Category: Photography

  • Prairie Purple Coneflower and the Great Spangled Fritillary

    Prairie Purple Coneflower and the Great Spangled Fritillary

    I love a small discovery and here’s a new one—Prairie purple coneflower (Echinacea simulata) is a nectaring plant for the Great Spangled Fritillary (Speyeria cybele). This rare native plant was not listed in Butterflies Of Tennessee because at the time of publication, I had not yet found any proof of anything nectaring on it in…