Landscaping with Florida Native Plants

Attracting Birds, Butterflies and Beneficial Wildlife with Florida native plants.

Basic Butterfly Caterpillar Food Plants

Butterfly: Trees and Shrubs:
Palamedes swallowtailredbay
Tiger Swallowtailsweetbay magnolia
Hackberry Emperorhackberry and elm
Question Markhackberry and elm
Tawny Emperorhackberry and elm
ViceroyCarolina willow
Giant Swallowtailwild lime and Hercules club
Ruddy Daggerwingstrangler and shortleaf fig
Large Orange Sulfurwild tamarind, catclaw and blackbead
Florida WhiteJamaica and limber caper
Cloudless Sulphur, Sleepy Orange Sulphur, Little Yellow, and Orange Barred Sulphur. Chapman’s cassia
Atala Hairstreakcoontie

Butterflies:
Herbaceous Plants:
Cloudless Sulphur, Sleepy Orange, Little Yellow, Orange Sulphur, , Gray Hairstreak and Ceraunus Blue  partridge pea
Zebra Longwing
Gulf Fritillary
Variegated Fritillary
Julia
passionvine
Goldrim and Pipevine Swallowtail pipevine
Black Swallowtailfennel, dill, water dropwort, parsley and other carrot relatives.
Pearl Crescentasters
Phaon Crescentfogfruit
White Peacock water hyssop, lemon bacopa and fogfruit
Cassius Blueleadwort/wild plumbago