What flowers attract a monarch butterfly?

We built butterfly houses and we want to attract butterflies to it. The butterflies go in to it then lay their eggs then leave. A while after caterpillars come crawling out.|||Milk weed is the number one plant for butterflies.That plant is natural for them.A butterfly bush is nice and will help but they lay eggs on milkweed and the caterpillars eat the plants leafs.|||Butterfly Bush. You can get them in any seed catalog. I think they sell them at Walmart as well.|||monarch butter flies like milkweed plants


http://www.kidzone.ws/animals/monarch_bu鈥?/a>|||My Grandpa told me every year to not cut all the milkweed when I was mowing his place as that was what the Monarchs lived and laid their eggs on. He always had a lot of Monarchs so I guess he was right.|||actually butterfly houses are for butterflies to hibernate in.


the houses are empty during the summer while the butterflies are active.


butterflies monarchs like to lay their eggs on butterfly weed, when the eggs hatch they baby caterpillars eat the plant to the ground as they grow. (the plant grows back the next year)


monarchs like almost any flower with nectar. In my gardens they visit the verbena, cone flowers, butterfly bushes, coreopsis, phlox, monarda, nepeta, salvia, yarrow, liatris, cleome, gaillardia.





other food sources for caterpillars will increase the number of butterflies you will see in your garden. Dill, Fennel, Parsley, Mustard are all easy to grow from seed and are great food for baby caterpillars.





here is a fact sheet from Clemson university about gardening for butterflies, happy gardening


http://hgic.clemson.edu/factsheets/HGIC1鈥?/a>