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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Cutleaf Coneflower (Rudbeckia Laciniata) -
Lemon Beebalm (Monarda citriodora) -
Appalachian Sedge (Carex Appalachica) -
Allegheny Serviceberry (Amelanchier laevis) -
Purple Prairie Clover (Dalea Purpurea) -
Penn Sedge (Carex Pensylvanica) -
Palm Sedge (Carex Muskingumensis) -
Maximilian Sunflower (Helianthus Maximiliani) -
Maidenhair Fern (Adiantum pedatum) -
Common Milkweed (Asclepias Syriaca) -
Prairie Coreopsis (Coreopsis Palmata) -
Virginia Wild Rye (Elymus Virginicus) -
Prairie Dropseed (Sporobolus Heterolepis) -
Old Field Goldenrod (Solidago Nemoralis) -
Deflexed Bottle-brush Sedge (Carex Retrorsa) -
Arrowleaf Aster (Symphyotruchum Urophyllum) -
Hairy Wood Mint (Blephilia Hirsuta) -
Ox Eye (Heliopsis Helianthoides) -
Ninebark (Physocarpus Opulifolius) -
Mead's Sedge (Carex Meadii) -
Ivory Sedge (Carex Eburnea) -
Lady Fern (Athyrium Filix-Femina) -
Graceful Sedge (Carex Gracillima) -
Crowned Beggarticks (Bidens Trichosperma)