butterfly bush

noun

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Butterfly Bush Deadheading a butterfly bush depends on its variety. Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2025 There’s a butterfly bush that attracts butterflies, bees and hummingbirds. Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025 Finally, butterfly bush offers continuous bloom from late spring to fall as long as spent flowers are quickly removed, allowing side branches bearing plentiful flowers to take their place. Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 30 Aug. 2025 Perennial butterfly bushes and milkweed are also favorites of pollinators. Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 19 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for butterfly bush

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First Known Use

1895, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of butterfly bush was in 1895

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“Butterfly bush.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/butterfly%20bush. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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