Fall Blooms for Butterflies

Fall blooms help support monarchs with necessary nectar for food and energy on their journey south. Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas share a common path on the long trip to Mexico. The wildflower colors add to the otherwise dry August and September landscape.

Consider planting some fall blooming wildflowers to expand your Waystation. If you are new to my blog, you may not know what a Waystation is. You can look back at a previously posted blog or go to okiesformonarchs.org.

Fall Blooms

• Goldenrod is a bright yellow flower that often adorns roadsides and pastures.
• Turks Cap prefers shade and also draws hummingbirds.
• Snow on the Mountain
• Mountain Marigold
• Black and Brown-eyed Susans are easy to grow
• Sumac
• Turkey Tangle Frog Fruit—-say that three times. 😊
• Prairie Blazing Star and Rough Blazing Star
• Partridge Pea—this is planted in mass at the Gathering Place in Tulsa, but you may have to search for the plot. Absolutely beautiful.

Other late blooms that are not wildflowers

• Dill—Swallow Tail butterflies like one.
• Autumn Joy Sedum—One friend shared that several Monarchs enjoyed her plant one year.
• Zennias may bloom all season.

Several nurseries in Oklahoma may have late fall blooming flowers: Prairie Wind Nursery and Bustani Plant Farm to name a few. My flowerbed is host to several species from Bustani Plant Farm.

Oklahoma State University lists many more, and their fact sheets are full of information on planting your own wildflower plot.

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