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Butterflies and Moths of North America
Butterflies and Moths of North America is a searchable database of verified butterfly and moth records in the United States and Mexico. This site includes dynamic distribution maps, photographs, species accounts, and species checklists for each county in the U.S. and each state in Mexico.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Ceanothus sanguineus | Redstem Ceanothus Oregon Tea-tree Wild Lilac | |
| Chenopodium album | Lambsquarters | |
| Chiococca alba | Snowberry West Indian Milkberry David's Milkberry Cahinca West Indian Snowberry Milkberry | |
| Chelone glabra | White Turtlehead | |
| Chionanthus virginicus | White Fringetree Fringe Tree Snowflower Tree Flowering Ash Old Man's Beard Grandfather Graybeard Grancy Graybeard | |
| Cirsium discolor | Field Thistle | |
| Cirsium horridulum | Bristle Thistle Yellow Thistle Horrid Thistle Purple Thistle Spiny Thistle Bull Thistle | |
| Cirsium muticum | Swamp Thistle | |
| Cirsium pitcheri | Sand Dune Thistle | |
| Cornus alternifolia | Alternateleaf Dogwood Alternate-leaf Dogwood Pagoda Dogwood | |
| Corylus cornuta | Beaked Hazelnut Beaked Filbert | |
| Cornus florida | Flowering Dogwood Virginia Dogwood Florida Dogwood White Cornel Arrowwood American Boxwood False Box St. Peter's Crown Corona De San Pedro | |
| Coursetia glandulosa | Coursetia Rosary Baby-bonnets Rosary Babybonnets | |
| Condalia hookeri | Bluewood Condalia Brasil Brasilwood Bluewood Logwood Purple Haw Capul Negro | |
| Comptonia peregrina | Sweet-fern Sweetfern | |
| Cornus racemosa | Gray Dogwood | |
| Cornus rugosa | Roundleaf Dogwood | |
| Cornus sericea | Red Osier Dogwood Red Osier Red-twig Dogwood | |
| Condalia spathulata | Knifeleaf Condalia | |
| Comandra umbellata | Bastard Toadflax | |
| Condalia viridis | Green Snakewood Green Condalia | |
| Croton capitatus | Hogwort Texas Goatweed | |
| Crataegus douglasii | Black Hawthorn | |
| Cyperus esculentus | Yellow Nutsedge Chufa Sedge Yellow Nut-grass | |
| Danthonia spicata | Poverty Oatgrass Poverty Wild Oat Grass Curly Grass | |
| Desmodium canadense | Showy Tick Trefoil | |
| Deschampsia cespitosa | Tufted Hairgrass Tufted Hair Grass | |
| Desmodium glutinosum | Pointedleaf Ticktrefoil | |
| Dicliptera brachiata | Branched Foldwing Branched Dicliptera | |
| Diapensia lapponica | Pincushion Plant Diapensia | |
| Distichlis spicata | Saltgrass Coastal Salt Grass Inland Salt-grass | |
| Diospyros texana | Texas Persimmon Mexican Persimmon Black Persimmon Chapote Chapote Prieto | |
| Dicentra uniflora | Longhorn Steer's-head | |
| Diospyros virginiana | Common Persimmon Eastern Persimmon Possumwood Date Plum Winter Plum Jove's Fruit | |
| Dryas integrifolia | Entireleaf Mountain-avens | |
| Dryas octopetala | Eightpetal Mountain-avens Eight-petal Mountain-avens White Mountain-avens Mountain Dryas | |
| Eleocharis elliptica | Elliptic Spikerush | |
| Empetrum nigrum | Black Crowberry | |
| Epigaea repens | Trailing Arbutus Mayflower Plymouth Mayflower | |
| Eriogonum abertianum | Abert's Buckwheat Abert's Wild Buckwheat | |
| Eriogonum fasciculatum | Eastern Mojave Buckwheat Eastern Mojave Wild Buckwheat California Buckwheat Flattop Buckwheat Flat-top Buckwheat | |
| Eriogonum giganteum | St. Catherine's Lace | |
| Eriogonum nudum | Naked Buckwheat Nakedstem Buckwheat | |
| Erigeron philadelphicus | Philadelphia Fleabane Fleabane Daisy | |
| Eriogonum umbellatum | Sulphur-flower Buckwheat Sulphur-flower Wild Buckwheat Sulphur Buckwheat Sulphur-flower | |
| Eriogonum wrightii | Wright's Buckwheat Bastard-sage Wild Buckwheat Perennial Buckwheat Shrubby Buckwheat Shrubby Bastard-sage | |
| Eugenia axillaris | White Stopper | |
| Eurybia macrophylla | Bigleaf Aster Large-leaf Wood-aster | |
| Fagus grandifolia | American Beech White Beech Red Beech Ridge Beech Beechnut Tree | |
