Caterpillar hosts for Monarch

87 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

Not native to the US

6 plants, most recorded first.

Nativity unknown

23 recorded only to genus or family, or with no nativity on record.

Wild Cotton

for Monarch

Open

Caterpillar hosts · recorded

What the records say

Hosted by · as larvae 3 records
- Ferrer-Paris et al. 2013 2 records
  
  Ferrer-Paris JR, Sánchez-Mercado A, Viloria ÁL, Donaldson J (2013) Congruence and Diversity of Butterfly-Host Plant Associations at Higher Taxonomic Levels. PLoS ONE 8(5): e63570. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0063570
- HOSTS (NHM caterpillar host plants) 1 record
  
  Gaden S. Robinson; Phillip R. Ackery; Ian Kitching; George W Beccaloni; Luis M. Hernández (2023). HOSTS (from HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants) [Data set resource]. Natural History Museum. https://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/hosts/resource/877f387a-36a3-486c-a0c1-b8d5fb69f85a via Natural History Museum (2023). Data Portal query on 1 resources created at 2023-05-24 11:19:42.032183 PID https://doi.org/10.5519/qd.bsucrxdz
References
Eats · as larvae 2 records
- NHM Interactions Bank 1 record
  
  Ed Baker; Ian J. Kitching; George W. Beccaloni; Amoret Whitaker et al. (2016). Dataset: NHM Interactions Bank. Natural History Museum Data Portal (data.nhm.ac.uk). https://doi.org/10.5519/0060767
- Siad 1 record
  
  Species Interactions of Australia Database (SIAD): Helping us to understand species interactions in Australia and beyond. http://www.discoverlife.org/siad/ .
Read by a rule · 1 record

This is a list of caterpillar food plants, so an entry outside a butterfly's known host plant families is an error and is left out.
References
- Edward Baker; Ian Kitching; George W Beccaloni; Amoret Whitaker; Steen Dupont; Vincent Smith; John S Noyes (2017). NHM Interactions Bank. https://doi.org/10.5519/0060767. Accessed at <https://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/82e807f0-6273-4f19-be0a-7f7558442a25/resource/f84ad9f1-bd0c-4811-8108-8dcd83f224a4/download/nhminteractionsbank.csv> on 14 Jul 2026.
- ABRS 2009. Australian Faunal Directory. Danaus plexippus. Australian Biological Resources StudyNode, Canberra. Accessed at <http://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/9be07672-ce5c-4df6-a5d8-d20a8654814a> on 14 Jul 2026.
Interacts with 16 records
- iNaturalist 16 records
  
  iNaturalist community observations of species interactions.
References
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