Bloom Native gardener's
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  8. Melissa Arctic
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What supports Melissa Arctic

197 native plants
support it in the US
194 caterpillar hosts 3 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

194 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Bigelow's Sedge Carex bigelowii keystone
  • Rock Sedge Carex rupestris keystone
  • Wavy Hair-grass Avenella flexuosa
  • Sallow Sedge Carex lurida keystone on true sedges
  • Bladder Sedge Carex intumescens keystone on true sedges
  • Pennsylvania Sedge Carex pensylvanica keystone on true sedges
  • Eastern Woodland Sedge Carex blanda keystone on true sedges
  • Fox Sedge Carex vulpinoidea keystone on true sedges
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Common Yarrow Achillea millefolium
  • Siberian Aster Eurybia sibirica
  • Greenland Stitchwort Mononeuria groenlandica

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