List of Butterflies found in the park from 2010 through 2018, 46 species, view Photo Gallery.
| Butterflies of CBNP | Host Plants |
| Giant Swallowtail | Lime Prickley Ash, citrus, hop tree, hercules club |
| Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Ash species, Black Cherry, cottenwood, sweetbay |
| Two-tailed Swallowtail | chokecherry, bitter cherry, single-leaf ash, hoptree |
| Pipevine Swallowtail | Aristolochia species (pipevines) |
| Black Swallowtail | Fennel, parsley |
| Checkered White | Plants in the cabbage family and caper family |
| Orange Sulphur | alfalfa, clover, vetch |
| Large Orange Sulphur | Pea family |
| Southern Dogface | Pea family, alfalfa, prairie clover |
| Sleepy Orange | Pea family |
| Little Yellow | Pea family, Texas Bluebonnets |
| Dainy Sulphur | Greentread, Common Chickweed, Dogweed, Spanish needles |
| Dusky-blue Groundstreak | Rotted leaves and fruit |
| Gray Hairstreak | Pea family, mallow, clover |
| Reakirt's Blue | Legume family, mesquite, indigo bush |
| Rawson's Metalmark | Shrubby boneset |
| Variegated Fritillary | Passion vine |
| Gulf Fritillary | Passion vine |
| American Snout | Hackberry species |
| Bordered Patch | Sunflower family, ragweed |
| Vesta Crescent | Hairy tubetongue |
| Pearl Crescent | Asters, Sunflowers, Echinacea, Coreopsis, Eupatorium, Liatris, Rudbeckia |
| Phaon Crescent | Frog Fruit (Phyla incisa) |
| Texan Crescent | Flame Acanthus, Ruellia, Water Willow |
| Question Mark | Hackberry species, Elm, Neetle |
| American Lady | Asters, Sunflowers, Echinacea, Coreopsis, Eupatorium, Liatris, Rudbeckia |
| Red Admiral | Nettle (Urtica), False Nettle (Boemeria) |
| Common Buckeye | Toadflax, Plantain (Plantago), Ruellia, acanthus |
| Common Mestra | Leaves of the spurge family |
| Viceroy | Willows, Cottonwood, Cherry trees |
| Goatweed Leafwing | Goatweed |
| Tawny Emperor | Hackberry species, Elm |
| Hackberry Emperor | Hackberry species, Elm |
| Monarch | Asclepiadaceae, Milkweed species |
| Queen | Asclepiadaceae, Milkweed species |
| Funereal Duskywing | Baptisia, Lupines, Crown Vetch, Rattlebush |
| Common Checkered-Skipper | mallow family |
| Mazans Scallopwing | Lambsquarters |
| Hayhurst's Scallopwing | Lambsquarters |
| Common Sootywing | Lambsquarters |
| Fiery Skipper | Bermuda grass, St. Augustine grass |
| Southern Skipperling | Bermuda grass |
| Clouded Skipper | wooly beard grass, St. Augustine grass |
| Common Streaky-Skipper | Several mallows |
| Celia's Roadside-Skipper | Paspalum grass |
| Eufala Skipper | Johnson grass, Bermuda grass |