Butterfly Bush
By Marye Audet
Butterfly bush or Buddleia davidii is a flowering bush that is native to China. This perennial plant forms clusters of fragrant flowers in purple, blue, pink, red, or white.
Butterfly bush
Buddleja × weyeriana 'Bicolor' (syn Flower Power)
Genus: Buddleja
Species: × weyeriana
Cultivar: 'Bicolor' (syn Flower Power) ...
Butterfly bush is a classic summer flowering shrub. Depending on the cultivar, it can start flowering in June and may continue flowering until late fall.
Butterfly bush is a fast growing, open, usually gangly shrub growing 6 to 10 feet tall with an overall coarse texture. Leaves are finely tooth, gray beneath and somewhat aromatic when crushed.
Butterfly Bush
Prepared by Cory Tanner, Horticulture Extension Agent, Clemson University. (New 12/07.)
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- Butterfly bush
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A rather superior, though tender butterfly bush,this species is more refined than the earthy Buddleja davidii.
Butterfly bushes are carefree deciduous shrubs that are reliably fragrant and easy to grow. Butterflies swarm to their blooms all summer long.
Butterfly bushes flower in summer - a good time for butterflies (and humans). The large flowers on the ends of the arching stems, are made up of many hundreds of individual small trumpet like flowers.
Orange Butterfly Bush Buddleia globosa Flower clusters Main Page Previous Next Info ...
Sungold Butterfly Bush
Buddleja x weyeriana 'Sungold'
Spikes of buttery-yellow, fragrant, blooms adorn this vigorous shrub from late spring to frost. Attracts loads of butterflies. Deadhead to promote rebloom.
Buddleia, Butterfly Bush
Marie Iannotti
Here in Pennsylvania, Butterfly bushes are the best. You get the beauty of the bush and the butterflies and hummingbirds love it. Submitted by Donna ...
Common garden butterfly bushes (Buddleia davidii, Buddleia lindleyana, Buddleia fallowiana) have flowers with a sweet honey fragrance that is strongest at midday.
Common name: Butterfly bush, Summer lilac
Botanical name: Buddleja davidii Family: Buddlejaceae (Butterfly bush family) ...
Red Buddleia, Red Butterfly Bush, Summer Lilac
All summer long, these fast-growing shrubs produce masses of fragrant flower clusters attractive to butterflies, moths and hummingbirds.
Honeycomb Butterfly Bush
Description
Buddleia spp. is a native to China.
Care and Growing Requirements for the Butterfly Bush
Buddleia davidii ...
Butterfly Bush
It is a delight to watch all types of butterflies sip nectar from the abundant flowers on this aptly named shrub.
About This Plant
Butterfly bush is a large, arching shrub that produces masses of flowers in midsummer to fall.
Butterfly bush (Buddleia madagascariensis).
Buttonwood (in the Combretaceae, the combretum family). A native of Bermuda, tropical North and South America and West Africa. Also known as sea mulberry or button mangrove.
BUTTERFLY BUSH
Cassia bicapsularis
General Notes
Branches don't droop, but susceptible to breakage. SelecTree lists no cultivars of bicapsularis.
Butterfly bush likes well drained, average soil. They thrive in fairly dry conditions once established. Roots may perish in wet soil. Butterfly bushes are semi-evergreen in climates with mild winters.
Butterfly bush is one of the most attractive plants to butterflies; the white varieties may be most attractive of all. The fragrant flowers, gray-green leaves and constant motion of winged insects are a delight in any landscape.
Butterfly bush, summer lilac (Buddleia davidii)
Summer savory (Satureja hortensis)
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Like larger butterfly bushes, it can be trained to mature into the form of a tree; or it can be annually pruned back to two feet to induce it to be a round compact shrub; or it can be given its space to fountain into its full breadth.
Butterfly Bush is cold hardy from zone 6 to warmer climates, but is like an herbaceous perennial in zone 5, dying back nearly to the ground in many winters, or succumbing in harsh ones.
Lindley's butterfly bush Buddleja lindleyana
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Buddleja davidii (butterfly bush)
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The former include introduced species of Logania (native to New Zealand and Australia) and several species of buddleia, or butterfly bush (genus Buddleia, sometimes considered a separate family).
'Nanho Purple' butterfly bush (Buddleja davidii 'Nanho Purple') Zone 5
Designing with mock oranges ...
Butterfly Bush (Buddelia) 3. Blueberries (Vaccinium) 4. Hawthorns (Crataegus) 5. Fruit Trees 6. New Jersey Tea (Ceanothus) 7. Privet (Ligustrum) 8. Lilac (Syringa) 9. Redbud (Cercis) 10. Spicebush (Lindera) 11. Spirea (Spirea) 12. Sumac (Rhus) ...
Black-eyed Susans (Rudbeckia fulgida) and Coneflowers (Echinacea purpurea) provide nectar for Monarchs, Swallowtails amd Fritillaries, and the Butterfly Bush (Buddleia davidii) is an excellent butterfly-attracting shrub.
Buddleia marrubifolia
Woolly butterfly bush
Loganiaceae Family
Compiled by the Master Gardeners
of the University of Arizona Pima County Cooperative Extension.
The colourful, nectar-rich flowers of the butterfly bush (Buddleja davidii) are a magnet for bees and butterflies from late summer into autumn.
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 See also: Pink, Lilac, Lavender, Hibiscus, Aster
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