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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Brush-footed Butterflies
  7. Tiger Milkweed Butterflies
  8. Monarch
  9. Supported by

What supports Monarch

2,328 native plants
support it in the US
87 caterpillar hosts 2,241 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

87 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Swamp Milkweed Asclepias incarnata
  • Butterfly Milkweed Asclepias tuberosa
  • Narrowleaf Milkweed Asclepias fascicularis
  • Showy Milkweed Asclepias speciosa
  • Antelopehorn Milkweed Asclepias asperula
  • Whorled Milkweed Asclepias verticillata
  • Zizotes Milkweed Asclepias oenotheroides
  • Woollypod Milkweed Asclepias eriocarpa
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Nectar plants All

2,241 native plants whose flowers it visits, most recorded first.

  • New England Aster Symphyotrichum novae-angliae keystone
  • Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea
  • Spotted Joe-Pye Weed Eutrochium maculatum
  • White Beggarticks Bidens alba
  • Blue Mistflower Conoclinium coelestinum
  • Wild Bergamot Monarda fistulosa
  • Northern Seaside Goldenrod Solidago sempervirens keystone
  • Palmleaf Mistflower Conoclinium dissectum
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