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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
  6. Figwort Family
  7. Butterfly Bushes and Allies
  8. Rio Grande Butterfly-bush
  9. Supports

What Rio Grande Butterfly-bush supports

40 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 1 food 38 flowers

Caterpillars All

1 native moths and butterflies raised on it, most recorded first.

  • Variable Checkerspot Euphydryas chalcedona on butterfly bushes and allies

Plant eaters All

1 native animals that feed on it, most recorded first.

  • Green Cone-headed Planthopper Acanalonia conica on butterfly bushes and allies

Flower visitors All

38 native pollinators and other flower visitors, most recorded first.

  • Texan Crescent Anthanassa texana
  • Monarch Danaus plexippus on butterfly bushes and allies
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Papilio glaucus on butterfly bushes and allies
  • Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta on butterfly bushes and allies
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui on butterfly bushes and allies
  • Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus on butterfly bushes and allies
  • Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa on butterfly bushes and allies
  • Silver-spotted Skipper Epargyreus clarus on butterfly bushes and allies
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