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-   * Buddleja Davidii (Butterfly Bush)
+=====  Buddleja Davidii (Butterfly Bush) =====
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+Butterfly bush is the perfect foundation plant for a butterfly garden. The species are commonly known as Butterfly Bush due to their attractiveness to butterflies; they are also attractive to bees, moths and ladybirds.
+The species of buddleia with red flowers are also attractive to hummingbirds.
+The larger cultivars should be placed behind other shrubs and blooming annuals and perennials.
+Dark flowered varieties show up quite well against a light background.
+Plant alongside pentas (Pentas lanceolata), lantana (Lantana camara) and zinnias Zinnia elegans) for non-stop butterfly activity,
+and find a place nearby for parsley (Petroselinum crispum), passion vine (Passiflora incarnata) and other butterfly larval food plants.
+The most popular cultivated species is Buddleja davidii from central China, named after the French naturalist Père Armand David.
+Other common garden species include Buddleja globosa from southern Chile, grown for its strongly honey-scented orange globular flower-heads, and Buddleja alternifolia with lilac coloured flowers.
+Some species are commonly found as escapees from the garden. B. davidii in particular is a great coloniser of dry open ground; in towns in Britain,
+it often self-sows on waste ground, where it grows into a dense thicket, and it is listed as an invasive species in many areas.
+It is frequently seen beside railway lines, on derelict factory sites and after the Second World War on urban bomb sites.
+It is not able to survive the harsh winters of northern continental climates, being killed by temperatures below about -15°C to -20°C.
+http://www.floridata.com/ref/B/budd_dav.cfm
+http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddleia
 ===== Pissenlit officinal or Taraxacum officinale(Dandelion) =====