Bloom Native gardener's
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  3. Arthropods
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  6. Gossamer-winged Butterflies
  7. Plebejus
  8. Lycaeides
  9. Northern Blue
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What supports Northern Blue

182 native plants
support it in the US
152 caterpillar hosts 30 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

152 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Black Crowberry Empetrum nigrum
  • Alpine Milkvetch Astragalus alpinus
  • Bog Bilberry Vaccinium uliginosum keystone
  • Dwarf Bilberry Vaccinium cespitosum keystone
  • Silvery Lupine Lupinus argenteus keystone
  • Slender Vetch Vicia ludoviciana
  • Swamp Laurel Kalmia polifolia
  • Balloon Milkvetch Astragalus whitneyi
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Common Yarrow Achillea millefolium
  • Fireweed Chamaenerion angustifolium
  • Yellow Mountain-avens Dryas drummondii
  • Sheep Laurel Kalmia angustifolia
  • Lanceleaf Stonecrop Sedum lanceolatum
  • Northern Goldenrod Solidago multiradiata keystone
  • Sagebrush Mariposa Lily Calochortus macrocarpus
  • Pacific Stonecrop Sedum divergens
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