Butterfly Host Plants

American Painted Lady    

Borage, Burdock, Everlasting, Hollyhocks, Knapweed, Mallow, Sunflower, Wormwood

 

Baltimore Checkerspot

Plantain, Turtlehead

 

Banded Hairstreak    

Hickory, Oak, Walnut

 

Black Swallowtail

Carrot, Dill, Fennel, Parsley, Queen Anne's Lace, Rue

 

Cabbage White

Broccoli, Cabbage family, Mustard, Nasturtium

 

Checkered White

Mustard family

 

Clouded Sulphur

Alfalfa, Clover

 

Cloudless Sulphur

Senna

 

Common Buckeye

Heliotrope, Monkeyflower, Plantain, Sedum, Snapdragon, Verbena

 

Common Checkered Skipper

Hollyhock, hibiscus, mallow

 

Dainty Sulphur

Spanish Needles, Sneezeweed

 

Dogface

False Indigo, Indigo Bush, Prairie Clover

 

Eastern Comma

Elm, Hop Vine, Nettle

 

Eastern Tailed Blue

Clover, Pea Family, Vetch

 

Fritillaries

Violets

 

Tiger Swallowtail

Aspens, Sycamore, Tulip Tree, Wild Black Cherry, Willow, Yellow Poplar

 

Falcate Orangetip

Mustard,Rock Cress

 

Fiery Skipper

Grasses

 

Giant Swallowtail

Citrus Tree, Hop, Prickly Ash, Rue

 

Fritillaries

Violets

 

Gray Hairstreak

Clover, Hibiscus, Hollyhock, Mallows, Rose of Sharon

 

Gulf Fritillary

Passionflower Vine, Pentas

 

Hackberry Emperor

Hackberry Tree

 

Least Skipper

Grasses

 

Little Wood Satyr

Grasses

 

Little Yellow

Cassia, Clover, Senna, Legumes

 

Long-Tailed Skipper

Beans, Legumes

 

Milbert's Tortoiseshell

Nettle

 

Monarch

Milkweed

 

Mourning Cloak

Aspen, Birch, Cottonwood Ash, Elm, Hackberry, Poplar, Wild Rose, Willow

 

Northern Cloudywing

Legumes

 

Orange Sulphur

Alfalfa, Clover, Vetch

 

Pearl Crescent

Aster

 

Peck's Skipper

Grasses

 

Pipevine Swallowtail

Dutchman's Pipe, Pipevine

 

Purplish Copper

Dock, Knotweed

 

Queen

Milkweed Family

 

Question Mark

Basswood,Elm,Hackberry, Hops, Nettle

 

Red Admiral

Nettle

 

Red-spotted Purple

Apple, Aspen, Hawthorn, Poplar, Wild Cherry, Willow

 

Sara Orange Tip

Mustard family

 

Silvery Blue

Legumes, Lupine

 

Silvery Checkerspot

Aster, Sunflowers

 

Silver-spotted Skipper

Black Locust Tree, Tick-Trefoils, Wisteria

 

Sleepy Orange

Cassia, Clover, Sennas

 

Southern Dogface

Indigo Bush, Prairie Clover

 

Spicebush Swallowtail

Sassafras, Spicebush

 

Spring/Summer Azure

Apple, Blueberry, Dogwood, Spirea, Viburnum, Wild cherry

 

Tawny Emperor

Hackberry

 

Variegated Fritillary

Passion Vine, Violets

 

Viceroy

Aspen, Cottonwood, Cherry, Poplar, Willow

 

West Coast Lady

Mallow, Nettles

 

Western Tiger Swallowtail

Alder, Ash, Aspen, Poplar, Willow

 

White Admiral

Aspen, Birch, Honeysuckle, Poplar, Willow

 

Wild Indigo Duskywing

Crown Vetch, Wild indigo

 

Zebra Longwing

Passionflower

 

Zebra Swallowtail

Pawpaw Tree