Butterfly Gardening G – Q: Butterflies and their food plants

- by Debra Anchors

Orange sulphur butterfly

To attract this butterfly:	Provide this food plant:
Giant swallowtail	Citrus trees
Gray hairstreak	Mallow
Great spangled flitillary	Violet
Gulf fritillary	Passionflower
Hackberry butterfly	Hackberry
Little wood satyr	Grasses, Sedges
Long-tailed skipper	Bean
Lorquin's admiral	Aspen, Willow
Meadow flitillary	Violet
Milbert's tortoiseshell	False nettle, Nettle
Monarch (Queen)	Milkweed
Mourning cloak	Aspen, Birch, Elm, Hackberry, Willow
Orange sulphur	Alfalfa, Clover, Vetch
Painted lady	Thistle
Pearl crescent	Aster
Phoebus parnassian	Stonecrop
Pipevine swallowtail	Pipevine
Purplish copper	Knotweed, Sorrel, Dock
Question mark	Elm, False nettle, Hackberry, Hops, Nettle

Enjoy this video of the Orange sulphur butterfly

Butterflies and their food plants A – F

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