The Butterfly Garden is part of the garden at the Lake Louisa State Park Ranger Station off Hwy. 27.  The Butterfly Garden showcases native plants: species understood as indigenous, occurring in natural associations in habitats that existed prior to significant human impact and alterations of the landscape.  Florida native plants have adapted to Florida’s soil and weather and have natural resistance to many pests, so they require less water, fertilizer, and pesticides, thus benefiting our threatened environment.

Butterfly Garden

As shelter and food for birds, butterflies and other wildlife, native plants also support diverse ecosystems.  The Butterfly Garden includes plants which attract and increase the populations of butterflies and other pollinators by containing both nectar plants (food for adult butterflies) and host plants (plants on which butterflies lay eggs and which are food sources for emerging caterpillars).

Butterfly Garden