Butterfly Larval And Nectar Plants



Larval Plants
Trees
Aspen, Cottonwood - White Admiral, Red-spotted Purple, Western Admiral, Lorquin's Admiral, Viceroy
Birch - Mourning Cloak, White Admiral
Cherry - Red-Spotted Purple, Tiger Swallowtail, Spring Azure
Dogwood - Spring Azure
Elm - Comma, Question Mark, Mourning Cloak
Hackberry - Question Mark, Comma, Hackberry Butterfly, Tawny Emperor, Snout Butterfly
Locust - Silver-Spotted Skipper
Oak - Sister, Banded Hairstreak
Pawpaw - Zebra Swallowtail
Tulip Poplar - Tiger Swallowtail
Willow - Western Tiger Swallowtail, Western Admiral, Lorquin's Admiral, Viceroy, Mourning Cloak



Shrubs
Blueberry - Brown Elfin
Cherry - Red-Spotted Purple, Tiger Swallowtail, Spring Azure
Dogwood - Spring Azure
False Indigo - Dog Face, Silver-spotted Skipper
Locust - Silver-spotted Skipper
Spicebush, Sassafras - Spicebush Swallowtail, Tiger Swallowtail
Spirea - Spring Azure
Willow - Western Tiger Swallowtail, Western Admiral, Lorquin's Admiral, Viceroy, Mourning Cloak



Flowers
Alfalfa - Clouded Sulphur, Alfalfa Sulphur, Eastern Tailed Blue
Aster - Pearl Crescent
Clover - Clouded Sulphur, Alfalfa Sulphur, Eastern Tailed Blue
Everlasting - American Painted Lady
False Nettle - Red Admiral, Question Mark, Comma, Milbert's Tortoiseshell
Hops - Question Mark, Comma
Knotweed - Purplish Copper
Lupine - Silvery Blue, Other Blues
Mallow - West Coast Lady, Gray Hairstreak
Marigold - Dainty Sulphur
Milk Vetch - Western Tailed Blue, Other Blues
Milkweed - Monarch, Queen
Nettle - Red Admiral, Question Mark, Comma, Milbert's Tortoiseshell
Passionflower - Gulf Fritillary, Zebra
Pipevine - Pipevine Swallowtail
Plantain - Buckeye, Baltimore
Queen Anne's Lace - Black Swallowtail, Anise Swallowtail
Senna - Cloudless Sulphur
Snapdragon - Buckeye
Sneezeweed - Dainty Sulphur
Sorrel, Dock - American Copper, Purplish Copper
Stonecrop, Sedum - Phoebus parnassian
Sweet Fennel - Anise Swallowtail, Black Swallowtail
Thistle - Painted Lady
Turtlehead - Baltimore
Vetch - Alfalfa Sulphur, Eastern Tailed Blue, Western Tailed Blue, Other Blues
Violet - Great Spangled Fritillary, Meadow Fritillary, Other Fritillaries
Water Cress - Sara Orange Tip, Falcate Orange Tip, Cabbage White



Vegetables And Other Plants
Bean - Long-tailed Skipper
Cabbage, Broccoli - Cabbage White, Checkered White
Parsley - Black Swallowtail, Anise Swallowtail
Grasses, Sedges - Common Wood Nymph, Little Wood Styr, Eyed Brown, Ringlet, Fiery Skipper



Nectar Plants
- Aster (Aster spp.)
- Black-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)
- Blazing Stars (Liatris spp.)
- Butterfly Milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa)
- Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis)
- Butterfly Bush (Buddleia spp.)
- Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis)
- Chaste Tree (Vitex agnus-castus)
- Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)
- Coneflowers (Echinacea purpurea)
- Coreopsis (Coreopsis spp.)
- Cosmos (Cosmos spp.)
- Dianthus Family (Dianthus spp.)
- Flowering Dogwood (Cornus)
- Lantana (Lantana camara)
- Marigold (Tagetes spp.)
- Mexican Sunflowers (Tithonia rotundifolia)
- Passion Flowers (Passiflora spp.)
- Petunia (Petunia x hybrida)
- Salvia (Salvia spp.)
- Shasta Daisy (Leucanthemum spp.)
- Sunflower (Helianthus spp.)
- Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata)
- Swamp Verbena (Verbena hastata)
- Tall Verbena (Verbena bonariensis)
- Thistle (Cirsium discolor)
- Violet (Viola spp. )
- Woodland Stonecrop (Sedum ternatum)
- Yarrow (Achillea spp.)
- Zinnia (Zinnia elegans)