Flowers That Monarchs Like. Plants are floriferous producing an abundance of long lasting fragrant floral spikes early summer through fall. Plants and flowers butterflies like mainly as sources for nectar.
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For caterpillars consider plants like violets milkweed and asters learn more about milkweed the only host plant for monarchs. While roses are a popular plant in a flowering garden. The taller variety of these flowers may also attract.
Monarchs will be twice as happy when you plant this bright orange flower since it is both a source of nectar and a host plant for their caterpillars.
As a member of the daisy family cosmos flowers are appealing to monarch butterflies because of their abundant flowers and rich nectar stores although a cosmos blossom looks like one flower it is actually made up of many different tiny tubular flowers surrounded by a ray of petals. Plants are floriferous producing an abundance of long lasting fragrant floral spikes early summer through fall. These are the plants and butterfly flowers both native and non native that have attracted the most butterflies to our garden and to other gardens across north america. With butterflies come other wonderful creatures so we thought that s something you d like to know.
