Insect Host Plants
Plants that caterpillars and other insect larvae need to complete their life cycle. Butterflies and moths lay eggs on these host plants that hatch into caterpillars which feed and grow before pupating into adults that pollinate your garden. These plants can also support Beetles (Coleoptera), Flies (Diptera), Bees & Wasps (Hymenoptera), True Bugs (Hemiptera), Grasshoppers & Crickets (Orthoptera).
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Butterfly Milkweed (Asclepias Tuberosa) -
Golden Alexanders (Zizia aurea) -
Zigzag Goldenrod (Solidago Flexicaulis) -
Eastern Columbine (Aquilegia Canadensis) -
Brown-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia Triloba) -
Plantain-leaved Pussytoes (Antennaria Plantaginifolia) -
Sweet Joe Pye Weed (Eutrochium Purpureum) -
Aromatic Aster (Symphyotruchum Oblongfolium) -
Hairy Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum Verticillatum Var. Pilosum) -
Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium Scoparium) -
Blue-stemmed Goldenrod (Solidago Caesia) -
Common Blue Violet (Viola Sororia) -
Pearly Everlasting (Anaphalis Margaritacea) -
Common Evening Primrose (Oenothera Biennis) -
Ironweed (Vernonia Fasciculata) -
Side-Oats Grama (Bouteloua Curtipendula) -
Common Boneset (Eupatorium Perfoliatum) -
Maidenhair Fern (Adiantum pedatum) -
Prairie Pussytoes (Antennaria Neglecta) -
Blue Grama (Bouteloua Gracilis) -
Big Bluestem (Andropogon Gerardii) -
Penn Sedge (Carex Pensylvanica) -
Palm Sedge (Carex Muskingumensis) -
Prairie Coreopsis (Coreopsis Palmata)