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Central Coast California native plants generally available in nursery trade, from specialty native plant nurseries or plant sales, that provide nectar for a number of specific butterfly and Moth species. Complied from many sources Jeffrey A. Caldwell, supplemented and edited for local Monterey County Species by Pat Regan Healthy plants under good moisture conditions produce more nectar. Usually plants in sheltered, sunny locations get more attention. The minimum patch size in flower for one species to be likely to be "found" and used is roughly 25 square feet. Maximum interest is generated when eight or more attractive species in significant patches are in flower simultaneously. For butterfly gardens, bigger is better! Instead of flower nectar, many butterflies are attracted to rotting fruit. A few are attracted to tree sap, as from the wounds made by a sapsucker to living trees. Fresh dung and mud are other items of sustenance of importance to many butterflies. Achillea millefolium. White Yarrow. Edith's Checkerspot, California Propertius Duskywing, Mournful Duskywing, Tortoiseshell, West Coast Lady, Painted Common Ringlet, West Coast Lady, Painted Lady, Common Buckeye, Satyr Anglewing, Lady, Common Checkerspot, American Calippe Fritillary, Crown Fritillary, Monarch, Painted Lady, Purplish Copper, Gray Common Ringlet, Cabbage White, Orange Hairstreak, Marine Blue, Eastern Tailed Sulphur, Large Marble, Great Copper, Blue, Anise Swallowtail, Cabbage White, Acmon Blue, Thicket Hairstreak, Gold- Orange Sulphur, Western Brown Elfin, Fiery Hunter's Hairstreak, Hedgerow Hairstreak, Skipper, Umber Skipper. Dryope Hairstreak, Great Purple Hairstreak, California Hairstreak, the Farmer, Umber Achillea millefolium 'Island Pink' Skipper, Mournful Duskywing, Propertius photographs document its popularity with Duskywing, Silver-spotted Skipper, Northern butterflies. Cloudy-wing, Farmer (principal nectar Adenostoma fasciculatum. Chamise. source). Greenish Blue. Agastache urticifolia. Nettleleaf Giant Hyssop. Aesculus californica. California Buckeye. 'One of the best' for butterflies' (B. Wilson); Western Tiger Swallowtail (pollinator), Anise Swallowtail, Pipevine Swallowtail, Pale Monarch. Western Tiger Swallowtail. Swallowtail, Two-tailed Swallowtail, Allium spp. Wild Onions. Common Checkerspot (a favored source!), Edith's Checkerspot, Propertius Dusky-wing Tailed Copper, Gorgon Copper, Spring Azure, California Sister, Mourning Cloak, Lorquin's Admiral, Northern Checkerspot, 1 UC Master Gardeners Monterey Bay Smart Gardening Fair 2017 American Painted Lady, Great Purple Amorpha californica. (California False Hairstreak & Great Copper. Indigo). California Dogface. Armeria maritima. Seathrift. Anaphalis margaritacea. Pearly Skippers, Blues, Green Hairstreak. Everlasting. Anise Swallowtail, Mylitta Crescent, Aralia californica. Elk Clover. Woodland Skipper, American Painted Lady. Drew 'droves of hungry butterflies' according to Bay Natives. Aquilegia formosa. Western Columbine. Pale Swallowtail, Anise Swallowtail, Silvery Arctostaphylos spp. Manzanitas. Blue, Acmon Blue, Common Ringlet, California Tortoiseshell. Monarch. Many Common Wood Nymph. moths. Apocynum spp. Dogbanes. Asclepias spp. Milkweeds. Boisduval's Marble, Western Sulphur, Great Monarch, Clodius Parnassian, Western Copper, Gorgon Copper, California Tiger Swallowtail, Pipevine Swallowtail, Red Hairstreak, Sylvan Hairstreak, Thicket Admiral, Orange Sulphur, Acmon Blue, Hairstreak, Johnson's Hairstreak, Gray American Painted Lady, Common Buckeye, Hairstreak, Field Crescent, Northern Boisduval's Blue, Gray Hairstreak, Spring Checkerspot, Common Checkerspot, Azure, Silver-spotted Skipper, Cabbage Lorquin's Admiral, Ox-eye Satyr, Woodland White, Checkered White, Western Sulphur, Satyr, Silver-spotted Skipper, Northern Great Purple Hairstreak, Sylvan Hairstreak, Cloudy-wing, Propertius Dusky-wing, Thicket Hairstreak, Johnson's Hairstrea, Mournful Dusky-wing, Dodge's Skipper, Field Crescent, Northern Checkerspot, Columbia Skipper, Farmer Common Checkersot, Lorquin's