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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Gossamer-winged Butterflies
  7. Pygmy-Blues
  8. Eastern Pygmy-Blue
  9. Supported by

What supports Eastern Pygmy-Blue

10 native plants
support it in the US
4 caterpillar hosts 6 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

4 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Virginia Glasswort Salicornia depressa
  • Dwarf Glasswort Salicornia bigelovii
  • Perennial Glasswort Salicornia ambigua on pickleweeds
  • Perennial Glasswort Salicornia perennis on pickleweeds

Nectar plants All

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

  • Turkey Tangle Frogfruit Phyla nodiflora
  • White Beggarticks Bidens alba
  • Sea Ox-eye Borrichia frutescens
  • Sea Lavender Tournefortia gnaphalodes
  • Sea Purslane Sesuvium portulacastrum
  • Oakleaf Fleabane Erigeron quercifolius

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