Males patrol during the day for receptive females. Eggs are laid singly on underside of host plant leaves.
Caterpillars feed on leaves.
Flower nectar from mustard family and other plants. East from the Dakotas and Canadian prairie provinces across the Great Lakes area to New England and Nova Scotia. Opler, P. A. and G. O. Krizek. Butterflies east of the Great Plains. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.