Butterflies and Native Plants Seminar

Join Susan Karasoff as she leads this seminar on how San Francisco native plant leaves co-evolved to feed our local butterfly caterpillar species. Butterfly caterpillars and their native plant leaves for the Vermont Greenway & EcoPatch’s serpentine grassland and other local plant communities will be discussed, including the bay checkerspot butterfly and its caterpillar plant, dotseed plantain (Plantago erecta).

Susan Karasoff gardens in San Francisco’s clay and chert soil in former oak woodland. A member of the California Native Plant Society Yerba Buena chapter, Susan takes an “only the easiest plants survive” approach to gardening and grows a buffet of native butterfly caterpillar, specialist bee, shade tolerant and colorful native plants.

The Butterflies and Native Plants Seminar will take place on Sunday, May 19th from 2 pm - 4pm at the Vermont Greenway & Eco-patch (Vermont Street between 17th and Mariposa streets).

Open to all ages.

Host or Publisher Dogpatch & NW Potrero Hill Green Benefit District