Twenty most important butterfly plants

Twenty most important butterfly plants

INDIGENOUS BUTTERFLY HOST PLANTS

Papilionids (Swallowtails)

1 Clausena anisata

Zanthoxylum capense; Z. davyi

2 Vepris lanceolata; V. reflexa

Teclea natalensis; T. gerrardii

Nymphalids

(Pansies, Commodores, Pipers, Sailors, Browns, Friars, Tigers, Charaxes, etc.

3 Ruellia cordata

Chaetacanthus burchelli; C. setiger;

4 Isoglossa woodii

5 Dyschoristes rogersii; D. depressa

6 Asystasia gangetica

Portulaca quadrifera; Talinum sp.

7 Plectranthus spicatum; P. hereoensis; Pycnostachys spp.

Tragia glabrata; T. meyeriana

Urera trinervis

Laportea peduncularis

8 Acalypha glabrata

9 Pseudechinolaena polystachya, Ehrharta erecta, Oplismenus hirtellus

10 Tylophora anomala, Cynanchum spp.

11 Allophylus natalensis; A. dregeanus; Searsia spp.

12 Gomphocarpus spp.

Trichilia emetica; T. dregeana; Turraea floribunda; Croton gratissimus; C.

sylvaticus

Englerophytum natalense

Lycaenids (The Blues)

Oxalis sp.

Vachelia karoo

13 Plumbago auriculata

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Pierids (The Whites)

Ziziphus spp.

Geranium spp. And Pelargonium spp.

Crassula alba; Cotyledon spp.

14 Maerua spp.

15 Capparis spp.

Cadaba natalensis

Hesperids (Skipper, Policeman, Flats, Elfins, etc)

Dioscorea sp.

Dicliptera sp.

MOST ATTRACTIVE INDIGENOUS NECTAR PLANTS TO THE BUTTERFLIES

16 Pentas sp.

Clerodendrum glabrum

17 Linzia glabra (Vernonia glabra)

18 Gymnanthenum coratum (Vernonia colorata)

Hibiscus pedunculatus

19 Justicia protracta

Kleinia fulgens

Dicliptera clinopodia

20 Scabiosa sp.