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  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
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  6. Brush-footed Butterflies
  7. Tortoiseshells
  8. California Tortoiseshell
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What supports California Tortoiseshell

196 native plants
support it in the US
42 caterpillar hosts 154 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

42 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Buckbrush Ceanothus cuneatus
  • Snowbrush Ceanothus Ceanothus velutinus
  • Fendler's Ceanothus Ceanothus fendleri
  • Blueblossom Ceanothus thyrsiflorus
  • Mountain Whitethorn Ceanothus cordulatus
  • Redstem Ceanothus Ceanothus sanguineus
  • Greasewood Sarcobatus vermiculatus
  • Deerbrush Ceanothus Ceanothus integerrimus
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Nectar plants All

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

  • California Buckeye Aesculus californica
  • Toyon Heteromeles arbutifolia
  • Big Berry Manzanita Arctostaphylos glauca
  • Common Manzanita Arctostaphylos manzanita
  • Coffeeberry Frangula californica
  • Arroyo Willow Salix lasiolepis keystone
  • Mountain Coyote Mint Monardella odoratissima
  • Hairy Yerba Santa Eriodictyon trichocalyx
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