Butterfly Garden by Mike MacDonald

White Clover

[White Clover picture] White Clover is a host plant for the Cloudy Wing Skippers and Orange and Clouded Sulphurs. It is a nectar source for Viceroys and Silvery Blues. A tea made from the flowers is used by Natives for coughs and fevers and in Europe it has been used to treat rheumatism and gout.


Butterfly Plants
Agastache | Aster | Borage | Calendula
Centaurea | Cosmos | Echinacea | Hesperis
Lupine | Marigold | Mexican Sunflower | Parsley
Red Clover | Violet | White Clover | Yarrow

The Butterflies
Black Swallowtail | Cabbage White | Monarch
Mourning Cloak | Red Admiral | Silver Skipper | Silvery Blue
Skipper | Sulphur | Tawny Crescent | Tiger Swallowtail | Vanessa | White Admiral

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