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  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
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  6. Brush-footed Butterflies
  7. Checkerspots
  8. Variable Checkerspot
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What supports Variable Checkerspot

1,094 native plants
support it in the US
265 caterpillar hosts 829 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

265 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Orange Bush Monkeyflower Diplacus aurantiacus
  • Chaparral Beardtongue Keckiella antirrhinoides
  • California Beeplant Scrophularia californica
  • Felt Paintbrush Castilleja foliolosa
  • Smooth Mule-ears Wyethia glabra
  • Common Snowberry Symphoricarpos albus
  • Warrior's Plume Pedicularis densiflora
  • Heartleaf Keckiella Keckiella cordifolia
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Nectar plants All

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

  • California Buckeye Aesculus californica
  • California Yerba Santa Eriodictyon californicum
  • Common Yarrow Achillea millefolium
  • Golden Yarrow Eriophyllum confertiflorum
  • Blue Dicks Dipterostemon capitatus
  • Acton Brittlebush Encelia actoni
  • Coyote Mint Monardella villosa
  • Narrowleaf Mule-ears Wyethia angustifolia
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