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  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
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  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Brush-footed Butterflies
  7. Crescents
  8. Painted Crescent
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What supports Painted Crescent

22 native plants
support it in the US
20 caterpillar hosts 2 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

20 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Gregg's Tube Tongue Justicia pilosella
  • New England Aster Symphyotrichum novae-angliae keystone on american asters
  • Panicled Aster Symphyotrichum lanceolatum keystone on american asters
  • Smooth Blue Aster Symphyotrichum laeve keystone on american asters
  • White Heath Aster Symphyotrichum ericoides keystone on american asters
  • Southern Annual Saltmarsh Aster Symphyotrichum divaricatum keystone on american asters
  • Drummond's Aster Symphyotrichum drummondii keystone on american asters
  • Annual Saltmarsh Aster Symphyotrichum subulatum keystone on american asters
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Hairy False Goldenaster Heterotheca villosa
  • Missouri Goldenrod Solidago missouriensis keystone

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