| Festuca idahoensis | Idaho Fescue Bunchgrass Fescue Blue Bunchgrass | |
| Fraxinus albicans | Texas Ash Mountain Ash | |
| Fraxinus americana | White Ash American Ash Cane Ash Smallseed White Ash Biltmore White Ash Biltmore Ash | |
| Fraxinus greggii | Gregg's Ash Gregg Ash Littleleaf Ash Dogleg Ash Escobilla Barreta China | |
| Fraxinus pennsylvanica | Green Ash Red Ash Swamp Ash River Ash Water Ash Darlington Ash | |
| Fragaria virginiana | Virginia Strawberry Wild Strawberry | |
| Gaultheria hispidula | Creeping Snowberry Creeping-snowberry | |
| Glycyrrhiza lepidota | American Licorice Wild Licorice | |
| Gleditsia triacanthos | Honey Locust Common Honey Locust Thorny Common Honey Locust Honey Shucks Locust Sweet Locust Thorny Locust Honey Shucks Sweet Bean Tree | |
| Gymnocladus dioicus | Kentucky Coffeetree Stump Tree | |
| Hamelia patens | Scarletbush Firebush Hummingbird Bush Scarlet Bush Redhead | |
| Helianthus argophyllus | Silverleaf Sunflower | |
| Helianthus decapetalus | Thinleaf Sunflower Ten-petaled Sunflower Thin-leaved Sunflower Pale Sunflower | |
| Horkelia fusca | Pinewoods Horkelia | |
| Humulus lupulus | Common Hop | |
| Humulus lupulus var. lupuloides | Common Hop | |
| Hydrangea arborescens | Smooth Hydrangea Wild Hydrangea Sevenbark | |
| Hybanthus verticillatus | Babyslippers Nodding Green Violet Green Violet | |
| Ilex mucronata | Catberry | |
| Juniperus californica | California Juniper Desert White Cedar | |
| Juglans microcarpa | Little Walnut Texas Walnut Texas Black Walnut River Walnut Nogalito Nogalillo Namboca | |
| Kalmia angustifolia | Sheep Laurel Lambkill Kalmia Lambkill | |
| Kalmia latifolia | Mountain Laurel Calico Bush Kalmia Mountain-laurel | |
| Laportea canadensis | Canadian Woodnettle Wood Nettle | |
| Larix laricina | Tamarack American Larch Hacmatack Black Larch | |
| Leptochloa dubia | Green Sprangletop | |
| Leucophyllum frutescens | Cenizo Purple Sage Texas Ranger Texas Barometer Bush Texas Silverleaf Texas Sage Silverleaf | |
| Ledum groenlandicum | Bog Labrador Tea Rusty Labrador Tea Labrador Tea Hudson's Bay Tea Muskeg Tea | |
| Lespedeza hirta | Hairy Lespedeza | |
| Leersia oryzoides | Rice Cutgrass Rice Cut Grass | |
| Leersia virginica | Whitegrass | |
| Lippia alba | Bushy Lippia | |
| Lindera benzoin | Northern Spicebush Spicebush Wild Allspice | |
| Liriodendron tulipifera | Tulip Tree Tulip Poplar Yellow Poplar | |
| Lotus scoparius | Common Deerweed Deerweed | |
| Lonicera sempervirens | Coral Honeysuckle Trumpet Honeysuckle Woodbine | |
| Lupinus perennis | Sundial Lupine Wild Lupine | |
| Lupinus texensis | Texas Bluebonnet Bluebonnet Texas Lupine Buffalo Clover Wolf Flower | |
| Maurandella antirrhiniflora | Snapdragon Vine Roving Sailor Climbing Snapdragon Little Snapdragon Vine | |
| Malpighia glabra | Barbados Cherry Wild Crapemyrtle Acerola Manzanita | |
| Manfreda maculosa | False Aloe Spice Lily Spice-lily | |
| Magnolia virginiana | Sweetbay Sweetbay Magnolia Southern Sweetbay Swampbay Swamp Magnolia Sweet Magnolia Small Magnolia Laurel Magnolia White Bay White Laurel Swamp Laurel Beaver Tree | |
| Mimulus ringens | Allegheny Monkeyflower Square-stemmed Monkeyflower Square-stem Monkeyflower | |
| Mimulus ringens var. ringens | Allegheny Monkeyflower | |
| Morella californica | Pacific Wax Myrtle California Wax Myrtle Pacific Bayberry California Bayberry | |
| Morella cerifera | Wax Myrtle Southern Wax Myrtle Southern Bayberry Eastern Bayberry Bayberry Candleberry Tallow Shrub | |
| Morella pensylvanica | Northern Bayberry Candleberry | |
| Muhlenbergia emersleyi | Bullgrass Bull Muhly | |
| Nolina texana | Texas Sacahuista Texas Beargrass Basket Grass Sacahuista Bunchgrass Texas Bear-grass | |
| Passiflora affinis | Bracted Passionflower Passion Flower | |
| Paspalum distichum | Knotgrass | |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
