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Occidryas colon

Common name: Colon Checkerspot

Feeds on these plants:

Achillea ageratifolia

Achillea ageratum
(sold as Moonshine)

Achillea alpina

Achillea clavennae

Achillea filipendulina

Achillea millefolium

Achillea millefolium ‘Lavender Beauty’

Achillea millefolium ‘Paprika’

Achillea millefolium
(sold as Apple Blossom)

Achillea ptarmica

Achillea tomentosa

Achillea x kellereri

Achillea ‘Anblo’
(sold as Anthea)

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

Euphorbia amygdaloides

Euphorbia amygdaloides
(sold as Efanthia)

Euphorbia atropurpurea

Euphorbia bourgeana

Euphorbia characias ssp. wulfenii

Euphorbia characias ‘Dwarf’

Euphorbia characias
(sold as Tasmanian Tiger)

Euphorbia cyparissias ‘Fens Ruby’

Euphorbia dulcis

Euphorbia epithymoides

Euphorbia griffithii

Euphorbia griffithii ‘Fireglow’

Euphorbia marginata

Euphorbia mellifera

Euphorbia milii

Euphorbia myrsinites

Euphorbia palustris

Euphorbia pulcherrima

Euphorbia rigida

Euphorbia sikkimensis

Euphorbia x lomi
(sold as Salmon)

Euphorbia x martinii

Euphorbia x martinii ‘Red Martin’

Euphorbia
(sold as Diamond Frost)

Euphorbia
(sold as Glacier Blue)

Potentilla argyrophylla var. atrosanguinea

Potentilla canadensis

Potentilla fruticosa ‘Gold Drop’

Potentilla fruticosa ‘Tangerine’

Potentilla fruticosa
(sold as Jackmannii)

Potentilla fruticosa
(sold as Primrose)

Potentilla kingii

Potentilla verna

Triteleia hyacinthina

Occidryas colon, the Colon Checkerspot, can be found in WA,CA,OR,ID, and WY.
Favorite nectar plant: Achillea and Allium
USDA Growing Zones for these plants include: 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10

Host plants:
Castilleja

PD images courtesy of
John Clecker, USGS
Barna Aaron, USFWS

CC0 images courtesy of
Alan Schmierer
NSG group

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