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  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Skippers
  7. Panoquina
  8. Wandering Skipper
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What supports Wandering Skipper

15 native plants
support it in the US
7 caterpillar hosts 8 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

7 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Saltgrass Distichlis spicata
  • Shore Grass Distichlis littoralis on saltgrass
  • Sand Dropseed Sporobolus cryptandrus on rice grasses
  • Alkali Sacaton Sporobolus airoides on rice grasses
  • California Cordgrass Sporobolus foliosus on rice grasses
  • Spike Dropseed Sporobolus contractus on rice grasses
  • Mesa Dropseed Sporobolus flexuosus on rice grasses

Nectar plants All

8 native plants whose flowers it visits, most recorded first.

  • Coastal Goldenbush Isocoma menziesii
  • Alkali Heath Frankenia salina
  • Alkali Heliotrope Heliotropium curassavicum
  • Pacific Goldenthread Cuscuta pacifica
  • Tornleaf Goldeneye Bahiopsis laciniata
  • California Buckwheat Eriogonum fasciculatum
  • California Brittlebush Encelia californica
  • Fremont's Desert-thorn Lycium fremontii

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