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  3. Arthropods
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  7. Pygmy-Blues
  8. Western Pygmy-Blue
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What supports Western Pygmy-Blue

659 native plants
support it in the US
56 caterpillar hosts 603 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

56 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Fourwing Saltbush Atriplex canescens
  • Desert Holly Atriplex hymenelytra
  • Western Seapurslane Sesuvium verrucosum
  • Mojave Seablite Suaeda nigra
  • Big Saltbush Atriplex lentiformis
  • Saltwort Batis maritima
  • Desert Horse Purslane Trianthema portulacastrum
  • Beach Saltbush Atriplex leucophylla
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Alkali Heliotrope Heliotropium curassavicum
  • California Buckwheat Eriogonum fasciculatum
  • Coyote Brush Baccharis pilularis
  • Alkali Goldenbush Isocoma acradenia
  • Alkali Heath Frankenia salina
  • Rubber Rabbitbrush Ericameria nauseosa
  • Coastal Goldenbush Isocoma menziesii
  • Cowpen Daisy Verbesina encelioides
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