Host Plants (where eggs are layed)
| Butterfly | Caterpillar Host Plants |
|---|---|
| Pipevine swallowtail | pipevines (Aristolochia spp.) |
| Zebra swallowtail | pawpaw (Asimina triloba) |
| Black swallowtail | parsley family - parsley, dill, fennel, carrot, Queen Anne's lace, Golden Alexanders (Zizia aurea), rue family - common rue |
| Giant swallowtail | northern prickly-ash (Zanthoxylum americanum), common rue |
| Eastern tiger swallowtail | tuliptree (Liriodendron tulipifera), wild black cherry (Prunus serotina), ash (Fraxinus spp.) |
| Spicebush swallowtail | spicebush (Lindera benzoin), sassafras (Sassafras albidum) |
| Cabbage white (non-native) | mustard family - cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, garlic mustard, (invasive non-native), winter-cress |
| Clouded sulphur | clovers |
| Orange sulphur | alfalfa, clovers |
| American copper | sheep sorrel, docks |
| Banded hairstreak | oaks (Quercus spp.), hickories (Carya spp.), black walnut (Juglans nigra) |
| Gray hairstreak | flowers and seeds of - tick-trefoils, bush-clovers, clovers, mallows, hibiscus |
| Henry's elfin | redbud (Cercis canadensis), American holly (Ilex opaca), blueberries (Vaccinium spp.) |
| Eastern tailed blue | flowers and seeds of - clovers, bush-clovers, tick-trefoils, sweet clovers |
| Baltimore | white turtlehead (Chelone glabra) |
| Spring azure/summer azure | buds and flowers of - flowering dogwood (Cornus florida), wild black cherry (Prunus serotina), viburnums, blueberries, meadow-sweet (Spiraea spp.), New Jersey tea (Ceanothus americanus), wing stem (Verbesina alternifolia) |
| Variegated fritillary | violets and pansies |
| Great spangled fritillary | violets |
| Meadow fritillary | violets |
| Silvery checkerspot | ox-eye sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides), sunflowers (Helianthus spp.), black-eyed Susans (Rudbeckia spp.), wing stem (Verbesina alternifolia), coneflowers (Echinacea spp.) |
| Pearl crescent | asters (Symphyotrichum spp.) - excluding white wood aster (Eurybia divaricata) |
| Question mark | hackberry trees (Celtis spp.), elms (Ulmus spp.), nettles |
| Eastern comma | nettles, hops, elms (Ulmus spp.) |
| Mourning cloak | willows (Salix spp.), elms (Ulmus spp.), aspens (Populus spp.), birches (Betula spp.), hackberry tree (Celtis spp.) |
| American lady | pussytoes (Antennaria spp.), pearly everlasting, fragrant cudweed |
| Painted lady | thistles (some are invasive non-natives), mallows, hollyhocks, asters, legumes and many others |
| Red admiral | nettles, false nettle |
| Common buckeye | English plantain, common plantain, figworts, vervains, snapdragon, toadflax |
| Red-spotted purple | cherries (Prunus spp.), willows (Salix spp.), aspens (Populus spp.), serviceberries (Amelanchier spp.), birches (Betula spp.), hawthorns (Crataegus spp.), sweet crabapple (Malus coronaria) |
| Viceroy | willows (Salix spp.), aspens (Populus spp.) |
| Hackberry & Tawny emperors | hackberry trees (Celtis spp.) |
| Appalachian brown | sedges (Carex spp.), bulrush |
| Little wood satyr | bluegrasses, orchard grass |
| Common wood nymph | purpletop grass (Tridens flavus), poverty grass, big bluestem, little bluestem |
| Monarch | milkweeds (Asclepias spp.) |
| Silver-spotted skipper | black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia), honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthos), tick-trefoils, hog-peanut and other legumes |
| Wild indigo duskywing (skipper) | wild indigo (Baptisia tinctoria), blue false indigo (Baptisia australis), crown-vetch (invasive non-native) |
| Common checkered skipper | mallows, sidas, velvet-leaf, hollyhock |
| Peck's skipper | rice cutters (Leersia oryzoides), bluegrasses |
| Little glassywing (skipper) | purpletop grass (Tridens flavus) |
| Zabulon skipper | purpletop grass (Tridens flavus), lovegrass |
Prepared by York County Master Gardener Debra Carman, February 2017
