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  6. Metalmark Butterflies
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  8. Swamp Metalmark
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What supports Swamp Metalmark

14 native plants
support it in the US
7 caterpillar hosts 7 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

7 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Swamp Thistle Cirsium muticum
  • Tall Thistle Cirsium altissimum
  • Bristle Thistle Cirsium horridulum on plume thistles
  • Field Thistle Cirsium discolor on plume thistles
  • Wavyleaf Thistle Cirsium undulatum on plume thistles
  • Engelmann's Thistle Cirsium engelmannii on plume thistles
  • Soft Thistle Cirsium carolinianum on plume thistles

Nectar plants All

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

  • White Snakeroot Ageratina altissima
  • Black-eyed Susan Rudbeckia hirta
  • Tall Goldenrod Solidago altissima keystone
  • Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea
  • Brown-eyed Susan Rudbeckia triloba
  • New Jersey Tea Ceanothus americanus
  • Whorled Mountain Mint Pycnanthemum verticillatum

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