HOST PLANTS
American Lady - pearly everlasting, plantain-leaved pussytoes, Artemesia, ironweed, and burdock Coral Hairstreak - wild black cherry (Prunus sp.) Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - wild cherry, ash, tulip tree, willow, sweetbay, basswood, birch Eastern Comma - elm, hops, nettle Painted Lady -thistle, hollyhock, mallow, various legumes (Fabaceae) Spicebush Swallowtail - sassafras, spicebush, tulip tree Whites and Sulphurs - dandelions, clover, asters Great Spangled Fritillary - native round-leaf violet, arrow-leaf violet, common blue violet Viceroy - willows, poplar American Copper - sheep sorrel, curled dock Eastern Tailed-blue - clover, lupine, vetch Monarch - Milkweed Black Swallowtail - carrot, celery, common rue, dill fennel, parsley, Queen Anne’s lace Baltimore Checkerspot - turtlehead, English plantain Common buckeye - butter and eggs, plantain, wild petunia, snapdragon, toadflax Mourning cloak - paper birch, willow, elm, hackberry Pearl Crescent - smooth aster Question Mark - elm, nettle, hops, hackberry Red Admiral - nettle, Pennsylvania pellitory Red-Spotted Purple - apple, basswood, birch, cherry, oak, pear, poplar, willow, deerberry, shadbush Skippers - false indigo, wisteria, sedges, grasses
NECTAR PLANTS
American Lady - aster, black-eyed Susan, coreopsis, dogbane, goldenrod, hyssop, marigold, milkweed, phlox, purple coneflower, scabiosa, vetch, yarrow, zinnia Coral Hairstreak - butterflyweed, New Jersey tea, dogbane Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - azelea, blazing star, buttonbush, chives, ironweed, Joe-Pye weed, lilac, milkweed, NE aster, purple coneflower, zinnia Eastern Comma - dandelion, Joe-Pye weed, milkweed, purple coneflower, stonecrop Painted Lady - aster, blazing star, buttonbush, coreopsis, cosmos, ironweed, Joe-Pye weed, milkweed, NE aster, purple coneflower, red clover, scabiosa, zinnia Spicebush Swallowtail - aster, azalea, blazing star, buttonbush, dogbane, lilac, lupine, milkweed, monarda, purple coneflower, phlox, sweet pepperbush, zinnia Whites and Sulphurs - aster, blazing star, clover, dandelion, dogbane, phlox, goldenrod, hyssop, milkweed, mint, sedum Great Spangled Fritillary - blazing star, coreopsis, ironweed, Joe-Pye weed, lavender, milkweed, monarda, mountain laurel, purple coneflower, red clover, verbena, vetch, zinnia Viceroy - aster, black-eyed Susan, goldenrod, hyssop, Joe-Pye week, milkweed, purple coneflower, sedum American Copper - common buttercup, white clover, yarrow, ox-eye daisy Eastern Tailed-blue - aster, dogbane, goldenrod, Joe-Pye weed, milkweed, mint, red & white clover, wild strawberry, yarrow Black Swallowtail - aster, blazing star, blue mistflower, chives, clover, phlox, hyssop, milkweed, monarda, purple coneflower, spirea, zinnia Baltimore Checkerspot - dogbane, honeysuckle, lobelia, milkweed, purple coneflower, viburnum, white ash Common buckeye - aster, chickory, clover, cosmos, dogbane, milkweed Mourning cloak - coneflwoer, dogbane, goldenrod, lilac, milkweed, pussy willow flowers, shasta daisy Pearl Crescent - aster, black-eyed Susan, dogbane, Joe-Pye weed, milkweed, obedient plant, orange & purple coneflower Question Mark - aster, purple coneflower, milkweed, sweet pepperbush Red Admiral - aster, purple coneflower, crab apple, creeping phlox, lilac, milkweed, red clover, salvia, sedum Red-Spotted Purple - dogbane, milkweed, purple coneflower, spirea, staghorn sumac, viburnum Skippers - black-eyed Susan, blazing star, buttonbush, dogbane, goldenrod, indigo, ironweed, Joe-Pye weed, milkweed, Monarda, New Jersey tea, purple coneflower, red clover, vetch