To attract butterflies to your garden you need not only nectar plants for them but also host plants where they can lay eggs and that will be food for the caterpillars. Asters --- Pearl Crescent Carrot, Dill, Fennel and Parsley -- Black Swallowtail Chokecherry/black cherry -- Tiger Swallowtail False Nettle --- Red Admiral and Eastern Comma Flax, Pansy, Passionflower --- Variegated Fritillary Milkweed -- Monarch Snapdragon, Toadflax -- Common Buckeye Violets -- most all Fritillaries Willow -- Viceroy, Western Tiger Swallowtail, Red-spotted Purple and Mourning Cloak Passionflower -- Gulf Fritillary, Zebra Longwing If you know of host plants for common Butterflies in your part of the world, please post a similar list.
Mallo and Alcea---- Painted lady Mallo and Alcea--- Spotted skipper Stone crops and passiflora + Viola--- Varigated fritillary Hibiscus and mallow---Gray hairstreak Sassafras and Spicebush (Lindera)--- Spicebush swallowtail Pipe vine (Aristolochia)---Pipe vine swallowtail I know, you wanted common, but here is a special one. Wild lupine----- Karner Blue (ENDANGERED) Any one else have some to add? Ron
