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  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
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  6. Skippers
  7. Branded Skippers
  8. Meske's Skipper
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What supports Meske's Skipper

50 native plants
support it in the US
20 caterpillar hosts 30 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

20 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Arrowfeather Threeawn Aristida purpurascens
  • Little Bluestem Schizachyrium scoparium
  • Southern Wiregrass Aristida beyrichiana on threeawns and wiregrasses
  • Bottlebrush Threeawn Aristida spiciformis on threeawns and wiregrasses
  • Wire Grass Aristida stricta on threeawns and wiregrasses
  • Oldfield Three-awn Aristida oligantha on threeawns and wiregrasses
  • Seaside Threeawn Aristida tuberculosa on threeawns and wiregrasses
  • Slim-spike Three-awn Grass Aristida longespica on threeawns and wiregrasses
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Nectar plants All

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

  • White Beggarticks Bidens alba
  • Coastalplain Chaffhead Carphephorus corymbosus
  • Coastal Plain Honeycombhead Balduina angustifolia
  • Summer Farewell Dalea pinnata
  • Dense Blazing Star Liatris spicata on blazing-stars
  • Prairie Blazing Star Liatris pycnostachya on blazing-stars
  • Rough Blazing Star Liatris aspera on blazing-stars
  • Scaly Blazing Star Liatris squarrosa on blazing-stars
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