Costa Hummingbird on a Saliva clevelandii Alpine. Native plants support native birds and butterflies.

Las Pilitas Nursery

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Santa Margarita, CA 93453

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Chlosyne gabbii, Gabb's Checkerspot

Gabb's Checkerspot is native from Central California down into Baja California. There are many forms of this butterfly, some range up into Canada and east to the Rockies.
Host plants include; (Hazardia) Haplopappus squarrosus, Corethrogyne filaginifolia,  Erigeron glaucus.
Gabbs Checkerspot Butterfly - grid24_12
Gabbs Checkerspot - grid24_12
Gabb'scheckerspot, Chlosyne gabbii on a Eriodictyon tomentosum, Woolly Yerba Santa - grid24_12
Chlosyne gabbii female - grid24_12
Chlosyne gabbii female