Below are suggestions from the Field Museum for host and nectar plants that are native to our region.
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Nectar Plants to Attract Butterflies to your Butterfly Garden from Gardens With Wings
Flowers:
Aster (Aster spp.)
Black-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)
Blazing Stars (Liatris spp.)
Butterfly Milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa)
Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis)
Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis)
Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)
Coneflowers (Echinacea purpurea)
Coreopsis (Coreopsis spp.)
Cosmos (Cosmos spp.)
Dianthus Family (Dianthus spp.)
Lantana (Lantana camara)
Marigold (Tagetes spp.)
Mexican Sunflowers (Tithonia rotundifolia)
Petunia (Petunia x hybrida)
Salvia (Salvia spp.)
Shasta Daisy (Leucanthemum spp.)
Sunflower (Helianthus spp.)
Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata)
Swamp Verbena (Verbena hastata)
Tall Verbena (Verbena bonariensis)
Thistle (Cirsium discolor)
Violet (Viola spp. )
Woodland Stonecrop (Sedum ternatum)
Yarrow (Achillea spp.)
Zinnia (Zinnia elegans)