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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!

BUTTERFLY PLANT
Swallowtail Family (Papilionidae)
Black Swallowtail parsley, carrot, dill, parsnip
Spicebush Swallowtail spice bush, sassafrass
Snout Butterflies (Libytheidae)
Common Snout Butterfly hackberry
Brush Footed Butterflies (Nymphalidae)
Great Spangled and Idalia Fritillaries violets
Buckeye plantains, gerardias, toadflax, snapdragons, false loosestrifes
Painted Lady thistles
Red Admiral
nettles, false nettle
Viceroy and Red-Spotted Purple
willows, especially black willow, pussy willow, poplars, plums, and cherries
Hackberry Butterfly
hackberry
Monarch Butterfly
milkweeds
Sulfurs (Pieridae)
Cloudless Sulfur
sennas, partridge pea
Dogface Butterfly
lead plant, false indigo, prairie clover
Coppers, Blues, Harvesters and Metalmarks (Lycaenidae, Riodinidae)
American Copper
sorrel
Sylvan Hairstreak
willow
Common Hairstreak
mallow family , hollyhock , rose and marsh mallows
Gray Hairstreak
hawthorn
Skippers (Hesperoidea, Hesperidae)
Blazing Star Skipper grasses

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