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  6. Skippers
  7. Branded Skippers
  8. Indian Skipper
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What supports Indian Skipper

132 native plants
support it in the US
62 caterpillar hosts 70 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

62 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Poverty Oatgrass Danthonia spicata
  • Little Bluestem Schizachyrium scoparium
  • Nodding Fescue Festuca subverticillata keystone
  • Switchgrass Panicum virgatum keystone on panicgrasses
  • Witch Grass Panicum capillare keystone on panicgrasses
  • Smooth Witchgrass Panicum dichotomiflorum keystone on panicgrasses
  • Bitter Panicgrass Panicum amarum keystone on panicgrasses
  • Philadelphia Panic Grass Panicum philadelphicum keystone on panicgrasses
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Spreading Dogbane Apocynum androsaemifolium
  • Allegheny Blackberry Rubus allegheniensis
  • American Vetch Vicia americana
  • Common Dewberry Rubus flagellaris
  • Sundial Lupine Lupinus perennis keystone
  • Red Raspberry Rubus idaeus on brambles
  • Thimbleberry Rubus parviflorus on brambles
  • Black Raspberry Rubus occidentalis on brambles
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