Butterfly & Moth Larval Food Plants

Pink : Carnation Family

Caryophyllaceae

Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, 1798

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• Cerastium arvense - Field Mouse-ear
  • ​Marsh Pug
  • Small Yellow Underwing
• Cerastium glomeratum - Sticky Chickweed
  • Cloaked Carpet
• Cerastium holosteoides - Common Mouse-ear
  • Cloaked Carpet
  • Small Yellow Underwing
  • The Clay
• Cerastium tomentosum - Snow in Summer
  • Marsh Pug
• Cucubalus baccifer - Berry-bearing Catchfly
  • Common Pug
• Dianthus barbatus - Sweet William
  • The Lychnis
  • White Spot
• Dianthus caryophyllus - Carnation
  • Beaded Chestnut
  • Cabbage Moth
  • Carnation Tortrix
  • Dog's Tooth
  • Double-striped Pug
  • Large Yellow Underwing
  • Ni Moth
  • Scarce Bordered Straw
  • Shoulder-striped Clover
  • The Lychnis
  • White Spot
• Dianthus deltoides - Maiden Pink
  • Bordered Gothic
• Dianthus plumarius -  Pink, Feathered pink, Cottage Pink 
  • Bordered Gothic
• Honkenya peploides - Sea Sandwort, Seaside sandplant
  • Archer's Dart
  • Bright Wave
• Lychnis chalcedonica - Maltese Cross
  • Cabbage Moth
• Lychnis flos-cuculi - Ragged Robin
  • Bordered Gothic
  • Marbled Coronet
  • Rivulet
  • Satyr Pug
• Lychnis viscaria - German Catchfly - Sticky Catchfly
  • Lewes Wave
  • The Lychnis
• Myosoton aquaticum - Water Chickweed, Giantchickweed
  • ​​Cloaked Carpet
• Saponaria officinalis - Soapwort, Bouncingbet
  • Bordered Gothic
• Silene conoidea - Weed Silene,Large Sand Catchfly 
  • Scarce Bordered Straw
• Silene dichotoma - Forked Catchfly
  • The Lychnis
• Silene dioica - Red Campion
  • Bordered Gothic
  • Grass Rivulet
  • The Lychnis
  • Udea olivalis
  • Rivulet
  • Satyr Pug
  • White Spot
• Silene latifolia - White Campion
  • Marbled Clover
  • Pale Shining Brown
  • Rivulet
  • The Lychnis
  • Satyr Pug
  • White Spot
• Silene marítima - Sea Camion 
  • Annulet
  • Bordered Gothic
  • White Spot
• Silene nutans - Nottingham Catchfly
  • Annulet
  • Marbled Clover
  • Marbled Coronet
  • Rivulet
  • The Lychnis
  • White Spot
• Silene otites - Spanish Catchfly 
  • Annulet
  • Bordered Gothic
  • ​Yellow Belle
• Silene pratensis - Evening Campion
  • Cabbage Moth
  • Satyr Pug
  • Shark
• Silene uniflora - Sea Campion
  • Bright-line Brown-eye
  • Marbled Coronet
• Silene viscaria - Sticky Catchfly 
  • Annulet
  • Marbled Coronet
• Silene vulgaris - Bladder Campion 
  • Annulet
  • Bordered Gothic
  • Bright-Line Brown-eye
  • Dark Brocade
  • Lewes Wave
  • Lime-speck Pug
  • Marbled Clover
  • Marbled Coronet
  • Pale Shing Brown
  • Rivulet
  • Satyr Pug
  • The Lychnis
  • ​White Spot
• Spergula arvensis - Corn Spurrey 
  • Shoulder-striped Clover
• Spergularia rupicola - Rock Sea-spurrey 
  • Crescent Dart
  • Marbled Coronet
• Stellaria graminea - Lesser Stitchwort
  • Bright Wave
  • Cloaked Carpet
• Stellaria holostea - Greater Stitchwort
  • Cloaked Carpet
  • Marsh Pug
• Stellaria media - Chickweed
  • Archer's Dart
  • Beaded Chestnut
  • Bright Wave
  • Cloaked Carpet
    
  • Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet
  • Garden Tiger​
  • Large Twin-spot Carpet
  • Light Feathered Rustic
  • Lunar Yellow Underwing
  • Marsh Pug
  • Neglected Rustic
  • Old Lady
  • Red Chestnut
  • Red Twin-spot Carpet
  • ​Satin Wave
  • Setacious Hebrew Character
  • Sharp-angled Peacock (In Captivity UK)
  • The Rustic
  • Yellow Shell
• Stellaria nemorum - Wood Stitchwort 
  • Cloaked Carpet
  • Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet
  • Marsh Pug
• Stellaria uliginosa - Bog Stitchwort 
  • Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet