Caterpillar Food Plants on our property

In addition to our Dorrigo property foodplants listed below there is an informative booklet, Butterfly Host Plants of South-east Queensland and Northern New South Wales, compiled by John T. Moss for the Butterfly & Other Invertebrates Club Inc. (BOIC). This booklet contains a lot of butterfly food plant information.

If you wish to purchase native food plants for your garden local native nursery's are:

Boggy Creek Natives - Colin Broadfoot (Phone 0409 599 090)

John Ross (Phone  6655 2249 or 0427 071 354)  

These nurserymen have stalls at the Bellingen Markets and the Bellingen Plant Fairs.  

John Ross also owns the Alternative Bookshop in Bellingen where Butterfly reference books can be purchased.

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Dorrigo Plateau Butterfly Food Plants

This is a list of the Dorrigo Plateau butterfly food plants growing on our property. They are divided into  three categories: natives found here naturally (Local Natives), natives from elsewhere (Introduced Natives - that we have planted here) and finally non native species.  The food plants listed on the individual page for each relevant butterfly species may include plants that do not grow naturally on the Plateau where the butterfly is migratory and has traveled far from its natural breeding area.

Skippers




​Local Natives
Acmena spp.
Argyrodendron actinophyllum
Brachychiton acerifolius
Callicoma serratifolia
Carex brunnea
Carex longebrachiata
Cryptocarya spp.
Endiandra crassiflora
Endiandra muelleri
Entolasia marginata
Gahnia aspera
Imperata cylindrica 
Litsea reticulata
Lomandra hystrix
Lomandra longifolia
Lomandra spicata
​Melicope hayesii
Microlaena stipoides
Neolitsea dealbata
Notelaea venosa
Oplismenus aemulus
Oplismenus imbecillus
Poaceae spp.
Syzygium smithii
  

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Introduced Natives
Alectryon spp.
Carex hubbardii   
Elaeocarpus grandis
​Eupomatia laurina
Gahnia clarkei
Gahnia sieberiana, 
Lophostemon confertus
Poa labillardierei
Scolopia braunii
   
Non Natives
Prunus spp.
Hibiscus spp.
Ehrharta erecta
Paspalum spp.

Swallowtails

​Local Natives
Cinnamomum oliveri
Cinnamomum virens
Clerodendrum tomentosum
Cryptocarya glaucescens
Cryptocarya meisneriana
Doryphora sassafras
Endiandra crassiflora
Endiandra muelleri
Litsea reticulata
Neolitsea dealbata
Pouteria australis  (Synonym Planchonella australis)

Introduced Natives
Citrus australasica
Cullen tenax
Cryptocarya obovata
Flindersia australis
Flindersia schottiana
Geijera salicifolia
Pararistolochia praevenosa
Philotheca myoporoides (Synonym Eriostemon)
Tasmannia insipidia

Non Natives
Citrus spp.
Choisya ternata
 

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Whites & Yellows

​Local Natives
Acacia melanoxylon
Mistletoes - Amyema spp. ; Dendrophthoe spp. ; Muellerina spp.

Introduced Natives
Breynia oblongifolia
Capparis arborea
Drypetes deplanchei
Senna acclinis


Non Natives
Brassicaceae spp. 
Phyllanthus

Non Local plants requiring a warmer climate - for some MIGRATORY butterflies
Capparis spp.
Cassia spp.
(Mistletoes)
Senna spp.
Senna aciphylla
Senna barclayana
Senna clavigera

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Nymphs


Local Natives
Argyrodendron actinophyllum - Black Booyong
Brachychiton acerifolius - Flame Tree
Carex longebrachiata
Gahnia aspera
Helichrysum
Marsdenia spp.
Mimosaceae spp.
Parsonsia spp.
Urtica incisa - Stinging Nettle

Native grasses
Poaceae spp.
Imperata cylindrica - Blady Grass
Microlaena stipoides - Weeping grass
Oplismenus spp. - Basket Grass
Poa tenera - Slender Tussock grass


Introduced Natives
Aphananthe philippinensis
Ehretia acuminata - Koda
Ficus spp.


Non Natives
*Asclepias spp. - Milkweed or Wild Cotton Bush
​*Robinia pseudoacacia
*Sida rhombifolia
*Urtica urens - Stinging Nettle
*Verbena
*Wisteria sp.

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Blues

Local Natives
Acacia melanoxylon
Acacia spp.
Alphitonia excelsa
Brachythiton acerifolius
Desmodium heterocarpon
Oxalis perennans ?


Introduced Natives
Alectryon
Atalaya spp.
Cullen
Cupaniopsis
Harpulia
Jagera pseudorhus
Macadamia spp.
Syzigium spp. 


Non Natives
*Cassia
*Lotus corniculatus - Bird's-foot Trefoil
*Plumbago auriculata - Plumbago​
*Robinia
*Sennas
*Wisteria
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