Monarch Butterfly Favorite Plant. It quickly became their favorite nectar plant. Without milkweed plants there can be no monarch butterflies it s as simple as that.
This monarch favorite is also constantly visited by a large variety of butterflies bees and birds. Brazilian verbena probably has the largest variety of pollinators in our northern garden. This is a butterfly plant no garden should be without.
Examples would be milkweed and favorite nectar plants for the monarch or planting favorite nectar plants for the spice bush swallowtail around my spice bush plant.
If you want to focus on attracting monarch butterflies try planting milkweed zinnias and miss molly bush. It quickly became their favorite nectar plant. Brazilian verbena probably has the largest variety of pollinators in our northern garden. Find out more about verbena bonariensis.