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Approved Butterfly Plants

Common Name Scientific Name Class Type
Heliotropium
Scorpion Tail Native Nectar
angiospermum
Host and
Scrub Palmetto Sabal etonia Native
Nectar
Conocarpus erectus Host and
Silver Buttonwood Native
var sericeus Nectar
Silver Sea
Oxeye Daisy Borrichia frutescens Native Nectar
Southern Live Oak Quercus virginiana Native Host
Sugarberry Celtis laevigata Native Host
(Southern Hackberry)

Sunshine Mimosa Mimosa strigillosa Native Host

Swamp Bay Persea palustris Native Host
Swamp Milkweed Asclepias incarnata Native Host
Sweet Bay Magnolia Magnolia virginiana Native Host
Torchwood Amyris elemifera Native Host
Tropical Sage Salvia coccinea Native Nectar
(Blood Sage)
Wax Myrtle
(Southern Bayberry) Myrica cerifera Native Host
Host and
White Indigo Berry Randia aculeata Native
Nectar
White Stopper Eugenia axillaris Native
Wild Coffee Psychotria nervosa Native Nectar
Wild Petunia Ruellia caroliniensis Native Host
Willow Bustic Sideroxylon Native Nectar
(White Bully) salicifolium
Zinnia Zinnia elegans Exotic Nectar

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