American Lady

 This American Lady butterfly came out with the warmer temps this last week.

It got me researching the difference between this one and the painted lady.

Seems there's a white dot on an orange bar that the painted lady doesn't have, which doesn't seem real noticeable when they're out in the garden. Otherwise, count the eyespots.

The missouri prairie foundation explains with pictures

There are other differences. 

In 2016, I posted several pictures of the American lady depositing eggs on cudweed

The painted lady uses thistle as a host plant. Unfortunately, I can't seem to keep thistles growing in my sandhill garden. I had a nice patch one time, back in 2013. I can't recall caterpillars on the thistles.