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How to attract butterflies:
A sunny area is needed,
even 1/2 day will do.
Provide a source of mud
or muddy water.
Grow plants that will
provide food for all life stages.
Do not use pesticides
in the garden
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Remember the most
important thing:
YOU CANNOT HAVE BUTTERFLIES
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Learn to identify
the 'good guys.'
Provide the habitat &
they will come!
| Botanical name | Common Name |
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| Amorpha fruitcosa | Lead plant | Dogface, Gray hairstreak |
| Aronia melanocarpa | Black chokeberry | Striped hairstreak |
| Asimina triloba | Paw Paw | Zebra swallowtail |
| Aristolochia macrophylla | Bigleaf pipevine | Pipevine swallowtail |
| Aristolochia tomentosa | Dutchman’s pipevine | Pipevine swallowtail |
| Carpinus caroliniana | Ironwood, musclewood | Red spotted purple, tiger swallowtail, marine blue |
| Carya illinoiensis | Wild pecan | Gray hairstreak |
| Carya ovata | Shagbark hickory | Banded hairstreak |
| Ceanothus ovatus | Inland NJ Tea | duskywing |
| Celtis tenufolia | Dwarf hackberry | Question mark, mourning cloak, Tawny emperor & hackberry butterfly. |
| Cercis canadensis | Redbud | Henry’s elfin |
| Cornus species | Dogwoods | Spring azure |
| Fagus grandifolia | American beech | Early hairstreak |
| Fraxinus quadrangulata | Blue Ash | Mourning cloak, two-tailed tiger swallowtail |
| Ilex opaca | American holly | Henry’s elfin |
| Juniperus ashei | Ash’s juniper | Olive hairstreak |
| Juniperus virginiana | Eastern red cedar | Olive hairstreak |
| Lindera benzoin | Spicebush | Spicebush swallowtail |
| Lirodendron tulipifera | Tulip poplar | Tiger swallowtail & spicebush swallowtail. |
| Lonicera sempervirens | Trumpet honeysuckle | Spring azure |
| Magnolia virginiana | Sweet bay Magnolia | Tiger swallowtail, Palamedes swallowtail & spicebush swallowtail. |
| Myrica cerifera | Southern wax myrtle | Red banded hairstreak |
| Persea borbonia | Red Bay | Palamedes swallowtail & spicebush swallowtail |
| Quercus macrocarpa | Bur oak | Sleepy duskywing, Edward’s hairstreak |
| Quercus nigra | Water oak | Juvenal’s duskywing & White M hairstreak |
| Quercus rubra | Northern red oak | Banded hairstreak, |
| Quercus virginiana | Live oak | Northern hairstreak, Southern hairstreakJuvenal's hairstreak |
| Rhus copallina | Winged sumac | Red banded hairstreak |
| Sapinus drummondii | Soapberry | Soapberry hairstreak |
| Wisteria frutescens | American wisteria | Longtailed skipper, silver-spotted skipper |
| Viburnum dentatum | Arrowwood | Hummingbird clearwing |
| Viburnum nudum | Shonny haw | Hummingbird clearwing |
| Viburnum prunifolium | Blackhaw | Hummingbird clearwing |
| Zanthoxylum clava herculis | Prickly ash | Giant swallowtail |
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