Botanical Name: Buddleia davidii
Plant Type: Bush
Request to the sun: Full Sun
Soil Type: Any
Soil pH: Any
flowering time Summer, Autumn
Flower Color Pink, Purple, Red, White, Yellow
Features: Attracts Birds Attracts Butterflies
Characteristics of Butterfly Bush
Butterfly bush (Buddleia davidii), from summer blooming until autumn Masses - tall, thorny - a beautiful, fast-growing, deciduous shrub.
Its flowers come in many colors, but butterflies prefer the lavender pink (mauve) of the species to the white and dark purple varieties.
“summer lilacs” Also called butterfly bushes. The shrub is low maintenance, requiring only deadheading and annual pruning in the later winter months to encourage a flower and a compact shape.
Behavioral Status
Please note that butterfly bushes, originally imported from China, are classified as an invasive species in most US areas. In other words, butterfly bushes, including butterflies and birds wild life necessary for reproduces native plants known. In hot climates, can become a noxious weed And can spread aggressively, In colder climates, gardeners often remain in the cultivated soil of the garden if the flowers are dead.
“Butterfly” despite the name, this shrub's butterfly production and does not support lifecycle and remember that there is no “host plant” for butterflies. Caterpillars, butterflies do not feed on bushes; instead, just provides nectar to adult butterflies.
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