Butterfly gardens provide habitat and food for butterflies and caterpillars.
Female butterflies lay eggs on host plants, which furnish hearty meals and homes for caterpillars.
By supplying food, water, shelter and space, the garden provides a complete habitat. Rabbits and deer feed at night on these plants. All the plants in the Congaree Swamp butterfly garden are native to this area. These plants attract butterflies to the garden without artificial feeders. Caterpillars eat sassafras and wax myrtle leaves while butterflies sip from flowering plants like spiderwort and cardinal flower.