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Butterfly attracting plants for your garden
plant common name butterfly scientific name Acacia melanoxylon Black wattle Imperial hairstreak Jalmerius evagoras Acacia oshanesii Irish Wattle Wattle blue Theclinesthes miskini Alectryon coriaceus Birds eye alectryon Dark pencil blue Candalides consimilis Alphitonia species White ash & red ash Small green-banded blue Psychonotis caelius Bursaria spinosa Blackthorn Fiery copper Paralucia pyrodiscus Callerya megasperma Native wisteria Narrow-banded awl (UC) Hasora khoda Canavalia rosea Coastal Jack bean Purple cerulean Jamides phasell Capparis arborea Native caper Caper gull Cepora perimale Carex species Sedge Spotted sedge skipper Hesperilla ornata Citrus australasica Native lime Dainty swallowtail Papilio anactus Citrus australis Native lime Chequered swallowtail Papilio demoleus Clausena brevistyla Clausena Orchard Swallowtail Papilo aegus Cryptocarya erythroxylon Pigeonberry ash Blue triangle Graphium sarpedon Cymbopogon refractus Barbed wire grass Evening brown Melanitis leda Daviesia species Daviesia Fringed heath-blue Neolucia agricola Dianella caerulea Flaxlily Dingy grass skipper Toxidia peron Dioscorea transversa Native yam Pied flat Tagiades japetus Ehretia acuminata Koda Hairy line-blue Erysichton lineata Elaeocarpus grandis Blue quandong Bright Cornelian Deudorix diovis Ficus opposita Sandpaper fig Purple moonbeam Philiris innotatus Flagellaria indica Supplejack Southern large darter Telicota anisodesma Gahnia aspera Sword grass Two-spotted sedge skipper Hesperilla malindeva Gahnia sieberiana Sword grass Dingy grass skipper Toxidia peron Guioa acutifolia Wild quince Large purple line-blue Nacaduba berenice Hardenbergia violacea Native sarsaparilla Common grass blue Zizina labradus Harpullia pendula Tulipwood Bright cornelian Deudorix diovis Harpullia pendula Tulipwood Short-tailed line-blue Prosotas felderi Hoya australis Common waxflower Common crow Euploea core plant common name butterfly scientific name Hygrophila angustifolia Karamat Chocolate argus Junonia hedonia Imperata cylindrica Blady grass Greenish grass dart Ocybadistes walkeri Indigofera australis Native indigo Jewelled grass-blue Freyeria putill Jagera pseudorhus Foambark Indigo flash Rapala varuna Livistona australis Cabbage tree palm Orange palm dart Cephrenes augiades Lomandra hystrix Mat rush Northern silver ochre Trapezites maheta Lomandra longifolia Mat rush Orange ochre Trapezites eliena Lomandra multiflora Mat rush Black-ringed ochre Trapezites petalia Lophostemon confertus Brush box Ornate dusk-flat Chaetocnema dentiza Melastoma malabathricum Blue tongue Coral jewel Hypochrysops miskini Mucuna gigantea Burny bean Green awl Hasora discolor Neolitsea & Litsea Bolly gums Bronze flat Netrocoryne repanda Oplismenus aemulus Creeping beard grass Lilac grass skipper Toxidia doubledayi Ottochloa gracillima Graceful grass White-banded grass-skipper Toxidia rietmanni Pararchidendron pruinosum Snow wood Tailed Emperor Polyura semipronius Pararistolochia praevenosa Birdwing butterfly Richmond Birdwing Ornithoptera richmondia Pararistolochia praevenosa Birdwing butterfly vine Clearwing swallowtail Cressida cressida Petalostigma triloculare Quinine Berry Copper Jewel Hypochrysops apelles Pimelea linifolia Rice flower Yellow-spotted blue Candalides xanthospilos Pipturus argenteus Native mulberry Yellow admiral Vanessa itea Pittosporum multiflorum Orange thorn Dull copper Paralucia pyrodiscus Plumbago zeylanica Plumbago Zebra Blue Leptotes plinius Poa labillardierei Tussock grass Banded grass-skipper Toxidia parvulus Pseuderanthemum variabilis Love flower Blue banded eggfly Hypolimnas alimena Rostellularia obtusa Pink tongue Blue argus Junonia orithya Scaevola albida Fan flower Meadow argus Junonia villida Senna acclinis Bush senna Yellow migrant Catopsilia gorgophone Smilax australis Barbed wire vine Coral jewel Hypochrysops miskini Themeda triandra Kangaroo grass White-margined grass dart Ocybadistes hypomeloma Trema aspera Poison peach Speckled line-blue Catopyrops florinda Viola betonicifolia Arrow-leaved violet Laced fritillary Argyreus hyperbius Wilkiea huegeliana Wilkiea Regent Skipper Euschemon rafflesia
Source: The Complete Field Guide to Butterflies of Australia, Braby, Michael F. , CSIRO