Brassicaceae/Cruciferae

Butterfly & Moth Larval Food Plants

Crucifers : Cabbage Family

Brassicaceae : Cruciferae

Gilbert Thomas Burnett, 1835

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Alliaria petiolata - Garlic Mustard
- Cauchas rufimitrella
- Evergestis limbata
- Flame Carpet
- Garden Carpet
  - Green-Veined White
  - Orange-tip
  - Small White
Alyssum saxatile - Golden Allysum
- Least Carpet
  - Small White
Alyssum spinosum - Spiny Madwort
- Bath White
Amoracia rusticana - Horseradish
- Bright-line Brown-eye
- Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet
- Garden Carpet
  - Large White
  - Small White
  - Green-veined White
Arabis allionii - No Common Name
- Large White
Arabis alpina - Alpine Rock Cress
- Small White
- Green-veined
- Orange-tip
Arabis drummondii - Drumond's Rockcress
- Green-veined White
Arabis glabra - Tower Cress
- Green-veined White
Arabis hirsuta - Hairy Rock-cress
- Flame Carpet
  - Green-veined White
Arabis lyrata - Rock Cress
- Orange-tip
Arabis sagittata - No Common Name
- Green-veined White
Arabis suecica - Swedish Thale Cress
- Orange-tip
Arabis Turritis glabra - Tower Mustard
- Bath White
- Orange-tip
- Small White
Aurinia saxatilis - Golden Allysum
- Dark Tussock
  - Small White
Barbarea orthoceras - American Yellowrocket
- Plutella porrectella
  - Small White
  - Green-veined White
Barbarea stricta - Small-flowered Wintercress
- Large White
Barbarea verna - Land Cress
- Small White
- Green-veined White
Barbarea vulgaris - Yellow Rocket
- Small White
- Orange-tip
- Green-veined White
Berteroa incana - Hoary Allysum
- Large White
- Green-veined White
Biscutella auriculata - Goggles(Spain)
- Small White
Biscutella Mollis - No Common Name
- Orange-tip
Brassica juncea - Brown Mustard
- Diamond- Back Moth
- Ni Moth
  - Large White
  - Small White
Brassica napus - Rape - Colza
- Cabbage Moth
- Common Swift
- Diamond-back Moth
- Flame Carpet
- Garden Dart
- Ghost Moth
- Ni Moth
  - Green-veined White
Brassica napus napobrassica - Swede
- Garden Dart
- Large White
- Small White
- Green-veined White
Brassica oleraceae - Wild Cabbage
- Angle Shades
- Cabbage Moth
- Diamond-back Moth
- Feathered Ranunculus
- Flame Carpet
- Garden Dart
- Golden Twin-spot
- Green Arches
- Heart & Club
- Large Yellow Underwing
- Ni Moth
- Red Sword-grass
- Rusty-dot Pearl
- Scarce Bordered Straw
- Small Mottled Willow
- Turnip Moth
- Foxglove Pug
  - Bath White
  - Small White
  - Green-veined White
Brassica oleracea alboglabra - Chinese Kale
- Diamond-back Moth
- Ni Moth
  - Small White
  - Orange-tip
Brassica oleracea v botrytis - Cauliflower
- Cabbage Moth
  - Large White
  - Green-veined White
Brassica oleracea v capitata - Cabbage
- Cabbage Moth
- Garden Carpet
- Setaceous Hebrew Character
  - Large White
Brassica oleracea gongylodes - Kohl Rabi
- Diamond-back Moth
- Ni Moth
  - Small White
Brassica napus napus - Oil seed Rape
- Garden Carpet
- Silver Y
  - Large White
  - Small White
Brassica nigra - Black Mustard
- Diamond-back Moth
- Ni Moth
- Small Mottled Willow
  - Large White
  - Small White
  - Green-veined White
Brassica rapa - Turnip
- Bright-line Brown-eye
- Cabbage Moth
- Diamond-back Moth
- European Corn-borer
- Evergestis extimalis
- Ghost Moth
- Large Yellow Underwing
- Ni Moth
- Setaceous Hebrew Character
- Silver Y
- Small Mottled Willow
- Turnip Moth
  - Green-veined White
  - Large White
  - Orange-tip
  - Small White
Brassica napa campestris - Wild Turnip
- Orange-tip
- Green-veined White
Brassica rapa chinensis - Pak Choi
- Diamond-back Moth
- Ni Moth
- Small Mottled Willow
  - Small White
Brassica rapa parachinensis - False Pak Choi
- Diamond-back Moth
- Ni Moth
  - Small White
Brassica tournefortii - Wild Turnip-rape - Asian Mustard
- Ni Moth
- Small Mottled Willow
Bunias orientalis - Turkish Rocket
- Large White
Cakile edentula - American Sea Rocket
- Small White
Cakile maritime - European Sea Rocket
- Garden Carpet
- Ni Moth
  - Bath White
  - Large White
Capsella bursa-pastoris - Shepherd's Purse
- Garden Carpet
  - Orange-tip
  - Large White
  - Small White
Cardamine amara - Large Bittercress
- Flame Carpet
  - Green-veined White
Cardamine bulbifera - Coral Root
- Silver-washed Fritillary
Cardamine californica - Milkmaids
- Green-veined White
Cardamine cordifolia - Heartleaf Bittercress
- Green-veined White
Cardamine flexuosa - Wavy Bittercress,Woodland bittercress
- Flame Carpet
Cardamine hirsuta - Hairy Bittercress
- Garden Carpet
  - Green-veined White
Cardamine impatiens - Narrowleaf bittercress
- Flame Carpet
Cardamine leucantha - No Common Name
