Butterfly Host Plant
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Bahama Cassia, Senna mexicana var. chapmanii
$8.00Medium-sized shrub with seasonal yellow flowers. Host plant for the sulphur butterfly. A Salt Water Flooding Tolerance: Tolerant of occasional/brief inundation such as can occur in storm surges. Salt Spray/ Salty Soil Tolerance: Moderate. Tolerant of salty wind and may get some salt spray. Exposure to salt spray would be uncommon (major storms). – FNPS
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Baldwin’s Eryngium, Eryngium baldwinii
$4.00This tiny eryngium is more like a groundcover with tiny blue flowers that emerge. “A larval host for the Black swallowtail butterfly. Baldwin?s eryngo occurs naturally in wet hammocks and in disturbed areas such as moist roadsides. It typically blooms in summer, although it has been known to bloom as early as spring and into the fall. It attracts small bees and butterflies.” – Floridawildflowers.org
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Fairy Hats/Swamp Leatherflower, Clematis crispa
$4.00“This is a perennial vining plant that is common throughout much of the northern two-thirds of Florida in moist to seasonally wet habitats. It dies back to the ground each winter and reestablishes itself by spring. This species is a twiner, without tendrils, and it twines itself throughout the adjacent vegetation for many feet in all directions once it’s established.” – Craig Hugel, Hawthorne Hill Wildflowers. Larval host for mournful thyris.
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Privet Cassia, Senna ligustrina
$10.00Larval host plant for cloudless sulphur (Phoebis sennae), sleepy orange (Eurema nicippi) and the introduced orange-barred sulphur (Phoebis philea) butterflies. Salt Water Flooding Tolerance: Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water. Salt Spray/ Salty Soil Tolerance: Moderate. Tolerant of salty wind and may get some salt spray. Exposure to salt spray would be uncommon (major storms). – FNPS
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Rabbitbells, Crotalaria rotundifolia
$4.00“All Crotalaria species are poisonous if ingested due to the presence of pyrrolizidine alkaloids. Keep away from small children, pets and livestock. Despite the toxicity, plants in this genus are larval hosts for the Ceraunus blue butterfly and the Bella moth (also known as the Rattlebox moth). The latter relies on the plant?s toxic alkaloids, which it obtains from the seeds, for its brilliant colors.” – Florida Wildflower Foundation. Highly salt-tolerant, moderate to high concentrations of salt in the soil or water. – FNPS
