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  8. Cassius Blue
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What supports Cassius Blue

131 native plants
support it in the US
44 caterpillar hosts 87 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

44 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Wild Cowpea Vigna luteola
  • Wild Leadwort Plumbago zeylanica
  • Wild Crapemyrtle Malpighia glabra
  • Eastern Milk-pea Galactia regularis
  • Eastern Milkpea Galactia volubilis
  • Shrubby Indigo Indigofera suffruticosa
  • Blackbead Pithecellobium keyense on blackbeads
  • Catclaw Blackbead Pithecellobium unguis-cati on blackbeads
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Nectar plants All

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

  • White Beggarticks Bidens alba
  • Scorpion's-tail Heliotropium angiospermum
  • Turkey Tangle Frogfruit Phyla nodiflora
  • Blue Mistflower Conoclinium coelestinum
  • Snow Squarestem Melanthera nivea
  • Catstongue Priva lappulacea
  • Shiny-leaved Wild Coffee Psychotria nervosa
  • River Sage Salvia misella
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