What plant is this Texas edition

The game is find the mystery plants in the yard and I.D. them. I usually have the best luck with Dave's Garden.

Honeysuckle?

Mystery rose

Henbit - Lamium amplexicaule just a weed

Nandina Domestica Invasive

Chinese Privet, Ligustrum lucidum Invasive

False Garlic, Nothoscordum Bivalve

Large patch with another mystery plant

Hemlock? Poisonous!!!

 

So if we have poison hemlock in the WHOLE backyard what do we do?  Short of burn it I don't know yet.

Incomplete list of Butterflies

Texas has roughly 450 different types of butterflies depending on what sources you use.  This is not including moth species.  Florida has around 211 and I believe that is including moth species.  The United States has around 750 butterfly species and 11,000 moth species.  The following is a small sampling of the list my daughter started writing.  I think we will need to decide on a short list of host plants to start introducing.

The incomplete list

The Soldier-Danaus Erecimus
Larval food-Milkweed
Flight period-All year

Monarch-Danaus Plexippus
Larval food-Milkweed
Flight period-Spring to Winter

Gulf Fritillary-Agraulis Vanillae
Larval food-Passion flower vine-Passiflora
Flight period-All year

Zebra Longwing-Heliconius Charitonius
Larval food-Passion flower vine-Passiflora
Flight period-All year

Red Postman-Heliconiidae
Larval food-Passion flower vine-Passiflora
Flight period- All year

Golden-banded Skipper-Autochton Cellus
Larval food-Pea family
Flight period-May through August

Silver-spotted Skipper-Epargyreus Elarus
Larval food-Pea family
Flight period-May through September

Long-tailed Skipper-Urbanus Proteas
Larval food-Mallows
Flight period-All year

Marina Blue-Leptotes Marina
Larval food-Legumes/Fabaceae
Flight period-All year

Melissa Blue-Plebejus Melissa
Larval food-Legumes
Flight period-April through October

Brown Peacock-Anartia Fatima
Larval food-Ruellia(Wild Petunia)
Flight period-All year