Plants for a California or Western Butterfly Garden
This
page shows which California
butterflies use which California
native plants. To get more details on a plant or for ordering
information just click on the plant links. Plant sites give
growing requirements pictures and prices.( If there is no link on
the plant it is because we do not carry it.) To get more detailed
information on butterflies and for scientific names, click on the
butterfly links. If there is no link on a butterfly it is because
they have not bee written yet. Sorry.
To reference plants by the butterflies that use them go to the Main Butterfly page and click on the butterfly you wish to look up. Each page has larval and adult food plant information and butterfly pictures.
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Laviana Skipper |
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Hairstreaks |
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Gray Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Echo Blue Butterfly |
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Spring Azure Butterfly |
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Bauer's Giant Skipper |
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Stephens's Giant Skipper |
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Allie's Giant Skipper |
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Althaea rosea |
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Amaranthus sp. |
Common Sooty-wing Butterfly |
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Common Sooty-wing Butterfly |
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Southern Dog-face Butterfly |
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Common Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Silver-spotted skipper |
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Common Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Northern Cloudy-wing Butterfly |
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Silver-spotted skipper |
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Andropogon scoparius |
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Miriam's Skipper |
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Antirrhinum majus |
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Mustard White Butterfly |
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Sara Orange-tip Butterfly |
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Boisduval's Marble Butterfly |
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Edwards's Marble Butterfly |
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Large Marble Butterfly |
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California White Butterfly |
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Arabis glabra |
Boisduval's Marble butterfly |
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Arabis holboelii |
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Edwards's Marble Butterfly |
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Arabis perennans |
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Boisduval's Marble butterfly |
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Western Brown Elfin |
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Doudoroff's Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Arceuthobium sp |
Nelson's Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Arceuthobium campylopodium |
Muir's Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Muir's Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Pipe-vine Swallowtail Butterfly |
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Baird's Swallowtail Butterfly |
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Ruddy Copper Butterfly |
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Artemisia rothrockii |
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Aclepias albicans |
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Many California Moths |
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Aster sp. |
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Northern Pearl Crescent Butterfly |
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Aster californicus |
Field Crescent Butterfly |
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Northern Checkerspot Butterfly |
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Aster conspicuus |
Hoffmann's Checkerspot Butterfly |
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Aster hesperius |
Field Crescent Butterfly |
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Astragalus Spp. |
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Alexandra Sulfur Butterfly |
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Arrowhead Blue Butterfly |
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Edwards's Sulfur Butterfly |
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Golden Sulfur Butterfly |
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Palo Verdes Blue Butterfly |
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Marine Blue Butterfly |
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Melissa Blue butterfly |
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Northern cloudy-wing Butterfly |
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Western Sulfur Butterfly |
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Western Tailed Blue Butterfly |
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Astragalus douglasii |
Harford's Sulfur Butterfly |
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Mojave Sooty-wing Butterfly |
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Alpheus Sooty wing Butterfly |
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Pygmy Blue Butterfly |
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San Emigdio Blue Butterfly |
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Atriplex hastata |
Pygmy Blue Butterfly |
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Pygmy Blue Butterfly |
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MacNeill's Sooty-wing Butterfly |
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Atriplex semibaccata |
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Pygmy Blue Butterfly |
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Fatal Metalmark Butterfly |
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Dusky Metalmark Butterfly |
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Bidens pilosa |
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Dainty Sulfur Butterfly |
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Brassica spp. |
Becker's White Butterfly |
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Western White Butterfly |
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Large Marble Butterfly |
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Sara Orange-tip Butterfly |
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Imperial Checkerspot Butterfly |
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Betula fontinalis |
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Blues |
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Hairstreaks |
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Calocedrus Decurrens |
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Clench's Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Umber Skipper |
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Harbison's Skipper |
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Mexican Yellow Butterfly |
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Nicippe Yellow Butterfly |
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Cloudless Sulfur Butterfly |
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Large Orange Sulfur Butterfly |
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Mexican Sulfur Butterfly |
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Nicippe Sulfur Butterfly |
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Sleepy Orange Butterfly |
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Leanira Checkerspot Butterfly |
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Northern Checkerspot Butterfly |
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Ceanothus Spp. |
Artful Duskywing Butterfly |
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Western Brown Elfin Butterfly |
Doudoroff's Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Echo Blue Butterfly |
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Hedge-row Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Pale Swallowtail Butterfly |
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Southern Buckthorn Butterfly |
Pacuvius Dusky-wing Butterfly |
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Spring Azure Butterfly |
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Pacuvius Dusky-wing Butterfly |
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Pale Swallowtail Butterfly |
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Hedge Row Hairstreak Butterfly |
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California Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Ceanothus incanus |
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Pale Swallowtail Butterfly |
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Pacuvius Dusky-wing Butterfly |
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California Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Grey Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Snout Butterfly |
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Gray Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Chenopodium sp. |
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Common Sooty-wing Butterfly |
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Chenopodium album |
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Pygmy Sooty-wing Butterfly |
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Western Brown Elfin Butterfly |
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Doudoroff's Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Northern Checkerspot Butterfly |
