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  8. Byssus Skipper
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What supports Byssus Skipper

23 native plants
support it in the US
3 caterpillar hosts 20 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

3 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Eastern Gamagrass Tripsacum dactyloides
  • Big Bluestem Andropogon gerardi
  • Sand Bluestem Andropogon hallii on bluestems

Nectar plants All

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

  • Nuttall's Thistle Cirsium nuttallii
  • White Beggarticks Bidens alba
  • Wild Bergamot Monarda fistulosa
  • Snow Squarestem Melanthera nivea
  • Pickerelweed Pontederia cordata
  • Hoary Vervain Verbena stricta
  • Narrowleaf Mountainmint Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
  • Dense Blazing Star Liatris spicata
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