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Nectar Plants for Bartram's Scrub-Hairstreak, by Linda Evans, with photos by Hank Poor Photo by Linda Evans
Most butterfliers know that the Bartram's Scrub-Hairstreak is an unusual, scarce butterfly limited to disappearing pinelands in South Florida. Its host plant, Pineland Croton (Croton linearis), often has this small butterfly nectaring on its small, frilly flowers. Pineland Croton
The Bartram's also uses nectar plants that are close to its host plant. Several of them can be: Spanish Needles, Bidens alba var radiata False Buttonweed, Spermacoce verticillata
Photo by Hank Poor Snow squarestem, Melanthera nivea Florida Whitetop, Rhychospora floridensis Blodgett's Swallowwort, Cynachum blodgettii Florida Privet, Forestiera segregata Sometimes you have to look closely just as Dr. Robert M. Pyle is doing. He will be our keynote speaker for Butterfly Days at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in September 2010.
For more information on these pineland plants, read Roger M. Hammer's book, Florida Keys Wildflowers.
What plants have you seen the Bartram's nectaring on? Let us know.
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