CEG Butterfly Garden

Attracting butterflies to the garden is the focus of this combination of perennials, spring blooming bulbs, and trees and shrubs to provide accent and balance. This list is current as of February 2026.

Perennials

• Achillea filipendulina ‘Gold Plate’ – yarrow
• Achillea ‘Terracotta’ – yarrow
• Agastache ‘Blue Fortune’ – hyssop
• Asclepias speciosa – showy milkweed
• Asclepias tuberosa ‘Clay Orange’ – butterfly weed
• Aster latifolius ‘Lady in Black’
• Buddleia Lo & Behold® ‘Blue Chip’ – butterfly bush
• Calluna vulgaris – ‘Silver Knight’ heather
• Clematis x lawsoniana ‘Henryi’ – large-flowered clematis
• Coreopsis lanceolata – lance-leaved coreopsis/tickseed
• Coreopsis verticillata ‘Zagreb’ – tickseed
• Dianthus x American Pie ‘Georgia Peach Pie’
• Dianthus gratianopolitanus – Cheddar pink
• Echinacea purpurea – purple coneflower
• Eriogonum umbellatum – sulfur buckwheat
• Erysimum cheiri ‘Charity Scarlet’ – wallflower
• Eutrochium purpureum – Joe-Pye weed
• Helenium autumnale ‘Mariachi Fuego’
• Heliopsis helianthoides – false sunflower/ox-eye daisy
• Iris ensata ‘variegata’
• Lavendula stoeches ‘Blueberry Ruffles’ – lavender
• Limonium sinuatum – sea lavender statice
• Lupinus polyphullus – bigleaf lupine
• Mirabilis jalapa – four o’clock
• Monarda didyma – bee balm
• Oenothera fremontii ‘Shimmer’ – evening primrose
• Panicum virgatum ‘Shenandoah’ – switchgrass
• Potentilla fruticosa ‘Pink Beauty’
• Phlox paniculata ‘David’
• Ratibida columnifera – Mexican hat/upright prairie coneflower
• Rudbeckia triloba – brown-eyed Susan
• Salvia azurea – prairie sage
• Salvia ‘Maraschino’
• Salvia nemorosa ‘Marcus’
• Salvia nemorosa ‘Sensation Rose’
• Sedum ‘Golden Carpet Sedum Acre’
• Solidago ‘Little Lemon’ – goldenrod
• Tanacetum parthenium – feverfew/tansies
• western ironweed
• Viola

Bulbs

• Allium ‘Ambassador’ – ornamental onion
• Allium ‘Silver Spring’ – ornamental onion
• Allium ‘Summer Drummer’ – ornamental onion
• Hyacinths
• Muscari aucheri ‘White Magic’
• Muscari paradadoxu ‘Grape’

Trees & Shrubs

Utility Friendly trees are designated as “UF”

• Amelanchier x grandiflora ‘Autumn Brilliance’ – serviceberry – UF: 15ft x 25ft
• Cornus alba ‘Elegantissima’ – red twig dogwood
• Cornus ‘Cardinal’ – red twig dogwood
• Symphoricarpos albus – snowberry