Basic Butterfly Caterpillar Food Plants
Butterfly: | Trees and Shrubs: |
Palamedes swallowtail | redbay |
Tiger Swallowtail | sweetbay magnolia |
Hackberry Emperor | hackberry and elm |
Question Mark | hackberry and elm |
Tawny Emperor | hackberry and elm |
Viceroy | Carolina willow |
Giant Swallowtail | wild lime and Hercules club |
Ruddy Daggerwing | strangler and shortleaf fig |
Large Orange Sulfur | wild tamarind, catclaw and blackbead |
Florida White | Jamaica and limber caper |
Cloudless Sulphur, Sleepy Orange Sulphur, Little Yellow, and Orange Barred Sulphur. | Chapman’s cassia |
Atala Hairstreak | coontie |
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 Swallowtail | fennel, dill, water dropwort, parsley and other carrot relatives. |
Pearl Crescent | asters |
Phaon Crescent | fogfruit |
White Peacock | water hyssop, lemon bacopa and fogfruit |
Cassius Blue | leadwort/wild plumbago |