Top native plants
10 species, native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.
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Carolina Vetch
Vicia caroliniana
caterpillars
11
food
7
flowers
69
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Purple Passionflower
Passiflora incarnata
caterpillars
10
bees
1
food
1
flowers
13
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Smooth Carrionflower
Smilax herbacea
caterpillars
8
food
6
flowers
16
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Wild Potato Vine
Ipomoea pandurata
caterpillars
7
bees
5
hosts
3
food
7
flowers
44
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Yellow Passionflower
Passiflora lutea
caterpillars
7
bees
1
food
3
flowers
32
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Eastern Milk-pea
Galactia regularis
caterpillars
6
food
1
flowers
17
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Carolina Climbing-milkweed
Matelea carolinensis
caterpillars
3
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Sessile Dodder
Cuscuta compacta
caterpillars
2
hosts
1
food
2
flowers
1
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Sidebeak Pencilflower
Stylosanthes biflora
caterpillars
2
flowers
18
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Southern Blue Monkshood
Aconitum uncinatum
caterpillars
2
flowers
1