Native Plant to Attract Butterflies
Common Name |
Scientific Name |
| Blue Giant Hyssop | Agastache foeniculum |
| Yellow Giant Hyssop | Agastache nepetoides |
| Onions | Allium species |
| Lead Plant | Amorpha canescens |
| Columbine | Aquilegia canadensis |
| Swamp Milkweed | Asclepias incarnata |
| Prairie Milkweed | Asclepias sullivantii |
| Common Milkweed | Asclepias syriaca |
| Butterfly Milkweed | Asclepias tuberosa |
| Heath Aster | Aster ericoides |
| Smooth Aster | Aster laevis |
| Side-Flowering Aster | Aster lateriflorus |
| Big Leaved Aster | Aster macrophyllus |
| Hairy Aster | Aster pilosus |
| New Jersey Tea | Ceanothus americanus |
| Sand Coreopsis | Coreopsis lanceolata |
| White Prairie Clover | Dalea candida |
| Purple Prairie Clover | Dalea purpurea |
| Illinois Mimosa | Desmanthus illinoensis |
| Showy Tick Trefoil | Desmodium canadense |
| Illinois Tick Trefoil | Desmodium illinoense |
| Pale Purple Coneflower | Echinacea pallida |
| Purple Coneflower | Echinacea purpurea |
| Thoroughwort | Eupatorium species |
| Western Sunflower | Helianthus occidentalis |
| Pale Leaved Sunflower | Helianthus strumosus |
| False or Ox-Eye Sunflower | Heliopsis helianthoides |
| Rough Blazing Star | Liatris aspera |
| Prairie Blazing Star | Liatris pycnostachya |
| Marsh Blazing Star | Liatris spicata |
| Cardinal Flower | Lobelia cardinalis |
| Wild Lupine | Lupinus perennis |
| Wild Bergamot | Monarda fistulosa |
| Horse Mint | Monarda punctata |
| Phlox | Phlox species |
| Obedience Plant; False Dragonhead | Physostegia virginiana |
| Mountain Mint | Pycnanthemum species |
| Prairie Coneflower | Ratibida species |
| Rose | Rosa species |
| Black-Eyed Susan | Rudbeckia hirta |
| Sweet Black-Eyed Susan | Rudbeckia subtomentosa |
| Brown-Eyed Susan | Rudbeckia triloba |
| Cup Plant | Silphium perfoliatum |
| Prairie Dock | Silphium terebinthinaceum |
| Broadleaf Goldenrod | Solidago flexicaulis |
| Spiderwort | Tradescantia species |
| Blue Vervain | Verbena hastata |
| Rose or Hoary Vervain | Verbena stricta |
| Common Ironweed | Vernonia fasciculata |
| Violet | Viola species |
| Golden Alexanders | Zizia species |