Veterans help plant 400 devil's-bit scabious to benefit the marsh fritillary at the Eden Project.
, Butterfly Conservation said the marsh fritillary was threatened across Europe and in the UK was now confined to western Britain and Ireland.
Stephanie Knights, NWC projects manager, said: "The plants typically thrive in damp and acidic marsh-like environments, which have unfortunately faced a decline in the UK due to increasing temperatures, decreasing rainfall and intensive agriculture. "The threatened marsh fritillary butterfly relies almost exclusively on these unassuming wildflowers for their food source, and these flowers were once widespread in the wild across Britain and Ireland.
"Now, in Cornwall, this is restricted to three main areas: the Lizard Peninsula heaths, mid-Cornwall and Bodmin moorlands."Ms Knights added that Eden's outer estate provided "perfect conditions" for the plant.
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