There has been a significant increase in recent years of nurseries offering and emphasizing native plants for gardens. One of the best of these is
Prairie Moon Nursery, based in Winona, Minnesota. We have purchased seed packets from them for several years, and when their catalogue arrived yesterday [as archetypal springtime garden porn] I was delighted to see that they now incorporate into the catalogue the names and photos of the lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) that use these plants as
host plants (i.e. as depositories for eggs and thus food for the caterpillars - as opposed to nectar plants supporting adult pollinators). Here is a sample page:
Some of this information is also codified in a massive table to big to embed -
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