Top native monocots
75 species, native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.
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Roundleaf Greenbrier
Smilax rotundifolia
caterpillars
12
food
27
flowers
7
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Banana Yucca
Yucca baccata
caterpillars
9
hosts
1
food
2
flowers
9
shelter
1
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Common Yucca
Yucca filamentosa
caterpillars
8
food
2
flowers
2
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Aloe Yucca
Yucca aloifolia
caterpillars
8
food
2
flowers
2
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Great Plains Yucca
Yucca glauca
caterpillars
8
food
1
flowers
2
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Weak-leaf Yucca
Yucca flaccida
caterpillars
8
flowers
2
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Bristly Greenbrier
Smilax tamnoides
caterpillars
7
food
27
flowers
23
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Narrowleaf Yucca
Yucca angustissima
caterpillars
7
food
2
flowers
2
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Torrey's Yucca
Yucca torreyi
caterpillars
7
food
1
flowers
2
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Navajo Yucca
Yucca baileyi
caterpillars
7
food
1
flowers
2
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Arkansas Yucca
Yucca arkansana
caterpillars
7
flowers
2
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Gulf Coast Yucca
Yucca louisianensis
caterpillars
7
flowers
2
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Earleaf Greenbrier
Smilax auriculata
caterpillars
6
hosts
1
food
29
flowers
8
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Chaparral Yucca
Hesperoyucca whipplei
caterpillars
6
hosts
1
food
2
flowers
6
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Sarsaparilla Vine
Smilax pumila
caterpillars
6
food
25
flowers
2
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Coral Greenbrier
Smilax walteri
caterpillars
6
food
7
flowers
2
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Soaptree Yucca
Yucca elata
caterpillars
6
food
4
flowers
2
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Twisted-leaf Yucca
Yucca rupicola
caterpillars
6
flowers
2
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Pale Yucca
Yucca pallida
caterpillars
6
flowers
2
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Glen Rose Yucca
Yucca necopina
caterpillars
6
flowers
2
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San Angelo Yucca
Yucca reverchonii
caterpillars
6
flowers
2
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Western Joshua Tree
Yucca brevifolia
caterpillars
5
hosts
2
food
1
flowers
18
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Plains Yucca
Yucca campestris
caterpillars
5
food
1
flowers
10
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Moundlily Yucca
Yucca gloriosa
caterpillars
5
food
1
flowers
2
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Hill Cane
Arundinaria appalachiana
caterpillars
5
food
1
flowers
1
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Thorn-crested Agave
Agave lophantha
caterpillars
4
food
7
flowers
6
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Lechuguilla
Agave lechuguilla
caterpillars
4
food
4
flowers
5
shelter
1
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Slim-footed Agave
Agave gracilipes
caterpillars
4
food
4
flowers
5
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Curve-leaf Yucca
Yucca recurvifolia
caterpillars
4
flowers
2
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Sacahuista
Nolina microcarpa
caterpillars
4
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Goldenflower Century Plant
Agave chrysantha
caterpillars
3
hosts
1
food
6
flowers
7
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Mojave Yucca
Yucca schidigera
caterpillars
3
hosts
1
food
2
flowers
17
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Desert Agave
Agave deserti
caterpillars
3
food
7
flowers
12
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Toumey's Century Plant
Agave toumeyana
caterpillars
3
food
6
flowers
6
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Texas Sacahuiste
Nolina texana
caterpillars
3
flowers
2
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Dwarf Yucca
Yucca harrimaniae
caterpillars
3
flowers
2
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Woodland Beargrass
Nolina greenei
caterpillars
3
flowers
1
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Utah Agave
Agave utahensis
caterpillars
2
food
4
flowers
4
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Havard's Century Plant
Agave havardiana
caterpillars
2
food
3
flowers
5
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Rough Century Plant
Agave asperrima
caterpillars
2
food
3
flowers
2
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Scrub Palmetto
Sabal etonia
caterpillars
2
food
1
flowers
17
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Foothill Beargrass
Nolina erumpens
caterpillars
2
food
1
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Devil's Shoestring
Nolina lindheimeriana
caterpillars
2
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Chaparral Beargrass
Nolina micrantha
caterpillars
2
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Wheeler Sotol
Dasylirion wheeleri
caterpillars
1
hosts
4
food
1
flowers
10
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Shaw's Agave
Agave shawii
caterpillars
1
food
2
flowers
7
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California Greenbrier
Smilax californica
caterpillars
1
food
2
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Dwarf Palmetto
Sabal minor
caterpillars
1
flowers
5
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Parry's Nolina
Nolina parryi
caterpillars
1
flowers
5
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Bigelow's Nolina
Nolina bigelovii
caterpillars
1