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  8. Common Sootywing
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What supports Common Sootywing

155 native plants
support it in the US
61 caterpillar hosts 94 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

61 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Pitseed Goosefoot Chenopodium berlandieri
  • Common Lambsquarters Chenopodium album
  • Redroot Amaranth Amaranthus retroflexus
  • Prostrate Pigweed Amaranthus albus
  • Smooth Pigweed Amaranthus hybridus
  • Mexican Tea Dysphania ambrosioides
  • Palmer's Amaranth Amaranthus palmeri on amaranths
  • Procumbent Pigweed Amaranthus blitoides on amaranths
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea
  • False Sunflower Heliopsis helianthoides
  • Rocky Mountain Zinnia Zinnia grandiflora
  • Alkali Heliotrope Heliotropium curassavicum
  • Black-eyed Susan Rudbeckia hirta
  • Swamp Milkweed Asclepias incarnata
  • Lanceleaf Blanketflower Gaillardia aestivalis
  • Rocky Mountain Blazing Star Liatris ligulistylis
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