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  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
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  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Gossamer-winged Butterflies
  7. American Dotted-Blues
  8. Dotted Blue
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What supports Dotted Blue

132 native plants
support it in the US
127 caterpillar hosts 5 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

127 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Naked Buckwheat Eriogonum nudum
  • Wright's Buckwheat Eriogonum wrightii
  • Long-stemmed Buckwheat Eriogonum elongatum
  • Seaside Buckwheat Eriogonum latifolium
  • Seacliff Wild Buckwheat Eriogonum parvifolium
  • Yellow Turbans Eriogonum pusillum
  • Kidneyleaf Buckwheat Eriogonum reniforme
  • Wand Buckwheat Eriogonum roseum
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Pitted Onion Allium lacunosum
  • Woodland Strawberry Fragaria vesca keystone
  • Apricot Globemallow Sphaeralcea ambigua
  • Bristly Jewelflower Streptanthus glandulosus
  • Southern Monardella Monardella australis

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