Butterfly Plants & Landscaping Resources
Want to see more butterflies? Plant a butterfly garden!
The most successful butterfly gardens include a variety of host plants (food sources for butterfly caterpillars, which draw in adult butterflies who want to lay eggs on them) and nectar plants (food sources for adult butterflies). Native plants are ideal both because they are best suited to survive in your region and because they are the best food & habitat sources for your local butterflies.
Check out our Quick Guide for Butterfly Gardens for more tips and some plant suggestions!
Below you will find links for:
Please note the links are offered as options,
but are not endorsements.
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Happy gardening!!
Native Garden Design Resources
Please note the links are offered as options, but are not endorsements.
UBI Quick Guide for Butterfly Landscapes
Grow Native – Garden Designs
Indianapolis Native Planting Program-Garden Designs
Pollinator Pockets – designs for small (4’x6’) native plant gardens
Prairie Moon Nursery-How to Grow a Native Prairie from Seed
www.prairiemoon.com/blog/resources-and-information/how-to-grow-a-prairie-from-seed
Wild Ones – Native Garden Designs
Native Plant Lists, IDs, & Info
Please note the links are offered as options, but are not endorsements.
Illinois Wildflowers
Minnesota Wildflowers
Missouri Botanical Garden – Plant Finder
www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/plantfinder/plantfindersearch.aspx
National Wildlife Federation - Native Plant Finder
Pollinator Partnership – Native Plants for Gardens
Prairie Moon Nursery - Native plant information
Xerces Society – Pollinator Plant Lists
xerces.org/pollinator-conservation/pollinator-friendly-plant-lists
Sources to Buy Native Plants
Please note the links are offered as options, but are not endorsements.
Coles County SWCD (local Spring sale)
www.colescountyswcd.org/sales-and-rentals/prairie-plant-sale/
Douglas-Hart Nature Center (local Spring sale)
Grand Prairie Friends (local Spring sale)
Possibility Place Nursery (mail order or local pickup in Monee, IL)
Prairie Moon Nursery (mail order)