Chlosyne nycteis Butterfly on Packera anonyma

The plant is a closeup of Appalachian or Small’s ragwort, Packera anonyma. The tattered butterfly on the plant looks like Silvery Checkerspot, Chlosyne nycteis. I assumed while photographing it that was a Pearl Crescent and there is some similarity. But the presence of white spots (the silvery aspect) inside the dark spots at the bottom of the hindwings marks it as silvery.

Credit: Wayne Hughes, May 2009; photographed in the rolling hills of the Wolfskin district of the northeast Georgia Piedmont; used by permission. [source].

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