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Butterfly Gardening Guide

REGIONAL GARDENING GUIDE

REGION 3.
Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, southern Alberta, southern Saskatchewan, southwest Manitoba. 


The following nectar plants (flowers) will attract all the common butterflies of region 1. Buddleia, Heliotrope, Lantana, Milkweed, Mint, Pentas, Porterweed, Verbena and Zinnias.

Listed below are the butterflies common to this region and the plants that will attract them.

Host/Larval Plant
latin name  

 Common Butterfly Name
latin name

 Milkweeds
Asclepias syriaca,
A.incarnata,
A.speciosa

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 Monarch
Danaus plexippus


Violet
Viola spp.

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Great Spangled Fritillary
Speyeria cybele

 

Hollyhocks
Alcea rosea
Sunflower
Helianthus spp.

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Painted Lady
Vanessa cardui

 

Wild Plums and Cherries
Prunus spp.
Aspens and Willows
Salix spp.
Poplars
Populus spp.

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Western Tiger Swallowtail
Papilio rutulus

Wild Lilacs
Ceanothus spp.
Wild Plums and Cherries
Prunus spp.
Buckthorns
Rhamnus spp.

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Pale Swallowtail
Papilio eurymedon

Carrot
Daucus carota
Fennel
Foeniculum vulgare
Parsley
Petroselinum crispum
Dill
Anethum graveolens

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Anise Swallowtail
Papilio zelicaon

Aspens and Willows
Salix spp.

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Mourning Cloak
Nymphalis antiopa

Sage
Artemisia spp.

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Old World Swallowtail
Papilio machaon

Wild Cherry
Prunus spp.
Poplar
Poplus spp.

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Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Papilio glaucus

 Garden Nasturtium
Tropaeolum majus
Cabbage
Brassica spp.

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Cabbage White
Pieris rapae


Willows
Salix spp.
Aspens and Poplars
Populus spp.
Choke Cherry
Prunus virginia

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Weidemeyer's Admiral
Limenitis weidemeyeri


Wild Plums
Prunnus spp.
Blueberries
Vaccinium spp.
Ashes
Fraxinus spp.

 

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Striped Hairstreack
Satyrium Liparops
 
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