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.

Blue Vervain

for Monarch

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Nectar plants · recorded

What the records say

  • Visits flowers of 6 records
    • 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.

    • iNaturalist 2 records

      iNaturalist community observations of species interactions.

    • 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.

    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 53394341

    and 1 more