Larval Host Plants (by butterfly species)
This list is by no means exhaustive. If you have any suggestions, additions, deletions or corrections please let us know!
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BUTTERFLY |
PLANT |
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Swallowtail Family (Papilionidae) |
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Black Swallowtail |
dill, fennel, parsley, carrot, rue, parsnip |
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Giant Swallowtail |
rue, wafer ash, prickly ash |
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Pipevine Swallowtail |
pipevine |
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Spicebush Swallowtail |
spice bush, sassafrass |
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Tiger Swallowtail |
magnolia, tulip tree, wafer ash, black cherry |
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Zebra Swallowtail |
pawpaw |
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Snout Butterflies (Libytheidae) |
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Common Snout Butterfly |
hackberry |
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Brush Footed Butterflies (Nymphalidae) |
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Great Spangled and Idalia Fritillaries |
violets |
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Buckeye |
plantains, gerardias, toadflax, snapdragons, false loosestrifes |
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Painted Lady |
thistles |
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Red Admiral |
nettles, false nettle |
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Viceroy and Red-Spotted Purple |
willows, especially black willow, pussy willow, poplars, plums, and cherries |
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Hackberry Butterfly |
hackberry |
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Monarch Butterfly |
milkweeds |
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Sulfurs (Pieridae) |
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Cloudless Sulfur |
sennas, partridge pea |
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Dogface Butterfly |
lead plant, false indigo, prairie clover |
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Coppers, Blues, Harvesters and Metalmarks (Lycaenidae, Riodinidae) |
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American Copper |
sorrel |
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Sylvan Hairstreak |
willow |
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Common Hairstreak |
mallow family , hollyhock , rose and marsh mallows |
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Gray Hairstreak |
hawthorn |
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Skippers (Hesperoidea, Hesperidae) |
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Blazing Star Skipper |
grasses |