Most of my buttonbush pictures are of tiger swallowtails, because they're the ones most attracted to it. Here's a giant swallowtail and a tiger swallowtail -
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Here's a pipevine swallowtail -
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Here's a yellow female tiger swallowtail, from the side -
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And yet another tiger, this one a male -
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And here's a male palamedes swallowtail -
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'Hope you can use one of these.
Sherry

Nice pictures. I've never seen buttonbush before.

Thank you Sherry! You're so sweet to dig those up for me. The first photo shows the blooms really well so that would be a great one to use ... or maybe I'll use more than one. I won't get a good photo if I use my own printer. I need to figure out the best way to save it on a thumb drive or send it to Walmart or something. Advice from computer geeks welcome.

I planted a row of three buttonbushes along the side of my yard this year but of course they're still too young to bloom. I'm hoping mine will do a good job attracting Tiger Swallowtails and Giants too. I have host plants for both but see very few.

Buttonbushes bring in tiger swallowtails for miles around! Even this year, a poor year for tigers, I finally saw about a dozen on the bush one day. Other days, there were fewer, but it's still the favorite nectar plant for tiger swallowtails - too bad it doesn't bloom continually, like lantana!
Sherry

I'm having a good year for Tiger Swallowtails here. I've been checking my Tulip tree for more than 10 years and had never found a single cat in all those years, and only once found an egg that never hatched. This year I've found 20 eggs and cats so far. I would've been excited to find even one. Wish my Buttonbushes would bloom for them but I don't think there's a chance this year.

I like them all, Miss Sherry, but the male Tiger is a real knockout photo!

Bob

MissSherry, is that a cultivar of buttonbush you have?

No, it's not a cultivar. I took a cutting from a roadside buttonbush growing not far from here, rooted it, and planted it on a wet site on my property. So, it's entirely local.

I've heard of a cultivar called 'Sputnik' though, that's supposed to make bigger flowers.

Sherry