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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
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| 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 | |
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