Top native arums and duckweeds
29 species, native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.
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Golden Club
Orontium aquaticum
caterpillars
4
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Eastern Skunk Cabbage
Symplocarpus foetidus
caterpillars
2
food
3
flowers
6
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Jack-in-the-Pulpit
Arisaema triphyllum
caterpillars
2
food
2
flowers
11
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Common Duckweed
Lemna minor
caterpillars
1
food
17
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Ivy-leaved Duckweed
Lemna trisulca
caterpillars
1
food
11
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Valdivia Duckweed
Lemna valdiviana
caterpillars
1
food
8
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Lesser Duckweed
Lemna aequinoctialis
caterpillars
1
food
7
flowers
1
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Least Duckweed
Lemna minuta
caterpillars
1
food
7
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Turion Duckweed
Lemna turionifera
caterpillars
1
food
7
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Fat Duckweed
Lemna gibba
caterpillars
1
food
7
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Little Duckweed
Lemna obscura
caterpillars
1
food
7
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Water Lettuce
Pistia stratiotes
caterpillars
1
food
1
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Greater Duckweed
Spirodela polyrhiza
food
7
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Marsh Calla
Calla palustris
food
4
flowers
1
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Western Skunk Cabbage
Lysichiton americanus
food
1
flowers
1
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Brazilian Watermeal
Wolffia brasiliensis
food
1
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Columbian Watermeal
Wolffia columbiana
food
1
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Dotted Watermeal
Wolffia borealis
food
1
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Asian Watermeal
Wolffia globosa
food
1
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Green Arrow Arum
Peltandra virginica
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Green Dragon
Arisaema dracontium
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Five-leaved Jack-in-the-pulpit
Arisaema quinatum
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Small Jack-in-the-pulpit
Arisaema pusillum
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Bog Jack-in-the-pulpit
Arisaema stewardsonii
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Dotted Duckweed
Landoltia punctata
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White Arrow Arum
Peltandra sagittifolia
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Sword Bogmat
Wolffiella gladiata
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Tongue-Shape Bogmat
Wolffiella lingulata
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Minute Duckweed
Lemna perpusilla