Admiral, Woodland Satyr, Mournful Dusky-wing, Apocynum androsaemifolium. Spreading Dodge's Skipper, Columbia Skipper Dogbane. Fritillaries, West Coast Lady, Clodius Asclepias cordifolia. Heartleaf Milkweed. Parnassian, Dun Skipper, Sylvan Clark's Sphinx, Monarch, many butterflies Hairstreak, Hedgerow Hairstreak, Lorquin's Asclepias fascicularis. Narrowleaf Admiral, Gray Hairstreak, Common Milkweed. Buckeye, Checkered White, Pacuvius 'Super' for butterflies, at least 10 species. Dusky-wing, Persius Dusky-wing ('addicted' Western Tiger Swallowtail, American (Shapiro) to this nectar!). Painted Lady, Acmon Blue, Gray Hairstreak, Apocynum cannabinum. Indian Hemp. Mourning Cloak, Queen, Monarch, Least Western Tiger Swallowtail, Fritillaries, West Checkered Skipper; excellent nectar source Coast Lady; Clodius Parnassian, Dun for Mt. Diablo butterflies. Twelve species Skipper, Sachem, Silver-spotted Skipper, were collected on one large patch; also Sylvan Hairstreak, Hedgerow Hairstreak, attract nocturnal moths. Lorquin's Admiral, Red Admiral, Gray Asclepias speciosa. Showy Milkweed. Hairstreak, Common Buckeye, Spring Western Tiger Swallowtail, Gray Hairstreak, Azure, Eastern Tailed Blue, Monarch, Spring Azure, Red Admiral, Painted Lady Cabbage White, Orange Sulphur; favorite of 2 UC Master Gardeners Monterey Bay Smart Gardening Fair 2017 Asteraceae. Dodge's Skipper, Lindsey's Bloomeria crocea. Common Goldenstar. Skipper 'Great' for butterflies. Aster sp. Castilleja exserta. Purple Owl's Clover. Clodius Parnassian, West Coast Lady, Quino Checkerspot Painted Lady, Common Checkerspot, Gray Hairstreak, Cabbage White, Checkered Ceanothus spp. and vars. Wild Lilac. White, Buckeye, Skippers, Coppers, Anise especially white-flowered forms. Swallowtail, Orange Sulphur, Purplish 'butterflies', Common Buckeye, Gray Copper, Crown Fritillary, Lorquin's Admiral, Hairstreak, Thicket Hairstreak, Johnson's California Ringlet, Columbia Skipper, Hairstreak, Spring Azure, Western Meadow Sandhill Skipper Fritillary. Aster chilensis. Common California Aster. 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  • Native Plants

    Native Plants

    Spring 2018 This issue of Shore Stewards News focuses on the many benefits of native plants. The newsletter content is from garden writer and retired WSU Extension Educator Peg Tillery, and provided by Renee Johnson. Renee is the Shore Stewards Coordinator for Kitsap County. Island County content is provided by Ann Precup and Scott Chase. Native Plants at Work in Your Landscape Native plants are ideal for home gardens: at the same time they provide diversity to a landscape, they can also create a habitat for wildlife. Native plants are mostly disease and pest free and usually survive very happily in our relatively wet winters and springs with drought-like summer months from mid-July through mid-October most years. Native plants rarely, if ever, need fertilizer. In our region where fungi and molds happen naturally, native plants can have diseases and conditions, but they usually don’t succumb to these problems. The various fungi and phytophthoras that attack our madrones are an example. Newly planted natives also need regular watering their first two to three years until they’re established in a landscape. Tall Oregon Grape Mahonia aquafolium Photo Credit: http://www.nwplants.com / CC BY-SA 3.0 A few of the native favorites include: Oceanspray (Holodiscus discolor); Salal (Gaultheria shallon); Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii); Pacific Madrone (Arbutus menziesii); Pacific dogwood (Cornus nuttallii); Mock orange (Philadelphus lewisii); Pacific Ninebark (Physocarpus capitatus); twinflower (Linnaea borealis); Mahonia (Oregon Grape); Trillium; Red Huckleberry (Vaccinium parvifolium); Evergreen Huckleberry (Vaccinium ovatum); Red Elderberry (Sambucus racemosa); Salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis); Vine Maple (Acer circinatum); Sword fern (Polystichum munitum), Bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum), Lady fern (Athyrium filix-femina) and Red-Flowering Currant (Ribes sanguineum).