Butterfly Host Plants

American Painted Lady:

• Pearly Everlasting Anaphalis margaritacea
• Field Pussytoes Antennaria neglecta
• Plantain-leaved Pussytoes Antennaria plantaginifolia
• Showy Pussytoes Antennaria pulcherrima

Monarch:

• Swamp Milkweed Asclepias incarnata
• Dwarf Milkweed Asclepias ovalifolia
• Butterfly Milkweed Asclepias tuberosa
• Whorled Milkweed Asclepias verticillata

Baltimore Checkerspot

• White Turtlehead Chelone glabra

Harris’s Checkerspot

• Flat-topped Aster Doellingeria umbellata

Eastern Tailed Blue

• Showy Tick-trefoil Desmodium canadense

Black Swallowtail

• Rattlesnake Masters Eryngium yuccifolium
• Golden Alexanders Zizia aurea

Fritillaries

• Hooked-spur Violet Viola adunca
• Dog Violet Viola conspera
• Downy Yellow Violet Viola pubescens

Giant Swallowtail

• Hop-tree Ptelea trifoliata

Diverse Skippers and Wood Nymphs

• Native Grasses and Sedges