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  8. Reakirt's Blue
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What supports Reakirt's Blue

377 native plants
support it in the US
207 caterpillar hosts 170 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

207 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Honey Mesquite Neltuma glandulosa
  • Wild Licorice Glycyrrhiza lepidota
  • White Prairie Clover Dalea candida
  • Prairie Acacia Acaciella angustissima
  • Purple Prairie Clover Dalea purpurea
  • Roundflower Catclaw Senegalia roemeriana
  • Long-stalked Clover Trifolium longipes keystone
  • Velvet Mesquite Neltuma velutina on new world mesquites
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Upright Prairie Coneflower Ratibida columnifera
  • Catclaw Acacia Senegalia greggii
  • California Buckwheat Eriogonum fasciculatum
  • Rocky Mountain Zinnia Zinnia grandiflora
  • Rubber Rabbitbrush Ericameria nauseosa
  • Cowpen Daisy Verbesina encelioides
  • Red Dome Blanketflower Gaillardia pinnatifida
  • Turkey Tangle Frogfruit Phyla nodiflora
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