What supports Small Heath

44 native plants
support it in the US

7 caterpillar hosts 37 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

7 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

• Tufted Hair Grass Deschampsia cespitosa
• Wood Meadow-grass Poa nemoralis keystone
• Wavy Hair-grass Avenella flexuosa
• Red Fescue Festuca rubra keystone
• Swamp Meadow-grass Poa palustris keystone
• Alpine Bluegrass Poa alpina keystone
• Glaucous Bluegrass Poa glauca keystone

Nectar plants All

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

• Common Yarrow Achillea millefolium
• Lesser Spearwort Ranunculus flammula
• Common Selfheal Prunella vulgaris
• Cuckooflower Cardamine pratensis
• Common Water-crowfoot Ranunculus aquatilis
• Canada Goldenrod Solidago canadensis keystone
• Horned Dandelion Taraxacum ceratophorum
• Annual Fleabane Erigeron annuus

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