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Buckeye Butterfly
The Buckeye Butterfly, Junonia, likes open areas with low vegetation and some bare soil. Junonia are commonly known as Buckeyes, Pansies, or Commodores.
Host Plants for Buckeye Caterpillar: Plants from the Plantain family (Plantaginaceae), including Angelonia (Angelonia), snapdragon (Antirrhinum), toadflax (Linaria), and plantains (Plantago); and the Acanthus family including ruellia (Ruellia). Drummond's ruellia or Drummond's wild petunia (Ruellia drummondiana) is a Texas native that will host the larvae of the Buckeye Butterfly. LBJWC
Once the larvae have formed a chrysalis and matured it will emerge as a butterfly seeking nectar plants. Favorite nectar sources are composites including asters, chickory, gumweed, knapweed, and tickseed sunflowers.