Bloom Native gardener's
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  3. Arthropods
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  6. Skippers
  7. Thymelicus
  8. Essex Skipper
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What supports Essex Skipper

75 native plants
support it in the US
5 caterpillar hosts 70 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

5 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Tufted Hair Grass Deschampsia cespitosa
  • Reed Canary Grass Phalaris arundinacea
  • Alpine Timothy Phleum alpinum
  • Scandinavian Small-reed Calamagrostis purpurea
  • Slim-stem Small-reedgrass Calamagrostis stricta

Nectar plants All

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

  • Common Yarrow Achillea millefolium
  • Common Selfheal Prunella vulgaris
  • Spreading Dogbane Apocynum androsaemifolium
  • Fireweed Chamaenerion angustifolium
  • Canada Hawkweed Hieracium umbellatum
  • Common Milkweed Asclepias syriaca
  • Swamp Milkweed Asclepias incarnata
  • White Meadowsweet Spiraea alba
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