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What supports Rita's Blue

12 native plants
support it in the US
12 caterpillar hosts

Caterpillar hosts All

12 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Slender Buckwheat Eriogonum microtheca
  • Sand Buckwheat Eriogonum leptocladon
  • Wright's Buckwheat Eriogonum wrightii
  • Bailey's Buckwheat Eriogonum baileyi
  • Money Buckwheat Eriogonum nummulare
  • Alpine Golden Buckwheat Eriogonum flavum
  • Heermann's Buckwheat Eriogonum heermannii
  • Yucca Wild Buckwheat Eriogonum plumatella
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