Hummingbird
I’m frequently asked what plants attract hummingbirds, and while I know, I have never actually made a list of them. So, here is a quick list of plants, which in addition to your hummingbird feeder, will help attract hummingbirds to your yard.
- Beardtongue (Penstemon)
- Butterfly bush (Buddleia)
- Catmint (Nepeta)
- Cigar Plant (Cuphea)
- Clove pink (Dianthus)
- Columbine (Aquilegia)
- Coral bells (Heuchera)
- Desert candle (Yucca)
- Firebush (Hamelia patens)
- Flag (Iris)
- Flame Acanthus (Aniscanthus wrightii)
- Flowering tobacco (Nicotiana alata)
- Foxglove (Digitalis)
- Jatropha (integerrima)
- Lantana (Lantana camara)
- Larkspur (Delphinium)
- Lily (Lilium)
- Lupine (Lupinus)
- Mandevilla (Mandevilla)
- Pentas (Pentas)
- Petunia (Petunia)
- Pincushion flower (Scabiosa)
- Pomegranate (Punica granatum)
- Red-hot poker (Kniphofia)
- Salvia ‘Black and Blue’ (Salvia guaranitica)
- Scarlet sage (Salvia splendens)
- Scarlet trumpet honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens)
- Soapwort (Saponaria)
- Summer phlox (Phlox paniculata)
- Trumpet vine (Campsis radicans)
- Turk’s Cap (Malvaviscus arboreus var. drummondii)
- Verbena (Aloysia Virgata)
- Weigela (Weigela)