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  2. Animals
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  6. Brush-footed Butterflies
  7. Crescents
  8. Vesta Crescent
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What supports Vesta Crescent

19 native plants
support it in the US
7 caterpillar hosts 12 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

7 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Gregg's Tube Tongue Justicia pilosella
  • American Water-willow Justicia americana on water-willow
  • Lance-leaved Water-willow Justicia lanceolata on water-willow
  • Runyon's Water Willow Justicia runyonii on water-willow
  • Justicia turneri on water-willow
  • Wright's Justicia Justicia wrightii on water-willow
  • Justicia warnockii on water-willow

Nectar plants All

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

  • Texas Creeping-oxeye Wedelia hispida
  • Siam Weed Chromolaena odorata
  • Cowpen Daisy Verbesina encelioides
  • Smooth Blackberry Rubus canadensis
  • Black-eyed Susan Rudbeckia hirta
  • Texas Bluebonnet Lupinus texensis keystone
  • Engelmann Daisy Engelmannia peristenia
  • Spanish Gold Grindelia ciliata
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