norfolk garden club butterfly garden, h. olive day school

Norfolk Garden Club Butterfly Garden, H. Olive Day School

Plants in our garden

Blooming

Time &

Height

Caterpillar

Host Plant Caterpillar

Butterfly

Nectar

Source Butterfly

Late

Spring

2-4'

Summer

Up to 2-4'Y

Summer

Fall

2-3'

Y

Summer

Fall

Up to 16'

Y

Summer

Fall

Up to 16'

Y

Summer

Fall

Up to 16'

Y

Summer

Fall

Up to 16'

Y

Painted Lady Mourning Cloak

EasternTiger Swallowtail

Cabbage White

Clouded Sulphur

Silver Spotted Skipper

Variegated Fritillary

Pearl Crescent

Sachem

Bearded Iris (Iris germanica)

Bee Balm (Monarda didyma)

Black Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)

Great Spangled Fritillary

Black Swallowtail

Monarch

Red Admiral

Painted Lady

Butterfly Bush

Giant Swallowtail

Clouded Sulphur

Spicebush Swallowtail

Pipevine Swallowtail

Cabbage White

Orange Sulphur

Summer Azure

Banded Hairstreak


American Lady

Question Mark


Horace’s Duskywing

Wild Indigo Duskywing

Sachem

Zabulon Skipper

Fiery Skipper

Little Grasswing

Crossline Skipper

Ocola Skipper

Butterfly Bush

Butterfly Bush

Butterfly Bush

Spring Azure



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Blooming

Time &

Height

Caterpillar


Butterfly

Nectar

Source Butterfly

Summer

Fall

2-4'

Y Y

Summer

Fall

2-4'

Y

Summer

harvest at

1'

Y

Spring

Summer

12-18"

Y

Spring

Summer

12-18"

Y

Late

Springy y

Summer

10"-6'Y

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Gray Hairstreak

Pearl Crescent

Eastern Comma

White M Hairstreak

Sachem Skipper

Black Swallowtail

Monarch Red Admiral Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Cabbage White

Orange Sulphur

Gray Hairstreak

Pearl Crescent

Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa)

Celery (Apium graveolens)

Chives (Allium schoenoprasum)

Chives (Allium schoenoprasum)



Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis )

Checkered White

Monarch

Fritillary

Duskywing Skipper

Cosmos Spicebush Swallowtail

Sachem Skipper

Silvery Checkerspot

Cloudless Sulphur

Butterfly Bush

Mourning Cloak

Cabbage White

Pearl Crescent

American Lady

Sachem Skipper

Queen American Lady

Red Admiral Painted Lady Common Daisy


Eastern Tiger Swallowtail



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Blooming

Time &

Height

Caterpillar


Butterfly

Nectar

Source Butterfly

Late

Spring

12"

y

Late

Spring

Summer

6-24"

Y

Summer

24-36"Y y

Summer

4-7'Y

Summer

2-3'Y

Late

Summer

Fall

3-5'

Y

Late

Summer

Fall

3-5'

Y

Clouded Sulphur

Red Admiral Viceroy

Silvery Checkerspot

Monarch Gray Hairstreak

American Lady

Viceroy

Black Swallowtail


Zabulon Skipper

Pearl Crescent

Sachem Skipper

Sachem Skipper

American Lady

Giant Swallowtail

Bronze Copper

Orange Sulphur

Creeping Phlox (Phlox stolonifera)


Dianthus (Dianthus gratianopolitanus)

Dill (Anethum graveolens)


Glorisa Daisy

Goldenrod Painted Lady

Common Wood-nymph

Black Swallowtai

l

Clouded Sulphur

Orange Sulphur

Painted Lady

Black Swallowtail


Fennel

Swallowtail Skipper

Checkerspot Sulphur

Goldenrod


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Blooming

Time &

Height

Caterpillar


Butterfly

Nectar

Source Butterfly

Summer

5' and upy

Summer

5' and upY

Summer

Fall

3-10'

Y

Summer

Fall

3-10'

y

Late

Spring to

Fall

1-3'

y

Summer

1-6'Y

Spring

8'24"

Black Swallowtail

Common Checkered Skipper

Gray Hairstreak




Painted Lady

Monarch

Red Admiral

Crescent

Orange Sulphur


Cabbage White



Sachem Skipper

Skipper

Gulf Fritillary

Giant

Swallowtail


Painted Lady Hollyhock

Joe-Pye Weed (Eupatorium purpureum)

Lavender (Lavandula spica)

American Lady

Liatris (Gayfeather)

Lupine

Gray Hairstreak

Sachem Skipper

Little Grasswing

Hollyhock

Joe-Pye Weed (Eupatorium purpureum)

