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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 | Indian mallow Pelotazo Shrubby Indian mallow | |
| Acacia angustissima | Prairie acacia Fern acacia Prairie wattle Whiteball acacia | |
| Acacia berlandieri | Guajillo Berlandier acacia Thornless Catclaw Mimosa Catclaw Round-flowered Catclaw Huajillla Matoral | |
| Acer circinatum | Oregon vine maple Vine maple | |
| Acer negundo | Ash-leaf maple Ash-leaved maple Box elder Boxelder Fresno de guajuco | |
| Actaea racemosa var. racemosa | Black cohosh Black bugbane Bugbane Black snakeroot Fairy candles | |
| Acer rubrum | Red maple Scarlet 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 | |
| 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 | Chisos Mountain false Indianmallow Chisos Mtn. False Indian-mallow Velvet-leaf Mallow | |
| Alnus incana ssp. rugosa | Speckled 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 | |
| Angelica atropurpurea | Purplestem angelica | |
| Andropogon gerardii | Big 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 Dogbane Hemp 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 | Spider milkweed Antelope horns Green-flowered milkweed Spider 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 paw paw Indian banana | |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly milkweed Orange milkweed Pleurisy root | |
| Asclepias verticillata | Whorled milkweed Eastern whorled milkweed | |
| Atriplex canescens | Chamiso Four-wing saltbush Fourwing saltbush Wingscale | |
| Atriplex lentiformis | Big saltbush Coastal quail bush Quailbush Saltbush | |
| Bacopa monnieri | Coastal Water-hyssop Herb-of-grace 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 | |
| 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 | Locust Berry Long Key locustberry | |
| Carex bigelowii | Bigelow's sedge | |
| Carpinus caroliniana | American hornbeam Blue 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 | Poppy mallow Purple poppymallow White poppy mallow White winecup Winecup | |
| Carex lacustris | Hairy sedge Lakebank sedge | |
| Cassiope mertensiana | Western moss heather Western moss-heather | |
| Calamagrostis purpurascens | Purple reedgrass | |
| Castanea pumila | Chinkapin Allegheny chinquapin Allegheny-chinkapin Chinquapin | |
| Campsis radicans | Trumpet creeper Trumpet vine Common trumpet creeper Cow vine | |
| 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 | Mountain whitethorn Snow bush Whitethorn ceanothus | |
| Ceanothus cuneatus | Buckbrush | |
| Ceanothus fendleri | Fendler ceanothus Fendler's ceanothus | |
| Ceanothus herbaceus | Redroot Prairie redroot Jersey tea Inland Ceanothus Fuzzy Ceanothus | |
| Celtis laevigata | Sugar hackberry Hackberry Sugarberry Texas sugarberry Palo blanco | |
| Celtis lindheimeri | Lindheimer's hackberry Lindheimer hackberry | |
| Cercocarpus montanus | Alderleaf mountain mahogany Alder-leaf mountain-mahogany Mountain mahogany Silverleaf mountain mahogany | |
| Celosia nitida | West Indian cock's comb | |
| Celtis occidentalis | Common hackberry Nettle tree | |
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