Host and Nectar Plants for Common Manitoba Butterflies. Each kind of caterpillar will only eat the leaves of a few kinds of plants, its host plants. Here are some common Manitoba butterflies and the host plants that their caterpillars eat. Host Plants (caterpillar food) Butterfly Species Host Plant Silver-spotted Skipper False Indigo, Wild Peavine Juvenal's Duskywing Bur Oak European Skipper Timothy Grass Common Roadside Skipper Kentucky Blue Grass Black Swallowtail Parsley Family Canadian Tiger Swallowtail Willows, Poplars, Birches Mustard White Wild Mustards Cabbage White Wild Mustards, Cabbage Clouded Sulphur Alfalfa, Clovers Orange Sulphur Alfalfa, Clovers Giant Sulphur Snow Willow Pink Edged Sulphur Blueberries Grey Copper Wild Docks Dorcas Copper Shrubby Cinquefoil Coral Hairstreak Wild Plums & Cherries Edward's Hairstreak Bur Oak Brown Elfin Blueberries, Bearberry Eastern Pine Elfin Jack Pine Spring Azure Blueberries, Wild Cherries Silvery Blue Wild Peavine, Milkvetches Variegated Fritillary Violets, Flax Great Spangled Fritillary Violets Aphrodite Fritillary Violets Atlantis Fritillary Violets Meadow Fritillary Violets Gorgone Checkerspot Sunflowers, Ragweed Pearl Crescent Asters Question Mark Nettles, Hops Grey Comma Birches, American Elm, Currants Compton Tortoiseshell Willows, Birches, Alders Mourning Cloak Willows, Elms Milbert's Tortoiseshell Stinging Nettle American Painted Lady Pussy-toes, Everlastings Painted Lady Thistles, Sunflowers Red Admiral Nettles White Admiral Poplars, Birches Viceroy Willows, Poplars Northern Pearly Eye Purple Oat Grass, Reed Canary Grass Ringlet Grasses & Sedges (various) Common Wood Nymph Grasses (various) Monarch Milkweeds (various)
	Nectar Plants Butterflies will sip nectar from many kinds of flowers. Here are some common plants that are good nectar sources for butterflies, and other insects, too. Annuals Perrenials Shrubs Ageratum Asters (various) Choke Cherry Alyssum Black-eyed Susan Crabapples Cosmos Clovers (various) Lilacs Dianthus Coneflowers (Yellow & Purple) Mock Orange Heliotrope Dotted Blazingstar Nannyberry Impatiens Gaillardia New Jersey Tea Lobelias Goldenrods (various) Red-osier Dogwood Marigold Meadow Blazingstar Tatarian Honeysuckle Nasturtiums Milkweeds (various) Viburnums (various) Petunia Pink-flowered Onion Salvia Prairie-clovers (White & Purple) Verbena Smooth Fleabane Zinnia Sunflowers (various) Wild Bergamot
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