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Wildflower Art, Technical Illustration, and Insect Drawings

Smith’s Blue Butterfly and Coastal Buckwheat

Smith's Blue Butterfly and Coastal Buckwheat Fine Art Painting featuring a stemmy plant with bursts of pink flowers pollinated by two blue butterflies
Smith's Blue Butterfly and Coastal Buckwheat Giclée Fine Art Print featuring a stemmy plant with bursts of pink flowers pollinated by two blue butterflies shown matted in a frame

Smith’s Blue and Coastal Buckwheat

Euphilotes enoptes smithi and Eriolgonum latifolium

Acrylic on watercolor paper

$750

17 x 14” framed; archival matboard, metallic wood frame

Smith’s blue butterfly is an endangered species native to California’s Central Coast, and is totally dependent on two species of buckwheat—the flowers provide food and shelter for the entire life cycle of the butterfly. Habitat encroachment has deeply affected this species, but work is underway to preserve the coastal dunes and scrub where they live.

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