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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Gossamer-winged Butterflies
  7. Plebejus
  8. Lycaeides
  9. Northern Blue

species 10,433 observations

Northern Blue

Plebejus idas

Status
native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supported by All

182 native plants
support it in the US
  • Caterpillar hosts Plants its caterpillars eat Black Crowberry, Alpine Milkvetch, Bog Bilberry, Dwarf Bilberry 152
  • Nectar plants Plants whose flowers it visits Common Yarrow, Fireweed, Yellow Mountain-avens, Sheep Laurel 30

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

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