First and most importantly, establishing a butterfly garden what you are doing, or should be doing is establishing an Ecosystem Garden.
What is this? Ecosystem Gardening is about giving a little back to wildlife
It’s a way of gardening sustainably, conserving natural resources, and creating welcoming habitats for wildlife in our gardens so that we will attract more birds, butterflies, pollinators, bats, and other wildlife. We can learn to reconcile our land use to support the needs of wildlife.
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Our role as is first to take a gardeners version of the Hippocratic Oath: FIRST, DO NO HARM.
CATERPILLAR FOOD (Host) PLANTS and the BUTTERFLIES THEY ATTRACT
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Arugula, Nasturtium, Peppergrass: Checkered White, Great Southern White
Asters: American Lady, Dainty Sulphur, Pearl Crescent
Blackbead, Wild Tamarind: Large Orange Sulphur
Black Cherry: Red-Spotted Purple, Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Cannas, Alligator Flag: Brazilian Skipper
Cassias/Sennas, Partridge Pea: Cloudless Sulphur, Little Yellow,
Orange-Barred Sulphur, Sleepy Orange
Citrus, Torchwood, Wild Lime: Giant Swallowtail
Coontie: Atala Hairstreak
Elms: Comma, Mourning Cloak
Fogfruit/Frogfruit (Phyla nodiflora): Phaon Crescent, White Peacock
Hackberry Tree: Hackberry Emperor, Mourning Cloak, Question Mark, Snout,
Tawny Emperor
Hoptree: Giant Swallowtail, Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Jamaica Dogwood: Hammock Skipper
Milkweeds (Asclepias): Monarch, Queen
Parsley (Italian self-sows), Dill, Fennel: Eastern Black Swallowtail
Passionflower Vine: Gulf & Variegated Fritillary, Julia, Zebra Heliconian (Lady Margarite OK. Not the Crimson Passion Flower, which is poison to the cats.
Pawpaw: Zebra Swallowtail
Pellitory (Purietaria floridana), False Nettle (Boehmeria), Hop Vine (Humulus
Comma, Red Admiral
Pipevine (Aristolochia): Pipevine Swallowtail. Polydamas Swallowtail
Plumbago (there is a native one): Cassius Blue
Red Bay, Sweet Bay Magnolia: Palamedes Swallowtail, Spicebush Swallowtail
Rue: Giant Swallowtail, Black Swallowtail
Ruellia, Snapdragon, Verbena: Buckeye, American Lady, White Peacock
Sassafrass, Spicebush: Spicebush Swallowtail
Strangler Fig: Ruddy Daggerwing
Violets (Native): Variegated Fritillary
Willows (Native): Viceroy, Mourning Cloak, Red-Spotted
