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

208 native plants
support it in the US
15 caterpillar hosts 193 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

15 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Round-headed Bush Clover Lespedeza capitata
  • Eastern Wild Indigo Baptisia tinctoria
  • American Vetch Vicia americana
  • Showy Tick-trefoil Desmodium canadense
  • Hairy Lespedeza Lespedeza hirta
  • Sundial Lupine Lupinus perennis keystone
  • Sky Lupine Lupinus nanus keystone
  • Thicket Bean Phaseolus polystachios keystone
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Butterfly Milkweed Asclepias tuberosa
  • Flat-topped Goldenrod Euthamia graminifolia
  • Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea
  • Clustered Mountainmint Pycnanthemum muticum
  • California Buckwheat Eriogonum fasciculatum
  • Hairy White Oldfield Aster Symphyotrichum pilosum keystone
  • Narrowleaf Mountainmint Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
  • Late Boneset Eupatorium serotinum
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