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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Zigzag Goldenrod (Solidago Flexicaulis) -
Butterfly Milkweed (Asclepias Tuberosa) -
Golden Alexanders (Zizia aurea) -
Eastern Columbine (Aquilegia Canadensis) -
Plantain-leaved Pussytoes (Antennaria Plantaginifolia) -
Sweet Joe Pye Weed (Eutrochium Purpureum) -
Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium Scoparium) -
Brown-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia Triloba) -
Aromatic Aster (Symphyotruchum Oblongfolium) -
Hairy Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum Verticillatum Var. Pilosum) -
Blue-stemmed Goldenrod (Solidago Caesia) -
Maidenhair Fern (Adiantum pedatum) -
Blue Grama (Bouteloua Gracilis) -
Palm Sedge (Carex Muskingumensis) -
Common Blue Violet (Viola Sororia) -
Common Evening Primrose (Oenothera Biennis) -
Pearly Everlasting (Anaphalis Margaritacea) -
Penn Sedge (Carex Pensylvanica) -
Prairie Dropseed (Sporobolus Heterolepis) -
Ironweed (Vernonia Fasciculata) -
Side-Oats Grama (Bouteloua Curtipendula) -
Common Boneset (Eupatorium Perfoliatum) -
Big-leaf Aster (Eurybia Macrophylla) -
Purple Prairie Clover (Dalea Purpurea)