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 exhibit. Discover which pollinator species you can attract and learn about the butterfly-friendly plants that work best in your landscape.
The plant sale is held outside the Museum’s front entrance near the picnic area, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
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
March 22-23
Remember that supplies are limited, so come early if there is a species you really want.
Pentas, Egyptian Star Flower- Blue Eyed Grass, Purple Eyed Grass
- Tropical Milkweed
- Sweet Almond Bush
- Butterflybush
- Leavenworth's Coreopsis
- Gaura
- Brazilian Plume
- Hot Lips Salvia
- Princess Flower
- Sunshine Mimosa
- Pink Sage
- Golden Ragwort
- Dwarf Yellow Mussaenda
- Copper Canyon Daisy
Spring Plant Sale – April 5-7
Join us from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and 1 to 5 p.m. on Sunday for the biggest plant sale of the year for the Museum! With more than 150 species of plants to choose from, you are likely to find a great addition to your garden! Supplies will be limited so come early!
Below is a continuously growing list of species available for the 2019 Spring Plant Sale!
- Swamp Milkweed
- Aquatic Milkweed
- Butterfly Weed
- Eastern Bluestar
- Gulf Croton
- Carolina Larkspur
- Pine Lily
- Firebush
- Firefly Firebush
- Wild Coffee
- Fever Tree
- Partridgeberry
- Buttonbush
- Florida Privet
- Southern Catalpa
- Florida Anise
- Walter's Violet
- Shortleafed Blazing Star
- Giant Joe-Pye Weed
- Purple Coneflower
- Leavenworth's Coreopsis
- Lanceleaf Coreopsis
- Pink Coreopsis
- Snow Squarestem
- Garberia
- Starry Rosinweed
- Golden Ragwort
- Stokes’ Aster
- Florida Greeneyes
- Soft Greeneyes
- Ironweed
- Florida Marigold
- Rayless Sunflower
- Lakeside Sunflower
- Florida Sunflower
- Swamp Sunflower
- Wingstem
- Purple Thistle
- Blanketflower
- Florida Indian Plantain
- Cottony Goldenaster
- Rose Mallow
- Swamp Mallow
- Scarlet Hibiscus
- Poppy Mallow
- Cardinalflower
- Maypops, Purple Passionflower
- Corky Stemmed Passionflower
- Coontie
- Florida Pennyroyal
- Tropical Sage
- Lyreleaf Sage
- Southern River Sage
- Large-flower False Rosemary
- Wood Sage
- Florida Mountainmint
- Browne’s Savory
- Fringe Tree
- Royal Catchfly
- Water Hyssop
- Winged Loosestrife
- Coastal Doghobble
- Deerberry
- Sparkleberry
- Rusty Staggerbush
- Swamp Azalea
- Pinxter Azalea
- Flame Azalea
- Oak Leaf Hydrangea
- Climbing Hydrangea
- Atlantic St. John’s Wort
- Paw Paw
- Tulip Poplar
- Yaupon Holly
- Wild Plumbago
- Indian Pink
- Yellow Canna
- Bird Pepper
- Hercules’ Club
- Wild Lime
- Meadow Rue
- Eastern Columbine
- Blue Eyed Grass, Purple Eyed Grass
- Turkey Tangle Fogfruit
- Coral Honeysuckle
- Hairy Lespedeza
- White Indigo
- Sunshine Mimosa
- American Wisteria
- False Nettle
- Virginia Sweetspire
- Skyflower
- Wild Strawberry
- Golden Alexander
- Southern Maidenhair Fern
- Meadow Parsnip
- Water Dropwort
- New Jersey Tea
- Sweetbay Magnolia
- Red Buckeye
- Walter’s Viburnum
- Carolina Petunia
- Swamp Twinflower
- Twinflower
- Simpson’s Stopper
- Sassafras
- Pentas, Egyptian Star Flower
- Tricolor Stromanthe
- Cherries Jubilee Allamanda
- Variegated Shell Ginger
- Miss Huff Lantana
- Dwarf Yellow Mussaenda
- Banana Shrub
- Candy Corn Vine
- Madagascar Butterflybush
- Darcy's Mexican Sage
- Indigo Porterweed
- Rattlesnake Calathea
- Candlestick Senna
- Purple Firespike
- Farfugium
- Silver Leafed Princess Flower
- Fragrant Tea Olive
- Nodding Clerodendrum
- Mexican Heather
- Mexican Tarragon
- Brazilian Fireworks
- Brazilian Sage
- Squirrel’s Tail
- Bleeding Heart Vine
- Standing Cypress
- Tropical Milkweed
- Flowering Maple
- Beach Sunflower
- Persian Shield
- Blue Peacock Selaginella
- Calico Pepper
- Princess Flower
- Sky Flower Bush
- White Butterfly Ginger
- Brazilian Petunia
- Candle Plant
- Angel’s Trumpet
- Forsythia Sage
- Fragrant Delight Heliotrope
- Hot Lips Salvia
- Sweet Almond Bush
- Blue Passionflower
- Indian Birthwort
- Blue Plumbago
- peregrina
- Anise Hyssop
- Bat Face Cuphea
- Chaste Tree
- Verbena
- Lime Sizzler Firebush
- Yellowroot
- Tall Blazingstar
- Blue Glory Vine
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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.