Hi Eats_Beats_Trees! I'm not sure about the shrimp plant, but here is a list of milkweed native to Florida: Milkweed Native to Florida. I hope this helps!

Have a nice weekend,

damask_rose_5 : )

Shrimp plant isn’t native. The orange one is naturalized, justicia brandegeeana. North Florida you can grow echinacea, but it sulks one central FL. Number one wildflower is Bidens alba but it’s very weedy. Red salvia (salvia cocinnea) blooms most months. Passiflora suberosa is a host for Zebra Longwings and Gulf Fritillary. Other than that, I’d need to know your type of growing conditions and zone. It’s best to grow what would occur there naturally. I’d recommend Florida Native Plant Society, Florida Native Gardening on Facebook and author Craig Huegel’s blog here http://hawthornhillwildflowers.blogspot.com/?m=1 

Thanks for your reply Patty.

I live in 10b Miami.

I already have the suberosa. Hoping it brings some butterflies.

I’ll look into the other plants you mentioned and check our that website ! Thanks again.

btw any idea what kind of bug this is on my wild coffee?

In your photo, those are lacewing eggs. They are a great predator to have in the garden, and they eat eggs, larvae and soft-bodied insects like aphids, whitefly, spider mites and thrips.

Scorpion's Tail is a native that grows really well in Florida (I'm in Orland) and has cute little white flowers shaped like a scorpion's tail. It's a perennial, and I give it a medium to hard prune a couple of times a year, and it grows back nice and lush. It's a prolific seeder, but I try keep it contained in a couple of beds. It always has a lot of pollinators including multiple species of native bees, honeybees and butterflies. Native Blanket Flower and Coreopsis are two others that do well with little care and will re-seed. Here's a link to the Florida Wildflowers organization with Scorpion's Tail info, but they will have lots of good info about other native plants for pollinators. Think about planting a mix of nectar plants AND host plants which butterfly larvae/caterpillars will feed on prior to their metamorphosis. https://flawildflowers.org/flower-friday-heliotropium-angiospermum/#:~:text=Scorpionstail%20is%20a%20perennial%20shrub%20-like%20plant%20with,hammocks%20and%20strands%2C%20and%20ruderal%20or%20disturbed%20areas.