Climate change is expected to affect some species more than others. Alpine species are particularly susceptible because changes in climate shift distributions to higher altitudes that can result in extirpation on certain mountains. Additionally, species that are reliant on interactions with other species can be at increased risk because mismatches in their distributions over time. Here, we compare the project changes in distribution of Rocky Mountain Apollo butterfly (Parnassius smintheus) and the host-plant they are reliant on. We hypothesize that climate change will negatively impact P. smintheus more relative to other alpine butterfly species because parnassius is dependent on a host-plant that has a different climate niche and thus decreasing overlap in area with climate change. We used maximum entropy (MaxEnt) to model the projected occurrence of P. smintheus, its host-plant, and four other butterfly species with climate change. We modelled the future distributions using four major global circulation models, each of the four representative concentration pathways of climate change, and two time frames (2050, 2070). The variables we used in the models included altitude, soil characteristics, and climate variables from WorldClim.