bicapsularis | HOST / NECTAR | No | 3-gallon |
Spice Bush | Lindera benzoin | HOST | Yes | 3-gallon |
Swamp Milkweed | Asclepias incarnata | HOST / NECTAR | Yes | 1-gallon |
Butterfly Weed | Asclepias tuberosa | HOST / NECTAR | Yes | 1-gallon |
Aquatic Milkweed | Asclepias perennis | HOST / NECTAR | Yes | 1-gallon |
Giant Milkweed (White Flower) | Calotropis Gigantea | HOST | No | 1-gallon / 3gallon |
Tropical Milkweed (Scarlet) | Asclepias currasavica | HOST / NECTAR | No | 1-gallon |
Wild Lime (Non Fruit Bearing) | Zanthoxylum fagara | HOST | Yes | 3-gallon |
Wafer Ash | Ptelea trifoliata | HOST | Yes | 3-gallon |
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Nectar Plants currently available in our nursery.
(Flowering plants that provide a food source for butterflies.)
Common name | Botanical name | Host or Nectar | Native | Size |
Red Porterweed | Stachytarpheta 'Red Compacta' | Nectar | No | 3-gallon |
Coral Porterweed | Stachytarpheta mutabilis | Nectar | No | 3-gallon |
Dark Purple | Stachytarpheta urticifolia | Nectar | No | 3-gallon |
Lavander Porterweed | Stachytarpheta | Nectar | No | 3-gallon |
Native Blue Porterweed | Stachytarpheta jamaicensis | Nectar | Yes | 3-gallon |
Golden Thryallis | Galphimia glauca | Nectar | No | 3-gallon |
Fire Spike Red | Odontonema strictum | Nectar | No | 3-gallon |
Powder Puff Red | Calliandra haematocephala | Nectar | No | 3-gallon |
Bat Face Cuphea | Cuphea llavea | Nectar | No | 1-gallon |
Jatropha | Jatropha integerrima | Nectar | No | 3-gallon |
Beauty Berry Purple | Callicarpa americana | Nectar | Yes | 3-gallon |
Beauty Berry White | Callicarpa americana lactea | Nectar | Yes | 3-gallon |
Buddleia Dark Night | Buddleia davidii | Nectar | No | 3-gallon |
Buddleia Nanho Blue | Buddleia davidii | Nectar | No | 3-gallon |
Buddleia Buzz Raspberry | Buddleia davidii | Nectar | No | 3-gallon |
Cape Honeysuckle Mango | Tecomaria Capensis | Nectar | No | 3-gallon |
Cape Honeysuckle Orange | Tecomaria capensis | Nectar | No | 3-gallon |
Coral Honeysuckle | Lonicera sempervirens | Nectar | Yes | 1-gallon |
Cat Whiskers | Orthosiphon aristatus | Nectar | No | 3-gallon |
Blue Bfly Clerodendrum | Clerodendrum ugandense | Nectar | No | 3-gallon |
Firebush | Hamelia Patens | Nectar | Yes | 3-gallon |
Sapphire Showers | Duranta erecta | Nectar | No | 3-gallon |
Lantana Ham & Eggs | Lantana camara | Nectar | No | 1-gallon |
Little Volcano Pea | Lespedeza thunbergii | Nectar | No | 3-gallon |
Mexican Bush Sage | Salvia leucantha | Nectar | No | 3-gallon |
Obedient Plant | Physostegia virginiana | Nectar | No | 1-gallon |
Pagoda Flower | Clerodendrum paniculatu | Nectar | No | 5-gallon |
Salvia Indigo Spires | Salvia Hybrid | Nectar | No | 1-gallon |
Sun Lady Vine | Thunbergia alata | Nectar | No | 3-gallon |
Vitex Flipside | Vitex 'Bailtexone' | Nectar | No | 3-gallon |
Vitex Shoal Creek | Vitex agnus-castus | Nectar | No | 3-gallon |
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