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

40 native plants
support it in the US
28 caterpillar hosts 12 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

28 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Sideoats Grama Bouteloua curtipendula
  • Arrowfeather Threeawn Aristida purpurascens
  • Fall Witchgrass Digitaria cognata
  • Blue Grama Bouteloua gracilis on gramas
  • Purple Threeawn Aristida purpurea on threeawns and wiregrasses
  • Buffalograss Bouteloua dactyloides on gramas
  • Hairy Grama Bouteloua hirsuta on gramas
  • Texas Grama Bouteloua rigidiseta on gramas
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Coastal Plain Honeycombhead Balduina angustifolia
  • Ocala Lupine Lupinus ocalensis
  • Coastalplain Chaffhead Carphephorus corymbosus
  • Tall Elephant's-foot Elephantopus elatus
  • Florida False Sunflower Phoebanthus grandiflorus
  • Annual Fleabane Erigeron annuus
  • Blue Mistflower Conoclinium coelestinum
  • Sandhill Milkweed Asclepias humistrata
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