Interested in attracting butterflies to your property? The Florida Museum offers native, nectar, host and accent plants for purchase, with proceeds benefiting the Florida Museum’s Butterfly Rainforest. Find out what species you can attract and which butterfly-attracting plants are proven winners!
The plant sale is held outside the Museum’s front entrance near the picnic area, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday.
Prices: Plant prices start at $3 for a 4″ pot and most 1-gallon pots are $6 each. Larger sizes may be available ranging from $12 to $18 for a 3-gallon pot.
Availability: Fifteen plants will be featured each week
September 22nd-September 24th
Pentas, Egyptian Star Flower- Swamp Milkweed
- Dwarf Turk’s Cap
- Musical Notes
- Parsley
- Flowering Maple
- Anise Hyssop
- Orange Bulbine
- Twinflower
- Red-leaf Hibiscus
- Brazilian Plume
- Wild Plumbago
- Bleeding Heart Vine
- Lady Margaret Passionflower
- Passionfruit
- Dwarf Powderpuff
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Butterflyfest 2017 Plant Sale, Oct.6-Oct.8
Come on out the first weekend of October for one of the museum’s largest plant sales of the year, with over 150 plant species! Host plants for caterpillars, nectar plants for adult butterflies and some unusual ornamental for plant buffs, there are plants for everyone at the sale. Please remember that stock may be limited and not guaranteed for all 3 days of the sale.
Keep an eye out for this space as the list of plants for sale at Butterflyfest continues to grow!
- Whorled Milkweed
- Aquatic Milkweed
- Swamp Milkweed
- Butterfly Weed
- Pinewoods Milkweed
- Wild Hydrangea
- Blanketflower
- Aquamarine Pilea
- Candy Corn Vine
- Madagascar Butterflybush
- Bush Clover
- Cardinalflower
- Princess Flower
- Large-flower False Rosemary
- Bolivian Sage
- Arrowleaf Sage
- Wood Sage
- Water Hyssop
- Water Dropwort
- Swamp Twinflower
- Blue Curls
- Climbing Hydrangea
- Tulip Poplar
- Candlestick Senna
- Wild Plumbago
- Florida Pennyroyal
- Blue Ginger
- Bear's Foot
- Lady Margaret Passionflower
- Pale-leaf Woodland Sunflower
- Farfugium
- Turk’s Cap
- Weeping Bottlebrush
- Woolly Dutchman’s Pipe
- Coontie
- Purple Passion Cuphea
- Obedient Plant
- Wild Lime
- Lyreleaf Sage
- Orange Plume
- Narrowleaf Yellowtop
- Mexican Heather
- Hercules’ Club
- Christmas Senna
- Dotted Horsemint
- Shrimp Plant
- Walter’s Viburnum
- Oak Leaf Hydrangea
- Blue Eyed Grass, Purple Eyed Grass
- Turkey Tangle Fogfruit
- Starry Rosinweed
- Coral Honeysuckle
- Brazilian Red Cloak
- Sunshine Mimosa
- Stokes’ Aster
- Golden Shrimp Plant
- Brazilian Sage
- Hot Lips Salvia
- Yucatan Passionflower
- Tall Narrow-leaf Sunflower
- Twinflower
- Wild Coffee
- Yellow Canna
- Squirrel’s Tail
- Scorpiontail Heliotrope
- Simpson’s Stopper
- Sassafras
- Lavender Lady Passionflower
- False Nettle
- Dwarf Red Porterweed
- Brazilian Plume
- Bleeding Heart Vine
- Trailing Lantana
- Purple Coneflower
- Mexican Flame Vine
- Pentas, Egyptian Star Flower
- Golden Dewdrop
- Flowering Maple
- Firebush
- Scarlet Hibiscus
- Red Firespike
- Mayan Spinach Tree
- Cat's Whiskers
- Sweet Almond Bush
- Beach Sunflower
- Blue Passionflower
- Indian Birthwort
- Maypops, Purple Passionflower
- Snow Squarestem
- Tropical Sage
- Carolina Petunia
- Blue Woodland Phlox
- Leavenworth's Coreopsis
- Hybrid Lantana
- Blue Plumbago
- Porterweed
- Blue Porterweed
- Southern River Sage
- Persian Shield
- orange cestrum
- Passionfruit
- Indigo Porterweed
- Starfish Flower
- Corky Stemmed Passionflower
- Golden Ragwort
- Georgia Aster
- Atlantic St. John’s Wort
- Dutchman's Pipe
- Red-leaf Hibiscus
- Silver Leafed Princess Flower
- African Bush Daisy
- Nodding Clerodendrum
- Coral Fountain
- Orange Bulbine
- Brazilian Petunia
- Ironweed
- Parsley
- Blazing Star
- Gaura
- Mexican Bush Sage
- Cut-leaf Coneflower
- peregrina
- Bog Sage
- Abelia Cultivars
- Maui Series Ixora
- Dwarf Turk’s Cap
- Butterflybush
- Dwarf Indigo Bush
- Pineland Hibiscus
- Skyflower
- Florida Paintbrush
- Narrow-leaf Ironweed
- Beach Verbena
- Pickerelweed
- Yaupon Holly
- Spicebush
- Paw Paw
- Rattlesnalkemaster
- Dwarf Powderpuff
- Angelwing Begonia
- Empress Eugenie Passionflower
- Mellow Yellow Cuphea
- Giant Joe-Pye Weed
- Musical Notes
- Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
- Sky Flower Bush
- Pagoda Plant
- Bat Face Cuphea
- Flyr’s Nemesis
- Scarlet Sage Cultivars
- Mexican Tarragon
- Angel’s Trumpet
- Coral Bean
- Beautyberry
- Lanceleaf Coreopsis
- Tall Cigar Plant
- Calico Dutchman's Pipe
Help close the gap between urban students and nature
The Florida Museum of Natural History is raising funds and accepting plant donations for butterfly gardens in area schools.
Museum scientists partnered with Duval and Williams elementary schools to open children’s eyes to the unique metamorphosis that occurs during butterfly development and the responsibilities involved in caring for a garden. The Museum is now raising funds and requesting donations of plants to create additional butterfly gardens throughout the Alachua County area.
Read more or donate today! Donations may be made online, by visiting the Florida Museum’s plant sale or by calling the Museum Collectors Shop, 352-273-2041.