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  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
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  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Brush-footed Butterflies
  7. Commas
  8. Eastern Comma
  9. Supported by

What supports Eastern Comma

218 native plants
support it in the US
15 caterpillar hosts 203 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

15 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • False Nettle Boehmeria cylindrica
  • Common Hackberry Celtis occidentalis
  • Paper Birch Betula papyrifera keystone
  • Wood Nettle Laportea canadensis
  • American Elm Ulmus americana
  • Slender Stinging Nettle Urtica gracilis
  • Cedar Elm Ulmus crassifolia on elms
  • Winged Elm Ulmus alata on elms
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea
  • White Snakeroot Ageratina altissima
  • Hemp Dogbane Apocynum cannabinum
  • Spreading Dogbane Apocynum androsaemifolium
  • Spotted Joe-Pye Weed Eutrochium maculatum
  • Wild Hydrangea Hydrangea arborescens
  • Virginia Springbeauty Claytonia virginica
  • Common Pawpaw Asimina triloba
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