Wildlife Gardening Journal

Cowpen Daisies, a Fall Butterfly and Bee Favorite

You won’t find them for sale at garden stores or nurseries, but cowpen daisies, Verbesina encelioides, also known as golden crownbeard, are a favorite flower for fall butterflies and bees. In my yard, asters and cowpen daisies steal the show when summer starts to wind down, and migrating monarchs never fail to find my patches ...

Liatris: a Wonderful Butterfly-Attracting Plant

While exploring Sequoyah State Park in Oklahoma with friends one weekend, we came across a stand of tall pink flowers covered in butterflies. They enchanted me and I asked to stop. My friends, seeing spectacular wildflowers, dozens of butterflies and bees, and a camera in my hand, happily dumped me on the roadside. They knew ...