Common Texas Butterflies Larval Food Plants Nectar Plants Texas is home to more than Female butterflies lay their Butterflies can be attracted 400 species of butterflies. Use eggs on host plants that will to your garden by providing this guide to become familiar provide food for the larvae or suitable flowers from which Lady Bird Johnson with some of the more caterpillar. Some caterpillars they can obtain nectar. Most common species in the Lone may feed on only one or two butterflies can utilize a wide Star State and check off the larval foods. For example, variety of flowers, including ones you encounter during your Monarch caterpillars eat the those central Texas natives visit to the Butterfly Garden. leaves of milkweeds. shown below.
Reakirt's Blue Hemiargus isola Black Swallowtail Papilio polyxenes Texas Crescent Phyciodes texana Great Purple Hairstreak Pipevine Swallowtail Battus philenor Queen Danaus gilippus Butterfly-weed Asclepias tuberosa Bracted passionflower Passiflora affinis Buttonbush Cephalanthus-occidentalis Drummond's-phlox Phlox drummondii Atlides halesus
Long-tailed Skipper Urbanus proteus Gulf Fritillary A graulis vanillae Dainty Sulphur Nathalis iole Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta Hackberry Emperor Asterocampa celtis American Snout Libytheana carinenta Texas ash Fraxinus texensis Hop tree Ptelea trifoliata Purple coneflower Echinacea purpurea Black-eyed-Susan Rudbeckia-hirta
Southern Dogface Colias cesonia Two-Tailed Swallowtail Zebra Longwing Heliconius charithonia Monarch Danaus plexippus Goatweed Leafwing Anaea andria Variegated Fritillary Euptoieta Claudia American-water-willow Wild-petunia Ruellia-nudiflora Texas lantana Lantana-urticoides Woolly-ironweed Vernonia-lindheimeri Papilio multicaudata Justicia-americana 16 the Ann & O.J. Weber Butterfly Garden
Buckeye Junonia coenia Giant Swallowtail Papilio cresphontes Cloudless Sulphur Phoebis sennae Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa Common Wood-nymph Painted Lady Vanessa cardui Milkvine Matelea reticulata Cedar-elm Ulmus-crassifolia Barbara’s buttons Marshallia caespitosa Shrubby boneset Ageratina-havanensis Cercyonis pegala Photographer Credits Butterfly Guide: Bill Draker, Campbell and Lynn Loughmiller, Kathy Adams Clark, Lady Bird Johnson For more information about the Ann and O.J. Weber Butterfly Garden Joe Marcus, John and Gloria Tveten and Larry Ditto please visit our web site at www.wildflower.org Front Cover: Gulf fritillary (Agraulis vanillae) by Kathy Adams Clark