Other Butterfly Host Plants for Hernando County
Florida's Powerhouse native weed
Bahama Cassia Senna, Chapmanii senna
Beauty Berry, Callicarpa americana
Bidens alba blooms year-round offering a Fall and Winter nectar source to our non-migrating butterflies and pollinators. That places it the third most pollinator visited flower in the state. It is also the host plant for the Dainty Sulphur Butterfly (Nathalis iole).
Beauty Berry, Callicarpa americana
Bahama Cassia Senna, Chapmanii senna
Beauty Berry, Callicarpa americana
Wildlife and birds eat the berries of Beauty berry. Larval host for spring azure butterflies and snowberry clearwing moths.
Attracts various pollinators, especially bees. Documented bees include Agapostemon splendens, Augochlora pura, Dialictus placidensis, Halictus ligatus, Megachile brevis pseudobrevis and the none-native Apis mellifera (honeybee)
Bahama Cassia Senna, Chapmanii senna
Bahama Cassia Senna, Chapmanii senna
Blue Porterweed, Stachytarpheta jamaicensis
Bahama Senna is an excellent choice to add to a pollinator garden. It blooms nearly year round. It is also the host plant for Sulphur Butterflies, (Colias philodice).
Blue Porterweed, Stachytarpheta jamaicensis
Blue Porterweed, Stachytarpheta jamaicensis
Blue Porterweed, Stachytarpheta jamaicensis
Host plant for Common Buckeye Butterfly (Junonia genoveva)
Coral Honeysuckle, Lonicera sempervirens
Blue Porterweed, Stachytarpheta jamaicensis
Coral Honeysuckle, Lonicera sempervirens
Coral Honeysuckle host plant for is the larval host for Spring Azure (Celastrina ladon) and Snowberry Clearwing (Hemaris diffinis) butterflies.