- Family name: Nymphalidae/Brush-Footed Butterflies
- General description: Orange with black markings; black forewing extended and squared-off with small white spots; hindwing with postmedian row of small black eyespots; ventral hindwing woth white cobweb pattern and two prominent eyespots
- Field Marks: Orange with black markings; ventral hindwing with two prominent eyespots
- Sexes: Appear similar
- Wingspan: 54- 66 mm
- Life Cycle: Egg: Small, green, laid singly on host leaves or flowers Mature larva: Yellow with transverse black bands, dorsal white spots, and numerous red-based black branched spines Chrysalis: Mottled gray or yellow-green
- Number of Generations: 100
- Flight Season:
- Abundance: Common
- Habitat: Disturbed sites, roadsides, fields, pastures, woodland margins
- Larval Host Plants: Cudweed (Gnaphalium spp.)
- Similar Species: No similar species
- Additional Information: Adults have a low, rapid flight; adults overwinter; larvae construct individual shelters on host. Range is limited in Montana.
- Range in Florida
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