Types of Butterfly Bushes
'Lochinch' is a hybrid (B. davidii x B. fallowiana) butterfly bush cultivar which typically grows 3-5' tall in one season with an arching, mounded habit.
Plant database entry for Himalayan Butterfly Bush (Buddleja crispa) with 9 images and 20 data details.
Instead of being sucked in by butterfly bush's beauty, start making the connection between plants, butterflies, and other members of the food web, and work more native host plants into your landscape, such as butterfly weed, other milkweeds, joe-pye weed, and oak trees.
Growing Butterfly Bushes in the Garden: How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Buddleja, or Buddleia. Growing Butterfly Bushes in the Garden: How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Buddleja, or Buddleia.
The Butterfly Bush (Buddleia davidii) is a beautiful, fast-growing, deciduous shrub with masses of blossoms—long, seductively spiked trusses—that bloom from summer to autumn. The flowers come in many colors, though butterflies prefer the lavenderpink (mauve) of the species to the white and dark purple cultivars.
Instead of being sucked in by butterfly bush's beauty, start making the connection between plants, butterflies, and other members of the food web, and work more native host plants into your landscape, such as butterfly weed, other milkweeds, joe-pye weed, and oak trees.
The Butterfly Bush (Buddleia davidii) is a beautiful, fast-growing, deciduous shrub with masses of blossoms—long, seductively spiked trusses—that bloom from summer to autumn. The flowers come in many colors, though butterflies prefer the lavenderpink (mauve) of the species to the white and dark purple cultivars.
Buddleja Species, Square-stemmed Butterfly Bush, False Olive Tree Buddleja saligna
Buddleja utahensis Coville Buddleja utahensis is a species of Buddleja endemic to the southwestern United States (northwest Arizona, eastern California, southern Nevada, and southwestern Utah), where it is known by the common names Utah butterfly bush and Panamint butterfly bush.
Fountain butterfly bush is a shrub. Fountain butterfly bush is a tall shrub or small tree native to China. By far the hardiest of the butterfly bushes, it performs reliably as a true shrub in most conditions (many others die to the ground in winter and are best treated as perennials).
Wilson, in his 1913 A Naturalist in Western China, describes his trip into northwestern Szechuan Province by stating "Summer Lilac was a wonderful sight - thousands of bushes, each one with masses of violet-purple flowers, delighting the eye on all sides".