Butterfly & Moth Larval Food Plants

Dock : Sorrel Family

Polygonaceae

Antoine Laurent de Jussieu
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  • Atraphaxis laetevirens - No Common Name
    • Lesser Fiery Copper
  • Eriogonum latifolium - Seaside Buckwheat
    • Cnephasia longana
  • Fallopia convolvulus - Black-bindweed
    • Bright-line Brown-eye
  • Fallopia japonica - Japanese Knotweed
    • Knot Grass
  • Oxygonum sinuatum - No Common Name
    • Vestal
  • Persicaria maculosa - Redshank
    • Light Brocade
    • Treble Brown Spot
  • Persicaria lapathifolia - Pale Smartweed
    • Bright-line Brown-eye
    • Knot Grass
  • Polygonum alpinum - Alpine Knotweed, Alaska wild rhubarb
    • Pale Shining Brown
  • Polygonum amphibium - Willow Grass - Water Knotweed
    • Beautiful Brocade
  • Polygonum aviculare - Postrate Knotweed
    • Beautiful Arches
    • Beautiful Brocade
    • Bird's Wing
    • Black-veined Moth
    • Bordered Gothic
    • Bright Wave
    • Cream Wave
    • Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet
    • Dog's Tooth
    • Fox Moth
    • Garden Dart
    • Green Arches
    • Heart & Dart
    • Hebrew Character
    • Lewes Wave
    • Mother Shipton
    • Mottled Rustic
    • Pale Shining Brown
    • Plain Wave
    • Red Twin-spot Carpet
    • Riband wave
    • Rosy Wave - Captive bred
    • Rush Veneer
    • Satin Wave
    • Shuttle-shaped Dart
    • Silver Cloud
    • Small Fan-footed Wave
    • Spurge Hawk-moth
    • The Gem
    • Treble Brown Spot
    • Vestal
    • Yellow Belle
      • Lesser Fiery Copper
      • Small Copper
  • Polygonum aviculare subsp. depressum - No Common Name
    • White Ermine
  • Polygonum bellardi - Narrow-leaved Knotgrass
    • Lesser Fiery Copper
  • Polygonum bistorta - Common Bistort
    • Dark Tussock
    • Red Sword-grass
    • Satyr Pug
      • Dark Green Fritillary
      • Lesser Fiery Copper
  • Polygonum convolvulus - Black Bindweed
    • Bird's Wing
  • Pologonum cuspidatum - Japanese Knotweed
    • Silver-studded Blue
  • Polygonum equisetiforme - Horsetail Knotweed
    • African Grass Blue
    • Lesser Fiery Copper
  • Polygonum hydropiper - Smartweed, Marshpepper knotweed
    • ​The Gem
  • Polygonum lapathifolium - Curleytop Knotweed
    • Beautiful Brocade
    • Broom Moth
    • Silver Y
  • Polygonum perfoliatum - Asiatic tearthumb
    • ​Spoladea recurvalis
  • Polygonum persicaria - The Redshank
    • Plain Wave
    • The Gem
      • Lesser Fiery Copper
  • Polygonum suffultum - No Common Name
    • Dark Green Fritillary
  • Polygonum viviparum - Alpine Bistort
    • Bright-line Brown-eye
    • Broom Moth
  • Rheum rhaponticum - Rhubarb
    • Brown-tail
    • Buff Ermine
    • Cabbage Moth
    • Garden Tiger
    • Large Yellow Underwing
    • Rosy Rustic
    • Setaceous Hebrew Character
  • Rheum rhabarbarum - Wild Rhubarb
    • European Corn-borer
    • Large Yellow Underwing
    • Turnip Moth
  • Rumex acetosa - Common Sorrel
    • Bird's Wing
    • Blood-vein
    • Brown-spot Pinion
    • Cream Wave
    • Deep-brown Dart
    • Fiery Clearwing
    • Heart & Dart
    • Knot Grass
    • Lime-speck pug
    • Mouse Moth
    • Pale Mottled Willow
    • Shoulder-striped Wainscot
    • Teleiopsis diffinis
    • The Forester
    • Wood Tiger
      • Small Copper
  • Rumex acetosella - Sheep's Sorrel
    • Bird's Wing
    • Blood-vein
    • Clouded Buff
    • Deep-brown Dart
    • Feathered Footman
    • Fiery Clearwing
    • Lime-speck pug
    • Satyr Pug
    • Shoulder-striped Wainscot
    • Silver Y
    • Sussex Emerald
    • Teleiopsis diffinis
    • The Forester
    • Udea olivalis
    • Vapourer
    • Yellow Shell
      • Camberwell Beauty
      • Small Copper
  • Rumex alpinus - Alpine Dock, Munk's rhubarb
    • Brown-spot Pinion
  • Rumex altissimus - Pale Dock
    • ​Gypsy Moth
  • Rumex conglomeratus - Sharp Dock, Clustered dock
    • Fiery Clearwing
  • Rumex crispus - Curled Dock
    • Bird's Wing
    • Brindled Beauty
    • Brown Rustic
    • Brown-tail
    • ​Carnation Tortrix
    • Dark Tussock
    • Delicate
    • European Corn-borer
    • Fiery Clearwing
    • Flame Shoulder
    • Garden Tiger
    • Gypsy Moth
    • Hebrew Character
    • Knot Grass
    • Lesser Yellow Underwing
    • Mottled Rustic
    • Muslin Moth
    • Ruby Tiger
    • Small Mottled Willow
    • Square-spot Rustic
    • Teleiopsis diffinis
    • Yellow Shell
      • Small Copper
  • Rumex hydrolapathum - Great Water Dock
    • Fiery Clearwing
    • Red Sword-grass
    • White Ermine
      • Small Copper
  • Rumex longifolius - Dooryard Dock
    • Bird's Wing
    • Brown-spot Pinion
    • Garden Tiger
    • Mouse moth
    • Silver Y
    • The Engrailed
      • Small Copper
  • Rumex obtusifolius - Broad-leaved Dock
    • Bird's Wing
    • Bordered Gothic
    • Brown Rustic
    • Dark Fruit-tree Tortrix
    • Deep-brown Dart
    • Dot Moth
    • ​European Corn-borer
    • Garden Dart
    • Garden Tiger
    • Ghost Moth
    • ​Green Arches
    • ​Grey Arches
    • Fiery Clearwing
    • Heart & Club
    • Knot Grass
    • Lesser Yellow Underwing
    • Mottled Rustic
    • Plain wave
    • Rosy Rustic
    • Silver-ground Carpet
    • Small Mottled Willow
    • Spilonota ocellana
  • Rumex pulcher - Fiddle Dock
    • Fiery Clearwing
  • Rumex scutatus - Buckler-leaved Sorrel
    • Fiery Clearwing
    • Small Copper
  • Rumex thyrsiflorus - Compact Dock
    • Fiery Clearwing
    • Yellow Shell
  • Rumex tingitanus - Tangier Sorrel
    • Small Copper
  • Rumex verticillatus - Swamp Dock 
    • Brown-tail
  • Rumex vesicarius - Bladder Dock
    • Silver-striped Hawk-moth
    • Vestal
      • Lesser Fiery Copper
      • Small Copper