Swallowtail Butterfly and Duranta My Favorite Butterfly Bush:  Duranta http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duranta Duranta From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Duranta  is a genus of  flowering plants  in the  verbena  family,  Verbenaceae . [1]  It contains 17 species  of shrubs and small trees that are native from southern  Florida  to  Mexico  and  South America .