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Florida Butterfly Database Project including over 102 species of butterflies in Florida.
Sunshine State gardeners have rediscovered the Florida coontie (Figure 1) as a native plant well adapted to Florida yards. Its increased use in landscapes has encouraged the presence of the rare atala butterfly, which uses coontie as a larval host plant.aterpillars prefer to eat the young shoots of the coontie. One butterfly enthusiast (Kilmer 1993) suggested that 12 larvae are needed to establish a colony on one plant, and that eight or more large coonties (12â16 in. tall) are needed for the atala colony to survive.