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  6. Skippers
  7. Branded Skippers
  8. Common Branded Skipper
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What supports Common Branded Skipper

60 native plants
support it in the US
8 caterpillar hosts 52 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

8 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Red Fescue Festuca rubra keystone
  • Pine Bluegrass Poa secunda keystone
  • Needle Grama Bouteloua aristidoides
  • Glaucous Bluegrass Poa glauca keystone
  • Arctic Bluegrass Poa arctica keystone
  • Alpine Bluegrass Poa alpina keystone on bluegrasses
  • Altai Fescue Festuca altaica keystone on fescues
  • Large-flower Bluegrass Poa eminens keystone on bluegrasses

Nectar plants All

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

  • Common Yarrow Achillea millefolium
  • Lanceleaf Stonecrop Sedum lanceolatum
  • Small-flower Beardtongue Penstemon procerus
  • Common Selfheal Prunella vulgaris
  • Common Sunflower Helianthus annuus keystone
  • Cutleaf Coneflower Rudbeckia laciniata
  • Giant Goldenrod Solidago gigantea keystone
  • Marsh grass-of-Parnassus Parnassia palustris
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