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Zandvlei Trust Gardening with Butterflies These are just some plants and flowers to attract Butterflies to your garden and importantly to supply them with food and host plants for the larvae. |
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Plants |
Butterfly |
| Host Plants |
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| Wild grasses – Ehrharta grass |
Autumn Browns, Skippers |
| Milkweeds, Stapelias, Sting-of-hearts |
African Monarch |
| Wild Peach tree (Kiggelaria) |
Garden Acraea |
| Plumbago | Common Blue |
| Lupins, Clover, Lucerne | Clouded Yellow, Lucerne Blue |
| Citrus, fennel, Blister bush | Citrus Swallowtail |
| Pelargoniums | Geranium Blue |
| Peanut Butter Cassia | African Migrant |
| Colpoon Compressum | Dotted Border |
| Arctotis (Gousblom), Mallow, Hollyhock | Painted Lady |
| Butterfly attracting flowers | – |
| Daisies, Lupins, Lucerne, Sweet William, Valarian, Verbena, Pentas, Buddleias | – |
| Catmint, Lavender, Rosemary | – |
| White flowers – Plumbago | – |
| Red flowers – Red Disa, Red Crassula | – |
