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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 |
| Abutilon incanum | Pelotazo Indian Mallow Shrubby Indian Mallow | |
| Acaciella angustissima | Prairie Acacia Fern Acacia Whiteball Acacia Prairie Wattle White-ball Acacia | |
| Acer circinatum | Oregon Vine Maple Vine Maple | |
| Acer negundo | Box Elder Box Elder Maple Ash-leaved Maple Ashleaf Maple Red River Maple Fresno De Guajuco | |
| Actaea racemosa var. racemosa | Black Cohosh Black Bugbane Bugbane Black Snakeroot Fairy Candles | |
| Acer rubrum | Red Maple Scarlet Maple Soft Maple | |
| Acer saccharinum | Silver Maple Soft Maple White Maple | |
| Aesculus californica | California Buckeye | |
| Agave deserti | Desert Agave Desert Century Plant Century Plant | |
| Agave lechuguilla | Lechuguilla Tula Ixtle Maguey Lechuguilla Shindagger | |
| Agave palmeri | Palmer's Century Plant Palmer Agave Blue Century Plant | |
| Agave parryi | Parry's Agave Century Plant Parry Agave | |
| Agalinis paupercula var. borealis | Smallflower False Foxglove | |
| Agalinis paupercula var. paupercula | Smallflower False Foxglove | |
| Agave utahensis | Utah Agave | |
| Allowissadula holosericea | Velvet-leaf Mallow Chisos Mountain False Indianmallow | |
| Alnus incana ssp. rugosa | Speckled Alder Gray Alder Hoary Alder Swamp Alder | |
| Amelanchier alnifolia | Saskatoon Serviceberry Western Serviceberry Juneberry | |
| Amphicarpaea bracteata | American Hogpeanut | |
| Amorpha fruticosa | Indigo Bush False Indigo Bush False Indigo Desert False Indigo | |
| Ambrosia trifida | Great Ragweed Giant Ragweed | |
| Amaranthus tuberculatus | Roughfruit Amaranth Water Hemp | |
| Angelica atropurpurea | Purplestem Angelica | |
| Andropogon gerardii | Big Bluestem Tall Bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
| Annona glabra | Pond Apple | |
| Antennaria howellii ssp. neodioica | Howell's Pussytoes | |
| Anaphalis margaritacea | Western Pearly Everlasting Pearly-everlasting | |
| Antennaria parvifolia | Small-leaf Pussytoes Low Everlasting Nuttall's Pussytoes | |
| Anisacanthus quadrifidus var. wrightii | Flame Acanthus Hummingbird Bush Wright's Desert Honeysuckle Wright Acanthus Mexican Flame Wright's Mexican Flame | |
| Apios americana | Groundnut Wild Potato Indian Potato | |
| Apocynum androsaemifolium | Spreading Dogbane Bitterroot Flytrap Dogbane | |
| Apocynum cannabinum | Indian Hemp Prairie Dogbane Hemp Dogbane Dogbane | |
| Aquilegia brevistyla | Smallflower Columbine | |
| Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern Red Columbine Wild Red Columbine | |
| Aquilegia chrysantha var. hinckleyana | Hinckley's Golden Columbine Yellow Columbine Hinckley Columbine Capote Columbine | |
| Aristolochia californica | California Dutchman's Pipe | |
| Arabis ×divaricarpa | Spreadingpod Rockcress | |
| Aruncus dioicus | Bride's Feathers Goat's Beard | |
| Aristolochia erecta | Swanflower | |
| Arabis glabra | Tower Rockcress | |
| Arbutus menziesii | Pacific Madrone Oregon Laurel Laurelwood | |
| Arctostaphylos pungens | Pointleaf Manzanita Mexican Manzanita | |
| Artemisia tridentata | Big Sagebrush Great Basin Sagebrush | |
| Arctostaphylos uva-ursi | Kinnikinnick Red Bearberry Kinnikinnik | |
| Astragalus alpinus | Alpine Milkvetch | |
| Asclepias asperula | Antelope-horns Spider Milkweed Green-flowered Milkweed Spider Antelope-horns Antelope Horns | |
| Astragalus crassicarpus | Groundplum Milkvetch Ground Plum | |
| Astragalus drummondii | Drummond's Milkvetch | |
| Asclepias incarnata | Swamp Milkweed Pink Milkweed | |
| Asclepias ovalifolia | Oval-leaf Milkweed Dwarf Milkweed | |
| Asclepias speciosa | Showy Milkweed | |
