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  8. Salt Marsh Skipper
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What supports Salt Marsh Skipper

149 native plants
support it in the US
19 caterpillar hosts 130 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

19 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Saltgrass Distichlis spicata
  • Saltmarsh Cordgrass Sporobolus alterniflorus on cord-grasses
  • Prairie Cordgrass Sporobolus michauxianus on cord-grasses
  • Marsh Hay Cordgrass Sporobolus pumilus on cord-grasses
  • Shore Grass Distichlis littoralis on saltgrass
  • Gulf Cordgrass Sporobolus spartinae on cord-grasses
  • Sand Cordgrass Sporobolus bakeri on cord-grasses
  • Big Cordgrass Sporobolus cynosuroides on cord-grasses
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Nectar plants All

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

  • White Beggarticks Bidens alba
  • Sea Ox-eye Borrichia frutescens
  • Turkey Tangle Frogfruit Phyla nodiflora
  • Gulf Coast Swallow-wort Pattalias palustris
  • New England Aster Symphyotrichum novae-angliae keystone
  • Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea
  • Blue Mistflower Conoclinium coelestinum
  • Bristle Thistle Cirsium horridulum
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