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  7. Straight Swifts
  8. Common Straight Swift
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What supports Common Straight Swift

10 native plants
support it in the US
5 caterpillar hosts 5 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

5 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Common Reed Phragmites australis
  • Broadleaf Cattail Typha latifolia
  • Reed Canary Grass Phalaris arundinacea
  • Broomsedge Bluestem Anatherum virginicum
  • Hilograss Paspalum conjugatum

Nectar plants All

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

  • Lance-leaved Coreopsis Coreopsis lanceolata
  • Scrambling Dayflower Commelina diffusa
  • Annual Fleabane Erigeron annuus
  • Hairy White Oldfield Aster Symphyotrichum pilosum keystone
  • Jerusalem Artichoke Helianthus tuberosus keystone

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