Outer hindwing band repeated. One flight from mid-June to July, rarely August. Flower nectar of various plants including alfalfa, sweet clover, and milkweeds. Southern Canadian prairie provinces south through Great Plains to southern Missouri, Oklahoma, and northern Texas. Host plants adapted to weedy conditions.
Butterflies seem to adapt to wide range of conditions.
Butterflies of the Rocky Mountain States. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman. 442 pages. Layberry, R.A., P.W. Hall, and J.D. Lafontaine. The Butterflies of Canada. Opler, P.A. 1999.