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Blooming

Time &

Height

Caterpillar


Butterfly

Nectar

Source Butterfly

Summer

Fall

6-12"

y

Summer

Fall

6-12"

y

Summer

Fall

6-12"

y

Summer

2-6'y y

Summer

2-6'y

Summer

2-6'y

Summer

2-6'y

Baltimore Checkerspot

Monarch

Mourning Cloak

Question Mark

Viceroy Zabulon Skipper


Cabbage White

Clouded Sulphur

Orange Sulphur



Pearl Crescent

Monarch

Painted Lady

American Lady

Red Admiral Wild Indigo Duskywing


Peck's Skipper

Zabulon Skipper

Fiery Skipper


Black Swallowtail

Banded Hairstreak

Monarch

American Lady

Painted Lady


Little Glassywing

Sachem Skipper

Sachem Skipper

Ocola Skipper

Silvery Checkerspot

Queen

Queen

Red-Spotted Purple

Eastern Tailed Blue

Gray Hairstreak

Deleware Skipper

Peck's Skipper

Southern Cloudywing

Orange Sulphur

Red Admiral

Marigold

Milkweed Common (Asclepias syriaca)




Marigold

Marigold

Spring Azure

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Blooming

Time &

Height

Caterpillar


Butterfly

Nectar

Source Butterfly

Summer

40-60"Y Y

Summer

8-10'

Summer

9-16"

summer

12-18"y

summer

12-18"y

Summer

8-30"

Spring Y

Skipper

Sachem Skipper

(Asclepias syriaca)

Morning Glory

Oregano

Oxeye Daisy (Leucanthemum

vulgare)

Nasturtium


Black Swallowtail

Cabbage White

Orange Sulphur

Eastern Tailed Blue

Oregano Spring Azure

Gray Hairstreak




Zabulon Skipper

Peck's Skipper Little Glassywing

Fiery Skipper

Pansy

Milkweed, Swamp (Asclepias incarnata)

Monarch Monarch

Summer Azure

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Blooming

Time &

Height

Caterpillar


Butterfly

Nectar

Source Butterfly

Summer

12-18"Y Y

Summer

3'Y y

Summer

3'y

Late

Spring

Early

Summer

2-3'

Y

Summer

Fall

18-24"

y

Summer

3-4'y y

Summer

up to 12'Y Y

Mourning Cloak

Black Swallowtail

Cabbage White

Pearl Crescent

Painted Lady Sachem Skipper

Sachem Skipper

American Lady

American Lady


Orange Sulphur

Hoary Edge Skipper


Painted Lady

Banded Hairstreak


Red Spotted Admiral

American Lady



Little Glassywing

Sachem Skipper

Pearl Crescent

Red Admiral Viceroy

Eastern Tailed Blue

Fiery Skipper

Tawny-edge Skipper



Purple Cone Flower (Echinacea purpurea)

Parsley (Petroselinum crispum)

Rose Campion (Lychnis coronari)

Sedum (Sedum 'Autumn Joy')

Shasta Daisy (Leucanthemum)

Sunflower

Red Admiral

Fritillary

Purple Cone Flower (Echinacea purpurea)

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Blooming

Time &

Height

Caterpillar


Butterfly

Nectar

Source Butterfly

Summer

up to 12'Y

Summer

up to 6'

Late

Spring

Summer

up to 3'

Y

Spring

1-12"y

Summer

22-28"y y

Spring

Summer

4-8" in

lawn

Y y

Spring

12-24"y

Orange Sulphur

Zabulon Skipper

Silvery Checkerspot

Cabbage White

Gray Hairstreak

Pearl Crescent

American Lady

Lady

Baltimore Checkerspot

Summer Azure

Least Skipper

Duskywing

Clouded Sulphur


Zabulon Skipper

Eastern Tailed Blue

Wild Geranium Geranium maculatum)

Sunflower

Tickseed (Coreopsis verticilatta)

Common Vetch (Vicia sativa)

White Clover (Trifolium repens)

Gray Hairstreak


Violet

Sunflower, Mexican (Tithonia rotundifolia)

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Blooming

Time &

Height

Caterpillar


Butterfly

Nectar

Source Butterfly

Late

Spring

Summer

2'

y

Summer

2-3'Y

Summer

2-3'Y

Sources

Butterflies and caterpillars that have been seen in Norfolk are labeled in RED.

thebutterflysite.com - List of butterflies and

their preferred host and nector plants:

butterflywebsite.com

Great Hairstreak

Little Grasswing

Silvery Checkerspot

Black Swallowtail

Cabbage White

Orange Sulphur


Pearl Crescent

Monarch

Painted Lady Silver Spotted Skipper

Skipper Tailed Blue Geranium maculatum)

Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)

Zinnia

Zinnia Sachem Skipper

Zabulon Skipper

Ocola Skipper

American

Copper

Eastern Tailed Blue

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