There are two types of plants :      1. Host Plants             2. Nectarine plants

1. Host Plants :

Host Plants : Host plants are the plants on which the Butterflies of a particular species lay eggs. There is a correlation between the plants and the butterflies. They are used by Butterflies to lay eggs and the caterpillars feed on the leaves and pupate and butterfly emerge.

English Name of Plant	Local Name of Plant	Scientific Name of Plant	Butterfly Name
Touch-me-not	Lajalu	Mimosa	Common Grass Yellow
Lemon	Limbu	Citrus	Common Mormon , Lime Butterfly and other Swallow tail Butterflies
Curry Leaf	Kadipatta	Murraya	Common Mormon  and other butterflies
Leaf of life	Panphutti	Bryophyullum	Red Pierrot Butterfly
False ashoka	Ashok	Polyalthia	Tailed Jay butterfly
Milkweed	Rui	Calotropis	Plain Tiger and Crow Butterfly
Palm Trees			Skipper Butterfly
Custard apple	Sitaphal	Annona squamosa	Guava Blue and other Blue Butterflies
Gardenia	Anant Chafa		Guava Blue and other Blue Butterflies and Humming Bee Moths
Guava	Peru	Psidium guajava	Guava Blue Butterfly
Butterfly Ginger Lily	Sontaka	Hedychium coronarium	Grass Demon Butterfly
Wild Turmeric	Jungli Halad	Cucurma	Grass Demon Butterfly
Golden Shower Tree	Amaltas	Cassia fitsula	Emmigrant Butterfly
Plumbago	Chitrak	Plumbago	Zebra Butterfly
Passion Fruit	Krushnakamal		Tawny coster butterfly
Yellow Alder		Turnera ulmifolia	Tawny coster butterfly
Cycas Palm			Plains Cupid Butterfly
Wild Ixora			Monkey Puzzel Butterfly
Castor	Earendel		Castor Butterfly

Frangipane – many moths use them as food plants

2. Nectarine plants :
Nectarine Plants: Ideally all flowers in bunches attract butterflies, so that butterflies don’t have to jump to a new flower for sipping nectar, which needs in lots of energy. Note: Zhandu’s single flower (Asteraceae family) is also equivalent to a bunch of flowers. The flowers of this plants are used by Butterflies to sip nectar. It is not specific to Butterfly species.

Plants
English Name	Local Name	Scientific    Name	Remarks
Coat Buttons	Khal-muriya	Tridax Procubens	Very Common , grows wild along road side
Jungle geranium	Rugmini	Ixora	Red Bunches of flowers on shrubs
Star flower		Pentas	Pink flowers are favorite . Penk , Red and many colors available
Chaste Tree	Nirgudi	Vitex Negundo	A small tree with violet color spikes , usually seen on fences
Fountain Bush Tree	Bharangi	Cleodandrum	A small tree with violet color  fountain shaped  flower bunch
Wild Basil	Sabja and Tulsi	Ocimum	Many humming bees sip nectars . Also seen parakeets eating the flowers n seeds in summers as coolants.
Sorrowless tree	Sita Ashok	Saraca Asoca	Orange/Red Colored Flower Bunches appear on medium sized tree
Lantana	Ghaneri	Lantana Camara	Pink flowers are favorite
Scorpion weed	Bhurundi	Heliotropium Indicum	The flowers are use to sip nectar in addition to this the milky extract from this plant are also preferred by the tiger butterflies.
Silver Cockscomb	Kurdu	Celosia Argentea	Butterflies and Birds love them
Periwinkle	Sadafhuli	Pervinca rosea	Even big swallowtails like Peacocks love nectaring
Marigold	Jhendu	Asteraceae	All Asteraceae Family flowers are actually fused bunch of small flowers.
Blue snakeweed	Kariyuttarani	Stachytarpheta jamaicensis	Awesome plant – lots of butterflies and sun birds come to sip nectar
Orange Jasmine	Kunti/Kamini	Murraya paniculata	The white flower attracts moths and small butterflies , but are also see attracting big butterflies like Gaudy Baron.
Lia			These flowers attract lots of butterflies which are wildly grown , found at Forest edges