Central Missouri All native flowers are good food Native Host Plants for source for native pollinators like Information summarized from Butterflies bees and butterflies; they have evolved with one another. Fall Allen, T.J., Brock, J. P., & Glassberg, J.: 2005. Caterpillars in the field and garden: a field guide blooming natives are especially to the butterfly caterpillars of North America. important in nourishing the Oxford University Press, Inc., New York, NY. migrating insects and preparing Richard, J. & Heitzman, J. E.: 1996. Butterflies and moths of Missouri. Conservation Commission of the adults and caterpillars for the State of Missouri, Jefferson City, MO. winter.
The best plan for a pollinator garden is to plant a diversity of native plants; perhaps 30 different native species grown from a local seed source.
Tiger Swallowtail, black form (Pterourus glasucus Find a local distributor in the glaucus) on Prairie Blazing Star (Liatris pycnostachia) Grow Native Resource guide at www.grownative.org Ask a member or learn more by Hawthorn Chapter of the joining the local Hawthorn Missouri Native Chapter Missouri Native Plant Plant Society Society at www.columbianativeplants.org Monarch (Danaus plexippus) on New Compiled by Janice Albers England Aster (Aster novae-angliae) Pictures by Becky Erickson
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Host Plant Caterpillar Host Plant Caterpillar (Genera) (Family) (Genera) (Family) Aster (Asteraceae) Checkerspot, Pearl Golden Alexanders Woodland Crescent (Zizia) Swallowtail (Nymphalidae) (Papilionoidea) Butterfly, Common, Monarch (Danaidae) Purple Milkweed Monarch Spider, Tall Green, (Asclepias) (Danaidae) Whorled Milkweeds Monkey Flower Common Buckeye (Asclepias) (Mimulus) (Nymphalidae) White or Cream Duskywing Great Spangled Fritillary (Speyeria cybele) on Pipevine Pipevine Purple Milkweed (Asclepias purpurascens) Indigo (Baptisia) (Hesperioidea) (Aristolochia) Swallowtail and Host Plant Caterpillar (Papilionoidea) New Jersey Tea (Genera) (Family) Pussy Toes American Painted (Ceanothus) (Antennaria) Lady Swamp Milkweed Monarch (Danaidae) (Nymphalidae) Leadplant Dogface (Pieridae) (Asclepias) Spicebush (Lindera) Spicebush (Amorpha) Turtlehead Checkerspot Swallowtail Passion Vine Fritillary (Chelone) (Nymphalidae) (Papilionoidea) (Passiflora) (Nymphalidae) Sunflowers Sulphur (Pieridae), Violet (Viola) Fritillary Partridge Pea Sulphur (Pieridae) (Helianthus) Checkerspot (Nymphalidae) (Cassia) (Nymphalidae) Aromatic Sumac Red-Banded Sunflowers Sulphur (Pieridae), sedges Skippers (Rhus) Hairstreak (Helianthus) Checkerspot (Hesperioidea) (Lycaenidae) (Nymphalidae) Grasses Skippers (Hesperioidea), Satyr (Satyridae), Wood-Nymph (Satyridae), Glassywing (Hesperioidea), Pearly-Eye (Satyridae), Broken- Checkered Skipper (Pyrgus Dash (Hesperioidea) Gorgone Checkerspot communis) on Aster sp. Sulphur (Phoebis sp.) on Pale Purple Coneflower (Echinacea pallida) (Charidryas gorgone)