Edinburg World Birding Center Butterfly Garden List

Common Name Scientific Name Larval Food Plant Sugar Hackberry (Palo Blanco) Celtis laevigata Mourning Cloak Pale Emperor Western Hackberry Butterfly Cedar Elm (Olmo) Ulmus crassifolia Mourning Cloak Question Mark Ebony (Ebano) Pithecellobium flexicaule Cassius Blue Coyote Cloudywing Skipper Black Willow (Sauz) Salix nigra Mourning Cloak Lime Prickly Ash (Colima) Zanthoxylum fagara Giant Swalllowtail Sickle-winged Skipper Brazilian Bluewood (Brasil) Condalia hookeri Amiercan Snout Leadtree (Tepeguaje) Leucaena pulverulenta Clytie Ministreak Gray Ministreak Retama Parkinsonia aculeata Clench’s Greenstreak Texas Torchwood (Chapotillo) Amyris texana Giant Swallowtail Mexican Torchwood (Sierra Madre) Amyris madrensis Giant Swallowtail Purple Sage (Cenizo) Leucophyllum frutescens Theona checkerspot Soapbush (Guayacan) Guaiacum angustifolium Lyside Sulphur Barbados Cherry (Mazanita) Malpighia glabra Cassius Blue Spiny Hackberry (Granjeno) Celtis pallida American Snout Red-bordered Metalmark Emperors Yucca Yucca sp. Yucca Giant Skipper Potato Tree (Salvadora) Solanum erianthum Creamy Stripe Streak Nightshades Solanum sp. Creamy Stripe Streak Coral Bean (Colorin) Erythrina herbacea Frosted Flahser Turk’s Cap (Manzanita) Malvaviscus drummondii Glassy-winged Skipper Mexican Oregano (Hierba Dulce) Lippia gravelens White Peacock Lantana Scrub Hairstreak

Common Name Scientific Name Larval Food Plant Lantana Lantana sp. Painted Lady Lantana Scrub Hairstreak Tropical Greenstreak Texas Frog Fruit (Hierba Buena Phyla strigillosa Phaon Crescentspot Montes) Buckeye Lantana Scrub Hairstreak White Peacock Baby Bonnet Coursetia axillaris Southern Dogface Texas Stonecrop Sedum texanum Xami Hairstreak Heart-leaf Hibiscus (Tulipan del Hibiscus martianus Mallow Scrub Hairstreak Monte) Yojoa Scrub Hairstreak Manfreda (Huaco) Manfreda variegata Manfreda Giant Skipper Sea Purslane (Chisme) Sesuvium sessile Western Pygmy-Blue Pigeon Berry (Coralito) Rivina humilis Goodson’s Greenstreak Blue Mistflower (Crucita) odorata Rounded Metalmark Rawson’s Metalmark Betony-leaf Mistflower betonicifolium Rounded Metalmark Shrubby Blue Sage (Mejorana) Salvia ballotiflora Coma Saffron Plum (La Coma) Sideroxylon celastrinum Awnless Bush Sunflower Simsia calva Mountain Laurel (Frijolito) Sophora secundiflora Blue azurea Montezuma Cypress (Ahuehuete) Taxodium macronatum Mexican Trixis (Hierba del Aire) Trixis inula Climbing Hempvine scandens Tropical Greenstreak Pink Primrose Oenothera speciosa False Ragweed Parthenium hysterophorus Ironweed Palafoxia texana ambigua Plumbago Plumbago scandens Marine Blue Cassius Blue Tropical Sage Salvia coccinea Seaside Goldenrod Solidago semervirens Silver Leaf Nighshade Solanum elaeagnifolium Common Name Scientific Name Larval Food Plant Pinkmint Stachys drummondi Spiderwort Tradescantia micrantha Cowpen Daisy Verbesian encelioides Mourning Cloak Question Mark Skeleton Bush Viguiera stenoloba Brush Holly (Coronilla) Xylosma flexuosa Spanish Dagger (Palma Pita) Yucca treculeana Water Hyssop Bacopa monnieri Old Man’s Beard (Barbas de Chivo) Clematis drummondi

Day Commelina erecta Climbing Milkweed Vine Cynanchum barbigerum Sixangle Foldwing Dicliptera vahliana Seaside Heliotrope Heliotropium curassavicum

Texas Sunflower Helianthus praecox Bordered Patch Camphor Weed Heterotheca subaxillaris Horsemint (Monarda) Monarda citriodora Texas Prickly Pear Opuntia engelmannii