Zebra Longwing on Lantana. This variety of Lantana ( a mostly deep yellow/orange and growing very tall ) has attracted every butterfly in my garden.
I have Purple Weeping Lantana, Yellow Lantana, and a Pale Yellow Lantana all low growing, that has attracted only a few.
Thunbergia ( King's Mantle ) Only small Blues are attracted to this beautiful flowered plant. The blooms are not suitable to a butterflies probicious. Not even hummingbirds
visit this inviting looking flower.
My butterfly rearing house. These are monarch pupae.
Purple Passionflower ( Maypop ). A beautiful flower but it's the foilage that is the real attractor for it is the larval food for the Zebra Longwings and the
Gulf Frittilaries.
This is one of my fence lines. My style of gardening is to let things grow together. In the forefront are red pentas, the middle is a tall
lantana, and mixed within are tropical passion vine, crossandra, spanish needles, mallow, impatiens, and many other plants that
do and do not attract butterflies. My garden is probably 40% butterfly plants.
This is Jatropha. It is a tropical looking ornamental tree. The Zebra Longwings love the nectar of the clusters of red flowers that bloom abundantly
This is a Tropical Passionflower, a beautiful passionflower but do not offer this to your butterflies as the larvae will not be able to nourish on these.
Buddleia also is known as "Butterfly Bush". ( There are many plants known as "Butterfly Bush!" ) It comes in a variety of colors. My bush has taken a couple of years to become a good producer of
blooms and noticed by the butterflies. Very Fragrant. The white flower to the right of it is "Cat Whiskers".