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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Skippers
  7. Euphyes
  8. Palatka Skipper
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What supports Palatka Skipper

55 native plants
support it in the US
44 caterpillar hosts 11 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

44 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Swamp Sawgrass Cladium mariscus
  • Smooth Saw-grass Cladium mariscoides on sawgrasses
  • Tall Flatsedge Cyperus eragrostis on flatsedges
  • Straw-colored Flatsedge Cyperus strigosus on flatsedges
  • Fragrant Flatsedge Cyperus odoratus on flatsedges
  • Bunchy Flat-sedge Cyperus polystachyos on flatsedges
  • Baldwin's Flatsedge Cyperus croceus on flatsedges
  • Shortleaf Spikesedge Cyperus brevifolius on flatsedges
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Bristle Thistle Cirsium horridulum
  • White Beggarticks Bidens alba
  • Pickerelweed Pontederia cordata
  • Blue Porterweed Stachytarpheta jamaicensis
  • Rosy Camphorweed Pluchea baccharis
  • Narrowleaf Yellowtops Flaveria linearis
  • Climbing Hempvine Mikania scandens
  • Dense Blazing Star Liatris spicata
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