Butterflies - Attracting Butterflies
to the Desert Southwest Garden

Butterflies are beautiful to watch and also perform a very important task in the desert garden, pollinating flowers!

Different butterflies are attracted to different plants, so having a wide variety of flowering shrubs and plants will bring in a more diverse range of butterflies.

If you don't have room for many plants you can still attract butterflies with butterfly feeders, they contain nectar which entices butterflies to your garden.

Below is a partial list of some of the flowering plants that butterflies are attracted to in the desert Southwest: