The American Painted Lady has an upperside with an uneven brown, yellow, and orange pattern. A forewing with a black apical patch, a small white spot in the orange field below the patch which you can see in this image if you look closely, and a white bar at the leading edge of the forewing.
They are found in open places with low vegetation including dunes, meadows, parks, vacant lots and forest edges.
They are a resident in the southern United States, Mexico, and Central America south to Colombia and migrate to and temporarily colonizes the northern United States, southern Canada, the West Indies, and Europe.
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