IRC - Natives for Your Neighborhood

Plant-Wildlife Interactions

Animal Associates of
Buttonwood

Common Name	Scientific Name	Plant Uses
Black-and-white Warbler	Mniotilta varia	Provides shelter and source of insects.
Blue Jay	Cyanocitta cristata	Provides shelter and source of insects.
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher	Polioptila caerulea	Provides shelter and source of insects.
Boat-tailed Grackle	Quiscalus major	Provides shelter and source of insects.
Common Grackle	Quiscalus quiscula	Provides shelter and source of insects.
Cooper's Hawk	Accipiter cooperii	Provides shelter and source of insects.
Martial Scrub-Hairstreak	Strymon martialis	Occasional larval host.
Mourning Dove	Zenaida macroura	Provides shelter and source of insects.
Northern Cardinal	Cardinalis cardinalis	Provides shelter and source of insects.
Northern Mockingbird	Mimus polyglottos	Provides shelter and source of insects.
Palm Warbler	Setophaga palmarum	Provides shelter and source of insects.
Prairie Warbler	Setophaga discolor	Provides shelter and source of insects.
Red-bellied Woodpecker	Melanerpes carolinus	Provides shelter and source of insects.
Ruby-throated Hummingbird	Archilochus colubris	Provides shelter and source of insects.
Yellow-rumped Warbler	Setophaga coronata	Provides shelter and source of insects.