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.

Nodding Beggarticks

for Monarch

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Nectar plants · recorded

What the records say

  • Visits flowers of 4 records
    • iNaturalist 3 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.

    Read by a rule · 1 record

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

  • Interacts with 3 records

    References

    • A. Thessen. 2014. Species associations extracted from EOL text data objects via text mining. Accessed at <https://github.com/EOL/pseudonitzchia/archive/e5838965a186fba4b7215cd0d179c4526773bad5.zip> on 13 Jul 2026.
    • iNaturalist observation 316369287