Butterfly Host

Rhus typhina (staghorn sumac) – Spring Azure, Summer Azure Ruellia humilius (wild petunia) – Common Buckeye Salix discolor (American willow) – Acadian Hairstreak, Dreamy Duskywing, Mourning Cloak, Red Spotted Purple, Viceroy Schizachyrium scoparium (little bluestem) – Crossline Solidago caesia (blue-stem goldenrod) – Baltimore Checkerspot Solidaga rugosa (rough-stemmed goldenrod) – Baltimore Checkerspot Vaccinium spp. (blueberry) – Spring Azure Arlene and arkansana (Ozark ironweed) – American Painted Lady, Painted Lady Arthur S. Holden Jr. Vernonia fasticulata (smooth ironweed) – American Painted Lady, Painted Lady Butterfly Garden Vernonia gigantea (ironweed) – American Painted Lady, Painted Lady Vernonia noveboracensis (New York ironweed) – American Painted Lady, Painted Lady Viburnum carlesii (Korean spice viburnum) – Host List Spring Azure Viola pedata (birdfoot violet) – Great Spangled Frittilary, Use this list and associated plant labels in Meadow Frittilary the garden to locate butterfly host plants. Plant labels that correspond to the host list References Brock, Jim P. and Kenn Kaufman. 2003. of will be marked with a caterpillar. North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, N.Y. Daniels, Jaret C. 2004. Butterflies of Ohio. Adventure Publications, Inc. Cambridge, M.N. Parshall, Dave and Jim Davidson. 2009. Butterflies and Skippers of Ohio. Division of Wildlife. Wagner, David L. 2005. Caterpillars of Eastern North America. Princeton University Press. Princeton, N.J.

These reference materials can be found at the Warren H. Corning Library Butterfly Host Plants

Acer saccharum (sugar maple) – Cimicifuga racemosa (black cohosh) – Spring Azure Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, Mourning Cloak Cornus amomum (silky dogwood) – Spring Azure Andropogon gerardii ( big bluestem) – Cornus kousa (kousa dogwood) – Spring Azure Common Wood Nymph Cornus mas (cornelian cherry) – Spring Azure Andropogon virginicus (broomsedge bluestem) – Common Wood Nymph Digitalis grandiflora (yellow foxglove) – Common Buckeye Aquilegia canadensis ( wild columbine) – Spring Azure Eragrostis spectabilis (purple love grass) – Asclepias incarnata (swamp milkweed) – Monarch Asclepias sullivantii (prairie milkweed) – Monarch Aster divaricata (white wood aster) – Monarch, Monarch Chrysalis Asclepias syriaca (common milkweed) – Monarch Pearl Crescent PHOTOS BY NATE BECCUE Butterflies lay their eggs on plants. Asclepias tuberosa ( butterfly weed) – Monarch Foeniculum vulgare (sweet fennel) – Black Swallowtail These plants are called host plants. Asimina triloba (paw paw) – Zebra Swallowtail Helianthus microcephalus (small wood sunflower) – When the caterpillar hatches from Aster laevis (smooth aster) – Pearl Crescent American Painted Lady, Painted Lady, Spring Azure its egg it will feed on its host plant. Aster lateriflorum (calico aster) – Pearl Crescent Hibiscus moscheutos (rose mallow) – Gray Hairstreak Some butterflies use only one kind Hystrix patula (bottle brush grass) – Northern Pearly Eye of plant as a host whereas others use Aster novae-angliae (New England aster) – Pearl Crescent Ilex verticillata (winterberry) – Harvester (), several to many different species. Aster oblongifolius (aromatic aster) – Pearl Crescent Spring Azure Adult butterflies feed on Baptisia minor (lesser wild indigo) – Orange Sulphur Lindera benzoin (spicebush) – Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, and are not as specific about Spicebush Swallowtail nectar plants as they are host plants. Baptisia sphaerocarpa (yellow wild indigo) – Orange Sulphur Lonicera sempervirens (trumpet honeysuckle) – Butterflies are attracted to solid Baltimore Checkerspot, Spring Azure masses of color, flower fragrance, and Baptisia tinctoria (yellow false indigo) – Orange Sulphur, flower shape. Silver Spotted Skipper, Wild Indigo Duskywing Lupinus perennis (wild lupine) – Eastern Tailed Blue, Wild Indigo Duskywing Betula nigra (river birch) – Copton Tortoiseshell, Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, Mourning Cloak, Red Spotted Purple Malva moschata (musk mallow) – Gray Hairstreak Carex muskingumensis (palm sedge) – Dun Skipper, (panic grass) – Hobomok Skipper, Eyed Brown Indian Skipper, Least Skipper, Northern Broken Dash, Tawny-edged Skipper Ceanothus americanus (New Jersey tea) – Spring Azure, Summer Azure Pinus strobus (white pine) – Gray Hairstreak Celtis occidentalis (common hackberry) – Mourning Prunus x yedoensis ( Yoshino cherry) – Coral Hairstreak, Cloak, Question Mark Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, Painted Lady, Red Spotted Purple, Spring Azure Chasmanthium latifolium (sea oats) – Common Roadside Skipper, Northern Pearly Eye Quercus muehlenbergii (chinkapin oak) – Banded Hairstreak, Gray Hairstreak, Horace’s Duskywing Chelone glabra (white turtlehead) – Newly Emerged Monarch Baltimore Checkerspot Quercus shumardii (shumard oak) – Banded Hairstreak, Horace’s Duskywing ALL PHOTOS BY BRIAN PARSONS Chelone lyonii (pink turtlehead) – Baltimore Checkerspot