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  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
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  6. Skippers
  7. Euphyes
  8. Palmetto Skipper
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What supports Palmetto Skipper

40 native plants
support it in the US
4 caterpillar hosts 36 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

4 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Saw Palmetto Serenoa repens
  • Scrub Palmetto Sabal etonia
  • Cabbage Palmetto Sabal palmetto on palmettos
  • Dwarf Palmetto Sabal minor on palmettos

Nectar plants All

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

  • Coastalplain Chaffhead Carphephorus corymbosus
  • Bristle Thistle Cirsium horridulum
  • Curtiss's Milkweed Asclepias curtissii
  • Ashe's Calamint Clinopodium ashei
  • White Beggarticks Bidens alba
  • Shortleaf Gayfeather Liatris quadriflora
  • Savanna Iris Iris tridentata
  • Rosy Camphorweed Pluchea baccharis
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