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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Gossamer-winged Butterflies
  7. Tailed-Blues
  8. Western Tailed-Blue
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What supports Western Tailed-Blue

39 native plants
support it in the US
10 caterpillar hosts 29 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

10 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • American Vetch Vicia americana
  • Lambert's Locoweed Oxytropis lambertii
  • Timber Milkvetch Astragalus miser
  • Veiny Pea Lathyrus venosus
  • Nevada Sweet Pea Lathyrus lanszwertii
  • Balloon Milkvetch Astragalus whitneyi
  • Leafy Pea Lathyrus polyphyllus
  • Salton Milkvetch Astragalus crotalariae
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Santa Barbara Milkvetch Astragalus trichopodus
  • Douglas' Milkvetch Astragalus douglasii
  • Pale Vetchling Lathyrus ochroleucus
  • Virginia Strawberry Fragaria virginiana keystone
  • Coyote Brush Baccharis pilularis
  • Star-flowered Lily-of-the-valley Maianthemum stellatum
  • Deerweed Acmispon glaber
  • Mule Fat Baccharis salicifolia
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