Lantana is a bush that attracts butterflies.

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I have two lantana bushes and they are known to attract butterflies. I took this photo of a tiger butterfly sitting on one of my lantana bushes. Lantana bushes come in several different colors. Depending upon what part of the United States you live in that lantana is either a perennial or annual. For those of you who do not know the difference between an perennial and an annual here is what my gardening book tells me. Annual- are plants that spout from seed, then flower and produce mature seeds within one years time. many annuals bloom from six weeks or more. Some shed so many sees that they come up on their own. Perennials are long-living plants that dies back to the ground in fall and returne the following spring. Here in growing area 8 the lantan is considered an perennial because it dies back to a stick and comes back in the spring. It blooms from early spring to the first frost. In some areas the lantan will bloom all year long.