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  6. Brush-footed Butterflies
  7. Ladies and Related Admirals
  8. Red Admiral
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What supports Red Admiral

1,789 native plants
support it in the US
12 caterpillar hosts 1,777 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

12 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • False Nettle Boehmeria cylindrica
  • Slender Stinging Nettle Urtica gracilis
  • Wood Nettle Laportea canadensis
  • Florida Pellitory Parietaria floridana
  • Pennsylvania Pellitory Parietaria pensylvanica
  • Māmaki Pipturus albidus
  • Heartleaf Nettle Urtica chamaedryoides on nettles
  • Rillita Pellitory Parietaria hespera on pellitories
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Nectar plants All

1,777 native plants whose flowers it visits, most recorded first.

  • Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea
  • Wild Bergamot Monarda fistulosa
  • New England Aster Symphyotrichum novae-angliae keystone
  • Spotted Joe-Pye Weed Eutrochium maculatum
  • Common Manzanita Arctostaphylos manzanita
  • Spreading Dogbane Apocynum androsaemifolium
  • Flat-topped Goldenrod Euthamia graminifolia
  • Mealy Blue Sage Salvia farinacea
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