| Asclepias sullivantii | Prairie Milkweed Sullivant's Milkweed Smooth Milkweed | |
| Asclepias syriaca | Common Milkweed | |
| Asimina triloba | Pawpaw Common Pawpaw Custard Apple Indian Banana Wild Banana | |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly Weed Butterfly Milkweed Orange Milkweed Pleurisy Root Chigger Flower Chiggerweed | |
| Asclepias verticillata | Whorled Milkweed Eastern Whorled Milkweed | |
| Atriplex canescens | Chamiso Four-wing Saltbush Wing-scale | |
| Atriplex lentiformis | Big Saltbush Quailbush Saltbush Coastal Quail Bush | |
| Bacopa monnieri | Herb-of-grace Water Hyssop Coastal Water-hyssop | |
| Baptisia tinctoria | Horseflyweed Yellow Wild Indigo | |
| Betula alleghaniensis var. alleghaniensis | Yellow Birch | |
| Betula lenta | Sweet Birch Cherry Birch Black Birch Mahogany Birch | |
| Betula papyrifera | Paper Birch Canoe Birch White Birch | |
| Betula populifolia | Gray Birch White Birch Aspen-leaved Birch | |
| Bidens alba | Common Beggarticks Shepherd's Needles Spanish Needles Butterfly Needles Hairy Beggarticks Romerillo | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats Grama Banderilla Banderita Navajita | |
| Boehmeria cylindrica | Smallspike False Nettle Bog Hemp | |
| Bouteloua gracilis | Blue Grama | |
| Bromus anomalus | Nodding Brome | |
| Brachyelytrum erectum | Bearded Shorthusk Longawn Woodgrass | |
| Bromus inermis | Smooth Brome | |
| Bursera simaruba | Gumbo Limbo Gumbo-limbo | |
| Byrsonima lucida | Long Key Locustberry Locust Berry | |
| Carex bigelowii | Bigelow's Sedge | |
| Carpinus caroliniana | American Hornbeam Blue Beech Water Beech Musclewood Ironwood | |
| Cardamine concatenata | Cutleaf Toothwort Pepper Root | |
| Camissonia contorta | Plains Evening-primrose | |
| Cardamine diphylla | Crinkleroot Two-leaved Toothwort Two-leaf Toothwort | |
| Castilleja integra | Wholeleaf Indian Paintbrush Squawfeather | |
| Callirhoe involucrata | Winecup Purple Poppy Mallow | |
| Callirhoe involucrata var. lineariloba | White Poppymallow Winecup Poppy Mallow White Winecup Purple Poppy Mallow | |
| Carex lacustris | Hairy Sedge Lakebank Sedge | |
| Cassiope mertensiana | Western Moss Heather Western Moss-heather | |
| Calamagrostis purpurascens | Purple Reedgrass | |
| Castanea pumila | Allegheny Chinquapin Allegheny Chinkapin Chinquapin Chinkapin | |
| Campsis radicans | Trumpet Creeper Trumpet Vine Common Trumpet Creeper Cow Vine Foxglove Vine Hellvine Devil's Shoestring | |
| Carex stricta | Upright Sedge Uptight Sedge Tussock Sedge | |
| Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey Tea Redroot | |
| Cercis canadensis var. mexicana | Mexican Redbud | |
| Cercis canadensis var. texensis | Texas Redbud | |
| Ceanothus cordulatus | Whitethorn Ceanothus Mountain Whitethorn Snow Bush | |
| Ceanothus cuneatus | Buckbrush | |
| Ceanothus fendleri | Fendler's Ceanothus Fendler Ceanothus | |
| Ceanothus herbaceus | Prairie Redroot Smaller Redroot Small Redroot Inland Ceanothus Fuzzy Ceanothus Jersey Tea Redroot | |
| Celtis laevigata | Sugar Hackberry Texas Sugarberry Sugarberry Southern Hackberry Lowland Hackberry Hackberry Palo Blanco | |
| Celtis lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Hackberry Lindheimer Hackberry | |
| Cercocarpus montanus | Alderleaf Mountain Mahogany Silverleaf Mountain Mahogany Mountain Mahogany | |
| Celosia nitida | West Indian Cock's Comb | |
| Celtis occidentalis | Common Hackberry Northern Hackberry American Hackberry Nettle Tree Beaverwood False Elm | |
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common Buttonbush Buttonbush Button Willow Honey Bells Honeybells Honey Balls Honeyballs Button-bush | |
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