User:Asarelah/sandbox/Selected plants

User:Asarelah/sandbox/Selected plants for condo

Key

E - Endangered T - Threatened SC - Special concern SCE - Special Concern and believed extirpated

• All butterflies and moths listed are on the Connecticut endangered species list.

Note

• Coccinella novemnotata (The nine-spotted lady beetle) is a special concern in species in Connecticut, and you buy ladybugs to put in a garden as natural means pest control, this species is a good selection.

Miscellaneous plants that are good for wildlife

• Muhlenbergia capillaris (E), no mention of bees or butterflies

Evergreen Groundcovers

• Gaultheria hispidula (Creeping snowberry, SC, good for bees adult food family for Erynnis brizo, T)
• Vaccinium vitis-idaea ssp. minus (Mountain cranberry, SCE), Genus is larval food for Callophrys henrici SC, Drasteria occulta SCE, Sympistis dentata T, might be used by Speranza exonerata T, Genus is larval food Erynnis brizo T, family is adult food for Erynnis brizo T.
• Waldsteinia fragarioides (E, evergreen groundcover)

Genus is listed as good for bees

Herbaceous Asteraceae, Larval Schinia septentrionalis (T) feed on asters

Solidago, see list of butterflies that feed on it below

• Solidago is also larval food for Cucullia speyeri, SCE, and adult food Calephelis borealis E, Regal fritillary SCE, Erynnis horatius SCE.
  • Solidago aestivalis SCE, aka rugosa
  • Solidago latissimifolia SCE
  • Oligoneuron rigidum (aka Solidago rigida, E) (Check ethnobotany)
  • Oligoneuron album (aka Solidago ptarmicoides, E)

Non-Solidago asters

• • Oenothera fruticosa (SC)
  • Symphyotrichum prenanthoides (SCE, do ethnobotany)
  • Cirsium horridulum (E)

Milkweeds (adult food for Regal fritillary, SCE)

• Asclepias variegata (SCE)
• Asclepias viridiflora (E)
• Asclepias purpurascens (SC)

Other plants for bees

• Senna hebecarpa, T, larval food for non-endangered butterfly, family is larval food for Callophrys irus, T
• Verbena simplex (SC) (Fed on by the adults of Amblyscirtes vialis, E)
• Agastache nepetoides (E)
• Agastache scrophulariifolia (E)
• Lythrum alatum (E)
• Uvularia grandiflora (E, spread by ants)

Plants listed as good for butterflies

Viola (plant), larval food for Speyeria atlantis E, Regal fritillary SCE)

• • Viola hirsutula (Southern wood violet, SCE)
  • Viola adunca (Hook-spurred violet, E)
  • Viola brittoniana (Coast violet, E)
  • Viola renifolia (Kidney-leaf white violet, E)
  • Viola canadensis (Canada violet, SC)
  • Viola nephrophylla (Northern bog violet, SC)
  • Viola selkirkii (Great-spurred violet, SC)

Other plants that are good for butterflies

• Vaccinium myrtilloides (Velvetleaf blueberry, E, Larval food for Callophrys henrici SC, Chaetaglaea cerata SC, Drasteria occulta SCE, Euchlaena madusaria T, Glena cognataria SCE, Sympistis dentata T, might be used as larval food by Speranza exonerata T, larval food for Erynnis brizo T, family is adult food for Erynnis brizo, T.
• Carex trichocarpa (SC, larval food for Euphyes bimacula, E)

Good taxa for butterflies

• Hudsonia (Cistaceae family) Host to Drasteria graphica, ssp atlantica)
  • Hudsonia tomentosa (Woolly beach-heather, T)
  • Hudsonia ericoides (Golden heather, E)
• Rubus (Rosaceae) (adult food for Erynnis brizo, Lycaena hyllus, Hemaris gracilis)
  • Rubus cuneifolius (Sand blackberry, SC)
• Rosa (Parasa indetermina)
  • Rosa nitida (SCE)
• Ribes (Grossulariaceae family) hosts Abagrotis nefascia ssp benjamini in the west
  • Ribes glandulosum (Skunk currant, SC)
  • Ribes lacustre (Swamp black current, SCE)
  • Ribes rotundifolium (Wild current, SC)
  • Ribes triste (Swamp red currant, E)
• Prunus (Host for Eumacaria latiferrugata, Chaetaglaea cerata)
  • Prunus alleghaniensis (Alleghany plum, SCE)
  • Prunus maritima var. gravesii (Graves beach plum, SCE)
• Salix (hosts Acronicta lanceolaria, Callophrys polios, Glena cognataria, Acronicta fragilis)
  • Salix exigua (Sandbar willow, E)
  • Salix pedicellaris (Bog willow, E)
  • Salix petiolaris (Slender willow, SC)
• Viburnum (Adoxaceae family, host to Callophrys henrici)
  • Viburnum nudum (Possum haw, SCE)
  • Viburnum prunifolium (Smooth black-haw, T)
• Ericaceae (Adult food for Erynnis brizo, T)
  • Andromeda polifolia var. glaucophylla (Bog rosemary, T)
  • Gaylussacia bigeloviana (Dwarf huckleberry, T)
  • Lyonia mariana (Stagger-bush, SCE)
  • Moneses uniflora (One-flower wintergreen, E)
  • Orthilia secunda (One-sided pyrola, SCE)
  • Rhododendron groenlandicum (Labrador tea, T) (ethnobotany under synonyms)
  • Vaccinium myrtilloides (Velvetleaf blueberry, E, berries)
  • Vaccinium vitis-idaea ssp. minus (Mountain cranberry, SCE)
• Fabaceae (Host to Callophrys irus)
  • Desmodium cuspidatum
  • Desmodium glabellum
  • Desmodium sessilifolium
  • Lespedeza repens (Creeping bush-clover, SC)
  • Phaseolus polystachios var. polystachios (Wild kidney bean, SCE)
  • Senna hebecarpa (supposed to be especially good for ecology)