What supports Field Skipper

154 native plants
support it in the US

40 caterpillar hosts 114 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

40 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

• Saint Augustine Grass Stenotaphrum secundatum
• Red Fescue Festuca rubra keystone
• Saltgrass Distichlis spicata
• Wood Meadow-grass Poa nemoralis keystone on bluegrasses
• Swamp Meadow-grass Poa palustris keystone on bluegrasses
• Alpine Bluegrass Poa alpina keystone on bluegrasses
• Pine Bluegrass Poa secunda keystone on bluegrasses
• Sixweeks Grass Festuca octoflora keystone on fescues

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Nectar plants All

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

• Coyote Brush Baccharis pilularis
• California Buckwheat Eriogonum fasciculatum
• Rubber Rabbitbrush Ericameria nauseosa
• Pacific Aster Symphyotrichum chilense keystone
• Turkey Tangle Frogfruit Phyla nodiflora
• Snow Buckwheat Eriogonum niveum
• Alkali Heliotrope Heliotropium curassavicum
• Mealy Blue Sage Salvia farinacea

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