Nectar plants for Monarch

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

Not native to the US

223 plants, most recorded first.

Nativity unknown

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

Red Clover

for Monarch

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Nectar plants · recorded

What the records say

  • Visits flowers of 608 records
    • iNaturalist 604 records

      iNaturalist community observations of species interactions.

    • Hale, Kayla R. S. and Curlis, John David and Auteri, Giorgia G. and Bishop, Sasha and French, Rowan L. K. and Jones, Lance E. and Mills, Kirby L. and Scholtens, Brian G. and Simons, Meagan and Thompson, Cody and Tourville, Jordon and Valdovinos, Fernanda S. (2024). A highly resolved network reveals the role of terrestrial herbivory in structuring aboveground food webs.

    • National Database Plant Pollinators. Center for Plant Conservation at San Diego Zoo Global. Accessed via https://saveplants.org/national-collection/pollinator-search/ on 2020-06-05.

    Read by a rule · 3 records

    These expert lists include butterflies' nectar plants, so outside a butterfly's host plant families their entries count as flower visits.

    Read by a rule · 1 record

    A butterfly photographed feeding on a plant, with no life stage given, is almost always an adult at the flowers, unless the plant is one its caterpillars eat.

    References

    • National Database Plant Pollinators. Center for Plant Conservation at San Diego Zoo Global. Accessed via https://saveplants.org/national-collection/pollinator-search/ on 2020-06-05. Accessed at <https://github.com/globalbioticinteractions/cpc-pollinators/archive/a64674001b3fce1c5a4896d8c29b4bcb024e6f0b.zip> on 14 Jul 2026.
    • Kayla R. S. Hale (Expert)
    • Jordon Tourville (Expert)
    • Brian G. Scholtens (Expert)
    • iNaturalist observation 97902364

    and 596 more

  • Visits 9 records
  • Interacts with 20 records

    References

    and 14 more