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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Brush-footed Butterflies
  7. Patches and Allied Checkerspots
  8. Northern Checkerspot
  9. Supported by

What supports Northern Checkerspot

349 native plants
support it in the US
129 caterpillar hosts 220 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

129 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Aspen Fleabane Erigeron speciosus
  • Rubber Rabbitbrush Ericameria nauseosa
  • Yellow Rabbitbrush Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus
  • Downy Goldenrod Solidago puberula keystone
  • New England Aster Symphyotrichum novae-angliae keystone on american asters
  • Panicled Aster Symphyotrichum lanceolatum keystone on american asters
  • Smooth Blue Aster Symphyotrichum laeve keystone on american asters
  • White Heath Aster Symphyotrichum ericoides keystone on american asters
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Common Woolly Sunflower Eriophyllum lanatum
  • Common Yarrow Achillea millefolium
  • Golden Yarrow Eriophyllum confertiflorum
  • California Buckeye Aesculus californica
  • Spreading Dogbane Apocynum androsaemifolium
  • California Yerba Santa Eriodictyon californicum
  • Narrowleaf Mule-ears Wyethia angustifolia
  • Bluehead Gilia Gilia capitata
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