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This list is by no means exhaustive. If you have any suggestions, additions, deletions or corrections please let us know!
| BUTTERFLY |
PLANT |
| Swallowtail Family (Papilionidae) |
| Black Swallowtail |
dill, fennel, parsley, carrot, rue, parsnip |
| Giant Swallowtail |
rue, wafer ash, prickly ash |
| Pipevine Swallowtail |
pipevine |
| Spicebush Swallowtail |
spice bush, sassafrass |
| Tiger Swallowtail |
magnolia, tulip tree, wafer ash, black cherry |
| Zebra Swallowtail |
pawpaw |
| Snout Butterflies (Libytheidae) |
| Common Snout Butterfly |
hackberry |
| Brush Footed Butterflies (Nymphalidae) |
| Great Spangled and Idalia Fritillaries |
violets |
| Buckeye |
plantains, gerardias, toadflax, snapdragons, false loosestrifes |
| Painted Lady |
thistles |
| Red Admiral |
nettles, false nettle |
| Viceroy and Red-Spotted Purple |
willows, especially black willow, pussy willow, poplars, plums, and cherries |
| Hackberry Butterfly |
hackberry |
| Monarch Butterfly |
milkweeds |
| Sulfurs (Pieridae) |
| Cloudless Sulfur |
sennas, partridge pea |
| Dogface Butterfly |
lead plant, false indigo, prairie clover |
| Coppers, Blues, Harvesters and Metalmarks (Lycaenidae, Riodinidae) |
| American Copper |
sorrel |
| Sylvan Hairstreak |
willow |
| Common Hairstreak |
mallow family , hollyhock , rose and marsh mallows |
| Gray Hairstreak |
hawthorn |
| Skippers (Hesperoidea, Hesperidae) |
| Blazing Star Skipper |
grasses |
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