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What supports Rare Skipper

14 native plants
support it in the US
6 caterpillar hosts 8 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

6 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Big Cordgrass Sporobolus cynosuroides
  • Saltmarsh Cordgrass Sporobolus alterniflorus on cord-grasses
  • Prairie Cordgrass Sporobolus michauxianus on cord-grasses
  • Marsh Hay Cordgrass Sporobolus pumilus on cord-grasses
  • Sand Cordgrass Sporobolus bakeri on cord-grasses
  • Giant Cutgrass Zizaniopsis miliacea on cutgrass

Nectar plants All

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

  • Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea
  • Swamp Milkweed Asclepias incarnata
  • Pickerelweed Pontederia cordata
  • Clustered Mountainmint Pycnanthemum muticum
  • Sweet Pepperbush Clethra alnifolia
  • Field Thistle Cirsium discolor
  • Dense Blazing Star Liatris spicata
  • Rocky Mountain Blazing Star Liatris ligulistylis

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