Caterpillar host plants
Caterpillars eat the leaves of host plants; adults drink nectar from many flowers. Caterpillars also feed nesting birds. NC Native Plant Society: butterfly gardening
34 native plants in Alabama. 2 not suggested for gardens
- Azure AsterSymphyotrichum oolentangiense
- Kral's AsterSymphyotrichum kralii
- Narrowleaf Smooth AsterSymphyotrichum concinnum
- Savannah AsterSymphyotrichum chapmanii
- Symphyotrichum adnatumSymphyotrichum adnatum
- Symphyotrichum laeve var. purpuratumSymphyotrichum attenuatum
- Symphyotrichum priceaeSymphyotrichum priceae
- White Panicled Aster; Eastern Lined AsterSymphyotrichum lanceolatum var. latifolium
- Annual Saltmarsh AsterSymphyotrichum subulatum
- Aromatic AsterSymphyotrichum oblongifolium
- Bottomland AsterSymphyotrichum ontarionis
- Bushy AsterSymphyotrichum dumosum
- Calico AsterSymphyotrichum lateriflorum
- Crooked-stem AsterSymphyotrichum prenanthoides
- Eastern Silvery AsterSymphyotrichum concolor
- Elliott's AsterSymphyotrichum elliottii
- Frost AsterSymphyotrichum pilosum
- Georgia AsterSymphyotrichum georgianum
- Hairy Heart Leaf AsterSymphyotrichum drummondii
- Heartleaf AsterSymphyotrichum cordifolium
- Late Purple AsterSymphyotrichum patens
- New England AsterSymphyotrichum novae-angliae
- Perennial Saltmarsh AsterSymphyotrichum tenuifolium
- Purple Stem Aster; Swamp Aster; Bristly AsterSymphyotrichum puniceum var. puniceum
- Short's AsterSymphyotrichum shortii
- Small White AsterSymphyotrichum racemosum
- Smooth Blue AsterSymphyotrichum laeve
- Thinleaf Late Purple AsterSymphyotrichum phlogifolium
- Wavyleaf AsterSymphyotrichum undulatum
- White Arrowleaf AsterSymphyotrichum urophyllum
- White Heath AsterSymphyotrichum ericoides
- Willowleaf AsterSymphyotrichum praealtum
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Native here, not suggested for gardens
- Barrens Silky Aster Symphyotrichum pratense Rare or protected plant
- Simmonds's Aster Symphyotrichum simmondsii Rare or protected plant
Matched by plant genus. Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, ZooKeys 1261
Also on these plants
None of the other listed species.