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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Prairie Coreopsis (Coreopsis Palmata) -
Purple Prairie Clover (Dalea Purpurea) -
White Tinged Sedge (Carex albicans) -
Poke Milkweed (Asclepias Exaltata) -
Common Milkweed (Asclepias Syriaca) -
Appalachian Sedge (Carex Appalachica) -
Lemon Beebalm (Monarda citriodora) -
Mad Dog Skullcap (Scutellaria Lateriflora) -
Cutleaf Coneflower (Rudbeckia Laciniata) -
Prairie Dropseed (Sporobolus Heterolepis) -
Yellow Pimpernel (Taenidia Integerrima) -
Maximilian Sunflower (Helianthus Maximiliani) -
Allegheny Serviceberry (Amelanchier laevis) -
Virginia Wild Rye (Elymus Virginicus) -
Hairy Wood Mint (Blephilia hirsuta) -
Orange Coneflower (Rudbeckia Fulgida) -
Old Field Goldenrod (Solidago Nemoralis) -
Arrowleaf Aster (Symphyotruchum Urophyllum) -
Heart-leaved Alexanders (Zizia aptera) -
Prairie Sage (Artemisia Ludoviciana) -
Mead's Sedge (Carex Meadii) -
Big-leaf Aster (Eurybia Macrophylla) -
Ox Eye (Heliopsis Helianthoides) -
Ninebark (Physocarpus Opulifolius)