Falcate Orangetips are signature butterflies of Tennessee springs. They like sunny spots in moist, rich woods where spring wildflowers, especially their hostplants in the mustard family, are abundant. Cutleaf toothwort, which grows statewide, provides both nursery and restaurant for the Falcates.
Males have the orange tips while the females do not.
Go quickly! By the middle of May most have formed chrysalises and have disappeared for another year.
