Texas Butterfly Gardens

Butterflies and Larva

Plants (food source)

Acmon Blue

buckwheats, lupines & milkvetch

American Painted Lady

cudweeds, everlasts, antennarias

Anise Swallowtail

anise, fennel, angelica, parsnip, mountain parsley

Baltimore Checkerspot

turtlehead, hairy beardtongue, English plantain

Banded Hairstreak

oats, hickory, walnuts

Baird's Swallowtail

dragon sagebrush

Black Swallowtail

parsley, dill, fennel, Queen Ann's lace, common rue

Buckeye

ruellia, snapdragon, plantain, verbena, toadflax, monkeyflower

Cabbage White

mustard family plants, nasturium

Checkered White

peppergrass, winter cress, bladderpods, tumble mustards

Checkered Skipper

mallows, sida, globe mallows, hollyhock, velvet-leaf

Clouded Sulphur

clover

Cloudless Sulphur

cassias

Common Sooty

wing lamb's quarters, amaranth tumbleweed

Common Wood

nymph grasses

Coral Hairstreak

wild black cherry, American and chickasaw plum, black chokeberry

Dogface

lead plant, indigo bush, prairie clover, false indigo

Dreamy Dusky Wing

willows, poplar, aspen, birch

Dun Skipper

sedges, grasses including purpeltop

Eastern Tailed Blue

clover, trefoils, peas, vetches, alfalfa

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

wild black cherry, ash, tulip tree, willow, sweetbay, basswood

Field Crescent

asters

Fiery Skipper

Bermuda grass, St. Augustine grass, bluegrass

Giant Swallowtail

prickly ash, citrus, common rue, hoptree, gas plant, torchwood

Goatweed Butterfly

goadweed, Texas croton, prairie tea

Gorgone Checkerspot

sunflowers and other sunflower members, lysimachia

Gray Comma

gooseberry, azalea, elm

Gray Hairstreak

many pea and mallow family members

Great Purple Hairstreak

mistletoe, Phoradendron flavescens

Great Spangled Fritillary

violets

Gulf Fritillary

maypops, passion vines

Hackberry Butterfly

hackberry, sugarberry, Celtis spp.

Henry's Elfin

redbud, American, dahoon and yaupon hollies, maple-leaved viburnum, blueberries

Hoary Edge

tick trefoils, false indigo, lespedezas

Large Marble

rock cress, winter cress, mustards, wall flower

Least Skipperling

grasses including cutgrass, bluegrass

Little Copper

sheep sorrel, curled dock

Little Wood Satyr

grasses including orchard grass, centipede grass and St. Augustine grass

Long-tailed Skipper

American wisteria, pole beans, tick trefoil, butterfly pea, hog peanut

Monarch

milkweeds

Mourning Cloak

willows, American elm, quaking aspen, paper birch, hackberry

Painted Lady (Cosmopolite)

thistles, mallows, nievitas, yellow fiddleneck

Pearl Crescent

asters

Pine White

pines, douglas fir, balsam fir

Pipe-vine Swallowtail

Dutchman's pipe, wooly pipevine, Virginia snakeroot

Pygmy Blue

saltbush, lamb's quarters, pigweed

Queen

milkweed

Question Mark

elm, hackberry, nettles, hops

Reakirt's Blue

plants in the pea and mimosa families, mesquite, milkvetch

Red Admiral/White Admiral

white cherries, black oaks, aspens, yellow and black birch

Roadside Skipper

bluegrass, oats, Bermuda grass

Sachem

grasses including Bermuda grass

Silver-spotted Skipper

locusts, wisteria, other legumes

Snout Butterfly

hackberries

Spicebush Swallowtail

sassafras, spicebush

Spring Azure

dogwoods, wild black cherry, viburnums, staghorn sumac and others

Sulphurs

clover, peas, vetch, alfalfa, asters, cassia spp.

Sylvan Hairstreak

willows

Tawny Emperior

hackberry, sugarberry

Two-tailed Swallowtail

hoptree, chokeberry, ash

Variegated Fritillary

passion flower, maypop, violets, stonecrop, purslane

Viceroy

willows, cottonwood, aspen

Western Tailed Blue

vetches, milkvetches

Western Tiger Swallowtail

willow, plum, alder, sycamore, hoptree, ash

Western White

rock cress, peppergrass, tumble mustard

Woodland Skipper

grasses

Zebra

passion vines

Zebra Swallowtail

pawpaw

Spring 2011 "unidentified"

Hackberry Emperor (Asterocampa celtis) , found on the side of our pool, May 7, 2011