20 Flowers That Attract Hummingbirds

Hummingbirds are attracted to bright colored flowers, especially red and orange. The hummingbird’s primary diet is flower nectar. They can hover like bees in front of tubular or trumpet-shaped blossoms, probing with their long needle-like beaks to extract nectar.

Hummingbirds are very territorial, so plant several patches of their favorite flowers if you want to attract more than one. Also, keep a source of very shallow water available to give hummingbirds a place to drink. Hummingbirds also eat small insects and spiders.

Hummingbirds feeders will attract hummingbirds to the garden. Fill a feeder with sugar syrup (1/4 cup of sugar dissolved in 1 cup of water; do not add food coloring). Either boil the water briefly or leave it overnight to allow chlorine to evaporate.

20 Flowers That Attract Hummingbirds

Common Name	Botanical Name	Zones
Bee balm	Monarda didyma	4-8
Butterfly bush	Buddleia spp.	5-10
Canna	Canna hybrids	2-11
Cardinal flower	Lobelia spp.	2-9
Cross-vine	Bignonia capreolata	6-9
Dahlia	Dahlia	2-11
Fuchsia	Fuchsia spp.	2-11
Geranium	Pelargonium spp.	2-11
Gladiolus	Gladiolus hybrids	2-11

Common Name	Botanical Name	Zones
Hollyhock	Alcea rosea	2-11
Honeysuckle, various	Lonicera spp.	3-9
Lantana	Lantana camara	2-11
Larkspur	Consolida ambigua	2-11
Morning glory	Ipomea spp.	2-11
Penstemon	Penstemon spp.	3-7
Phlox, annual	Phlox drummondii	2-11
Petunia	Petunia spp.	2-11
Quince, flowering	Chaenomeles speciosa	4-9

Common Name	Botanical Name	Zones
Rose of Sharon	Hibiscus syriacus	5-9
Salvia, red annual	Salvia splendens	2-11
Snapdragon	Antirrhinum majus	2-11
Tobacco, flowering	Nicotiana spp.	2-11
Trumpet creeper	Campsis radicans	3-11
Weigela	Weigela florida	4-9

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