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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Nances, Willows, and Allies
  6. Spurge and Allies
  7. Crotons
  8. Grassland Croton
  9. Supports

What Grassland Croton supports

13 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 4 food 4 flowers

Caterpillars All

5 native moths and butterflies raised on it, most recorded first.

  • Red-banded Hairstreak Calycopis cecrops on crotons
  • Angled Leafwing Fountainea glycerium on crotons
  • Goatweed Leafwing Anaea andria on crotons
  • Tropical Leafwing Anaea aidea on crotons
  • Citrus Gem Schinia citrinellus on crotons

Plant eaters All

4 native animals that feed on it, most recorded first.

  • Croton Agrilus Agrilus lacustris
  • Common Ground Dove Columbina passerina on crotons
  • White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica on crotons
  • Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura on crotons

Flower visitors All

4 native pollinators and other flower visitors, most recorded first.

  • Reakirt's Blue Echinargus isola
  • Poecilanthrax effrenus
  • Hawaiian Beet Webworm Moth Spoladea recurvalis on crotons
  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus on crotons

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