- Small White
- Green-veined White
Cardamines pratensis - Cuckoo Flower
- Cauchas rufimitrella
- Flame Carpet
  - Orange-tip
Cardamine trifolia - Three leaved Cuckoo Flower
- Orange-tip
Cardaminopsis arenosa - Sand Rock Cress
- Orange-tip
Caulanthus cooperi - Cooper's Wild Cabbage
- Small White
Cheiranthus cheiri - Wallflower
- Cream-spot Tiger
- Diamond-back Moth
Cicer arietinum - Chick Pea
- Large White
Crambe maritima - Sea Kale
- Large White
Dentaria diphylla - Crinkleroot
- Small White
- Green-veined White
Descurainia incana - Mountain Tansy Mustard
- Green-veined White
Descurainia sophia - Flixweed
- Eastern Bath White
- Garden Carpet
- Small White
Descurainia sophioides - Northern Tansy Mustard
- Green-veined White
Diplotaxis tenuifolia - Perennial Wall Rocket
- Eastern Bath White
- Evergestis extimalis
- Garden Carpet
Diplotaxis virgata - Wild Mustard
- Small White
Draba aurea - Golden Whitlow Grass
- Green-veined White
Draba incana - Hoary Whitlow Grass
- Large White
Eruca sativa - Rocket
- Eastern Bath White
- Garden Carpet
- Powdered Quaker
  - Large White
  - Small White
Eruca vesicaria sativa - Rocket
- Small Mottled Willow
Erysimum capitatum - Coastal Wallflower
- Small White
Erysimum cheiranthoides - Wormseed Mustard
- Garden Carpet
Erysimum franciscanum - San Fransisco Wallflower
- Diamond-back Moth
Erysimum hieraciifolium - European Wallflower
- Large White
Hesperis matronalis - Sweet Rocket
- Plutella porrectella
  - Large White
  - Small White
  - Green-veined White
  - Orange-tip
  - Silver-washed Fritillary
Hirschfeldia incana - Greek Mustard
- Small White
Isatis tinctoria - Woad
- Plumed Fan-foot
  - Large White
  - Orange-tip
Lepidium campestre - Pepperwort
- Small White
Lepidium densiflorum - Common Pepperweed
- Small White
Lepidium draba - Hoary Cress
- Small White
Lepidium graminifolium - Grassleaf pepperweed
- Eastern Bath White
Lepidium heterophyllum - Smith's Pepperwort
- Green-veined White
Lepidium hyssopifolium - Soft Peppercress
- Small White
Lepidium latifolium - Dittander
- Small White
Lepidium vesicarium - No Common Name
- Eastern Bath White
Lepidium virginicum - Wild Pepper Cress
- Flame Carpet
- - Small White
  - Green-veined White
Lobularia maritima - Sweet Allysum
- Diamond-back Moth
- Flame Carpet
  - Small White
Lunaria annua - Honesty
- Green-veined White
- Orange-tip
- Small White
Lunaria rediviva - Perennial Honesty
- Green-veined White
Matthiola incana - Stock
- Diamond-back Moth
  - Green-veined White
Moricandia arvensis - Violet Cabbage
- Bath White
Nasturtium officinale - Watercress
- Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet
- Flame Carpet
- The Gem
Ptilotrichum spinosum - Allysum
- Bath White
Raphanus raphanistrum - Wild Radish
- Flame Carpet
- Garden Carpet
- Silver Y
  - Large White
  - Small White
  - Green-veined White
Raphanus raphanistrum ssp maritimus - Sea Radish
- Bath White
- Eastern Bath White
- Large White.
- Small White.
- Green-veined White
Raphanus sativus - Radish
- Cabbage Moth
- Diamond-back Moth
- Flame Carpet
- Ni Moth
- Rosy Rustic
- Small Mottled Willow
  - Green-veined White
  - Large White
  - Small White
  - Bath White
Rorippa aquatica - Lake CressRorippa curvisiliqua - Curvepod Yellowcress
- Flame Carpet
- - Small White
- Small White
Rorippa indica - Variableleaf Yellowcress
- Diamond-back Moth
  - Small White
Rorippa islandica - Marsh Cress
- Orange-tip
- Green-veined White
Rorippa microphylla - One-rowed Watercress
- Diamond-back Moth
  - Small White
Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum - Watercress
- Diamond-back Moth
  - Small White
  - Green-veined White
Rorippa sylvestris - Creeping Yellowcress
- Small White
- Green-veined White
Sinapis alba - White MustardSinapis arvensis - CharlockSisymbrium altissimum - Tumble Mustard
- Evergestis extimalis
- Ni Moth
  - Small White
  - Green-veined White
- Evergestis extimalis
- Flame Carpet
- - Green-veined White
  - Small White
  - Bath White
- Small White
Sisymbrium austriacum - Austrian Rocket
- Large White
Sisymbrium irio - London Rocket
- Small White
Sisymbrium officinale - Hedge Mustard
- Evergestis limbata
  - Eastern Bath White
  - Large White
  - Small White
  - Green-veined White
  - Bath White
  - Orange-tip
Streptanthus tortuosus - Shieldleaf
- Small White
Teesdalia nudicaulis - Shepherd's Cress
- Eastern Bath White
Thlaspi alpestre - Alpine Pennycress
- Greeen-veined White
Thlaspi arvense - Pennycress
- Green-veined White
- Orange-tip
- Small White
Thlaspi montanum - Alpine Pennycress
- Green-veined White
Turritis glabra - Tower Mustard
- Green-veined White