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Atlides halesus

Common name: Great Purple Hairstreak

Feeds on these plants:

Aesculus californica

Aesculus hippocastanum

Aesculus pavia

Aesculus x carnea

Ageratina havanensis

Allium ampeloprasum ‘Leek’
(sold as Titan, Giant Musselburgh, Lancelot, Musselburgh, Large American Flag, American Flag )

Allium ampeloprasum
(sold as elephant garlic)

Allium cepa ‘Bunching Onions’
(sold as Red Baron, white/off white Bunching, Lisbon, Lisbon Winter Hardy, Evergreen white/off white)

Allium cepa ‘Pickling Onion’
(sold as Barletta)

Allium cepa ‘Red Onions’
(sold as Sweet Spanish Red, Southport red globe, Granex Red, red hamburger)

Allium cepa ‘Shallot’
(sold as Ambition, Armador, Cuisse de Poulet echalion, Matador)

Allium cepa ‘White Onion’
(sold as Bermuda White, Granex white, Snow white, Southport white, Sweet Spanish, Spanish)

Allium cepa ‘Yellow Onion’
(sold as Ailsa Craig, Rijnsburger, Sweet & Early, Fiesta, Candy Yellow, Ebenezer Yellow, Sweet Spanish Yellow, Bermuda Yellow, Texas Grano, Texas grano 1015y, Texas supersweet, Vidalia, Walla Walla, Granex Yellow)

Allium cyathophorum

Allium drummondii

Allium hypsistum

Allium ramosum

Allium sativum
(sold as California Early, California Late)

Allium schoenoprasum
(sold as Corsican, Grolau Forcing Chives, Polyvit, Prager, Staro)

Allium senescens

Allium siculum

Allium sikkimense

Allium sphaerocephalon

Allium splendens

Allium textile

Allium tricoccum

Allium tuberosum
(sold as Kobold a couper, mauve flowering form)

Allium unifolium

Allium ursinum

Allium wallichii

Apocynum cannabinum

Cosmos atrosanguineus

Cosmos bipinnatus

Cosmos sulphureus

Cosmos
(sold as Cosmic yellow)

Descurainia pinnate

Descurainia species

Eupatorium perfoliatum

Lepidospartum squamatum

Lupinus albifrons

Lupinus chamissonis

Lupinus densiflorus

Lupinus latifolius

Lupinus littoralis

Lupinus microcarpus var. microcarpus

Lupinus perennis

Lupinus polyphyllus ‘Gallery Mix’

Lupinus succulentus

Melanthera nivea

Muscari armeniacum

Prunus americana

Prunus armeniaca
(sold as Blenheim apricot)

Prunus armeniaca
(sold as apricot)

Prunus avium
(sold as Bing Cherry)

Prunus avium
(sold as Black Tartarian Cherry)

Prunus avium
(sold as Craig's Crimson Cherry)

Prunus avium
(sold as Royal Ann Cherry)

Prunus cerasifera

Prunus cerasifera ‘Purple Pony’

Prunus dulcis

Prunus laurocerasus

Prunus laurocerasus ‘Marbled White’

Prunus laurocerasus ‘Otto Luyken’

Prunus mexicana

Prunus padus

Prunus persica
(sold as Canadian Harmony)

Prunus persica
(sold as Elberta)

Prunus persica
(sold as Heavenly White)

Prunus salicina

Prunus serotina

Prunus spinosa

Prunus tenella

Prunus umbellata

Prunus virginiana demissa

Prunus virginiana melampcarpa

Prunus virginiana melanopcarpa

Prunus virginiana

Prunus yedoensis

Rudbeckia hirta

Rudbeckia hirta ‘Autumn Colors’

Rudbeckia hirta ‘Indian Summer’

Rudbeckia hirta
(sold as Becky Series)

Rudbeckia hirta
(sold as Cordoba)

Solidago californica

Solidago canadensis

Solidago flexicaulis

Solidago multiradiata

Solidago nultiradiata

Solidago rigida

Solidago rugosa

Solidago spectabilis

Solidago ‘Crown Of Rays’

Verbesina encelioides

Verbesina virginica

Atlides halesus, the Great Purple Hairstreak, can be found in numerous states in all regions of the country.
Favorite nectar plants include: Aesculus.
USDA Growing Zones for this plant include: 3,4,5,6,7,8,9

Host plants:
Phoradendron
Phoradendron bolleanum
Phoradendron californicum
Phoradendron juniperinum
Phoradendron leucarpum
Phoradendron tomentosum
Prosopis glandulosa
Psorothamnus arborescens
Psorothamnus scoparius
Viscum

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