Carpenter Bee      Tropical Buckeye<      Gulf Fitillary      Large Orange Sulphur      Longtailed Skipper

Very attractive to bees, butterflies and hummingbirds.

Dry, semiarid and humid zones. Disturbed soils, roads, trails, cropland, pastureland and abandoned land.

Very High: after hurricane, existing plants regenerated quickly; new plants emerged in a matter of days; provided pollen/nectar to a large variety of pollinators.

Also know as light-blue snakeweed. The Caribbean or Tropical Buckeye, Junonia evarete, uses Blue Porterweed, Stachytarpheta jamaicensis (pictured above) as its main larval foodplant.