Oregon has given proof that efforts like ours can work; the successful campaign to save Fenders Blues by planting meadowrues’ seeds of the endangered Kincaid Saxifrage shows.  America has a love affair with Monarch Butterflies sponsored by massive plantings of milkweed (e.g., Kiosk 1’s Milkweed for Monarchs, native to eastern areas); where as our Kiosk 10 has had a huge hatch of Red Admirals. We’ve also seen hatches of Swallowtails, Lorquin’s Admiral, and Cabbage Whites, the former favors Meadowrues.  If you see and photograph a butterfly, we’d very much like to use the photo.  That said, we have never seen and Island White, nor Kinkade’s Shell.  Butterflies are like autos on the I-5 Freeway, they pass through quickly and only stay a brief time, for the latter (almost extinct in the 1 region it lives: Willamette Valley) they live for but 10 days. Imagine if the State of Washington did what Oregon successfully did: a) collect seeds of a specific plant (also on edge of extinction), b) germinate and care for seedlings, c) then plant the seedlings of the annual.  They won’t but Bonhoeffer Gardens has.  Time will tell if our small effort (hair on the tail of a dog) will have been worthwhile.  Kiosk 06 (Cottonwoods) has a fine patch of Meadowrues and Swallowtails proliferate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalictrum_occidentale
https://burkeherbarium.org/imagecollection/taxon.php?Taxon=Thalictrum%20occidentale
https://www.calflora.org/app/taxon?crn=7952
https://www.inaturalist.org/guide_taxa/697548
https://ecos.fws.gov/ecp/species/3285
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/21/us/fenders-blue-butterfly-endangered-scn-trnd/index.html
https://wabutterflyassoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Butterflies-and-How-to-Attract-Them-WDFW2011.pdf
https://fancy4page.com/one-of-the-worlds-largest-moths-has-been-spotted-in-the-united-states-for-the-first-time-perplexing-scientists/
https://fancy4page.com/one-of-the-worlds-largest-moths-has-been-spotted-in-the-united-states-for-the-first-time-perplexing-scientists/
https://www.sonomanews.com/article/news/californias-final-monarch-butterfly-count-is-in-and-its-even-better-than/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A%20Trending%20Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR1FELhNyDi5yySGLVNbS9BWB_UXa0yYDVqLM6PsIvqBzKx3Akh3ZgvfimU

Meadowrues are used by what butterflies as larval hosts:

Swallowtails
Fender’s Blues
Red Admirals

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