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Skippers |
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Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus |
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Acastus Checkerspot Butterfly |
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Mylitta Crescent Butterfly |
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Thistle Crescent Butterfly |
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Orseis Crescent Butterfly |
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Editha Checkerspot Butterfly |
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Gabb's Checkerspot Butterfly |
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Echo Blue Butterfly |
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Spring Azure Butterfly |
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Echo Blue Butterfly |
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Spring Azure Butterfly |
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Wind's Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Cuscuta Sp. |
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Western Elfin Butterfly |
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Doudoroff's Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Ines Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Muir's Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Southern Dog-face Butterfly |
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Lindsey's Skipper |
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Columbian Skipper |
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Umber Skipper |
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Descurainia sp |
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Edwards's Marble Butterfly |
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Large Marble Butterfly |
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Sara Orange-tip Butterfly |
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Felder's Orange-tip Butterfly |
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Descurainia richardsonii |
Edwards's Marble Butterfly |
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Diascia vigilis |
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Clodius Parnassian Butterfly |
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Clodius Parnassian Butterfly |
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Dicentra pausiflora |
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Sandhill Skipper |
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Wandering Skipper |
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Eunus Skipper |
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Gray Blue Butterfly |
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Arctic Blue Butterfly |
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Sonora Blue Butterfly |
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Human Folly Butterfly |
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Woodland Skipper |
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Fatal Metalmark Butterfly |
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Monarch Butterfly |
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Dusky Metalmark Butterfly |
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California Dog-face Butterfly |
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Gorgon Copper Butterfly |
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Mormon Metalmark Butterfly |
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Mournful dusky-wing Butterfly |
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Green Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Gray Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Lupine Blue Butterfly |
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Eriogonum incanum |
Lembert's Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Mormon Metalmark Butterfly |
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Mormon Metalmark Butterfly |
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Green Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Eriogonum microthecum |
Elvira's Blue Butterfly |
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Mormon Metalmark Butterfly |
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Gorgon Copper Butterfly |
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El Segundo Blue Butterfly |
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Eriogonum plumatella |
Elvira's Blue Butterfly |
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Eriogonum pusillum |
Mojave Blue Butterfly |
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Eriogonum reniforme |
Mojave Blue Butterfly |
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Small Blue Butterfly |
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Eriogonum spp. |
Gray Hairstreak |
Bramble Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Comstock's Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Common Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Gorgon Copper Butterfly |
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Blue Copper Butterfly |
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Lupine Blue Butterfly |
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Square-spotted Blue Butterfly |
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Dotted Blue Butterfly |
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Mojave Blue Butterfly |
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Edward's Blue Butterfly |
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Mormon Metalmark Butterfly |
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Elvira's Blue Butterfly |
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Bernardino Blue Butterfly |
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California Green Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Lupine Blue Butterfly |
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Eriogonum wrightii |
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Mormon Metalmark Butterfly |
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Veined Blue Butterfly |
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Large Marble Butterfly |
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Sonora Skipper |
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Lindsey's Skipper |
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Two-tailed Swallowtail Butterfly |
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Melissa Blue Butterfly |
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Glycyrrhiza lepidota |
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Gnaphalium sp |
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Siva Hairstreak |
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Helianthus annuus |
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Bordered Patch Butterfly |
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Common Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Powdered Skipper |
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Horkelia bolanderi |
Rural Skipper |
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Horkelia fusca |
Edith's Copper Butterfly |
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Rural Skipper |
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Horkelia tenuiloba |
Edith's Copper Butterfly |
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Becker's White Butterfly |
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Skinner's Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Muir's Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Leda Hairstreak |
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Juniperus osteosperma |
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Siva Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Clench's Hairstreak |
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Columbian Skipper |
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Marine Blue Butterfly |
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Northern Blue Butterfly |
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Western Tailed Blue Butterfly |
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Silvery Blue Butterfly |
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Edwards's Marble Butterfly |
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Western White Butterfly |
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Variegated Fritillary Butterfly |
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Edward's Swallowtail Butterfly |
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Lotus sp |
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Eastern tailed Blue Butterfly |
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Greenish blue Butterfly |
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Northern Blue Butterfly |
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Northern Cloudy-wing Butterfly |
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Western Tailed Blue Butterfly |
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Lotus argophyllum |
Avalon Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Lotus crassifolius |
Silver-spotted Skipper |
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Afranius Dusky-wing Butterfly |
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Blues |
Clouded Sulfur Butterfly |
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Bramble Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Avalon Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Marine Blue Butterfly |
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Funereal Duskywing Butterfly |
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Southern Blue Butterfly |
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California Green Hairstreak Butterfly |
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Icarioides Blue Butterfly |
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Arrowhead Blue Butterfly |
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