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  9. Peck's Skipper
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What supports Peck's Skipper

597 native plants
support it in the US
21 caterpillar hosts 576 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

21 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Rice Cutgrass Leersia oryzoides
  • Wood Meadow-grass Poa nemoralis keystone on bluegrasses
  • White Grass Leersia virginica on cutgrass
  • Swamp Meadow-grass Poa palustris keystone on bluegrasses
  • Alpine Bluegrass Poa alpina keystone on bluegrasses
  • Pine Bluegrass Poa secunda keystone on bluegrasses
  • Muttongrass Poa fendleriana keystone on bluegrasses
  • Native Rice Grass Leersia hexandra on cutgrass
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea
  • Swamp Milkweed Asclepias incarnata
  • Blue Mistflower Conoclinium coelestinum
  • Coastal Plain Joe-Pye Weed Eutrochium dubium
  • Wild Bergamot Monarda fistulosa
  • New York Ironweed Vernonia noveboracensis
  • Common Selfheal Prunella vulgaris
  • New England Aster Symphyotrichum novae-angliae keystone
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