Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Red Admiral Spotting, 1 by beckygardener

beckygardener wrote:
Paige - You are correct about us having this discussion before and I DO have frogfruit in my yard. And yes, I remember that's why I thought I had a lot of hairstreaks in my yard because the frogfruit is an invasive weed in my yard. One man's weed another man's host plant. LOL (I was thinking frogfruit was something else until you posted your photo.)

I think that the Parietaria floridana - Florida Pellitory issue was brought up by tropicalkaren or someone else in Florida. Because I vaguely remember a short discussion about it on an older thread and it is also considered a weed in Florida. She was looking for host plants to attract the Red Admirals and we talked about the pellitory. I am going to take a photo of what I think is Pellitory in my yard. This is a very delicate plant. When I weed them from my garden it wilts very quickly. It grows underneath all my garden plants and likes shady areas. I remember Karen or whoever had wanted me to send her some. At the time I had already weeded my garden and didn't have any. But I don't think it would transplant well because any disturbance around it seems to kill it. I wouldn't even know where to look for seeds on it. It's a rapid spreader. But I'm not against trying to figure out how to harvest this plant if it does attract Red Admirals. Apparently it is a Florida native plant. And it doesn't have any stinging parts on it, quite the contrary.

This message was edited Jan 15, 2007 9:03 AM