Butterfly flower

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Butterfly flower is a term for

  • The gap flowers ( Schizanthus ) are a genus of plants within the nightshade family (Solanaceae)
  • a flower that serves as food for butterflies and whose pollination takes place through them, see lepidopterophilia
  • in the broadest sense a plant that is (often the only) food source of the butterfly caterpillars (like the nettle for the caterpillars of the admiral)