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  6. Skippers
  7. Branded Skippers
  8. Leonard's Skipper
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What supports Leonard's Skipper

265 native plants
support it in the US
84 caterpillar hosts 181 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

84 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Little Bluestem Schizachyrium scoparium
  • Switchgrass Panicum virgatum keystone
  • Poverty Oatgrass Danthonia spicata
  • Needle Grama Bouteloua aristidoides
  • Sideoats Grama Bouteloua curtipendula
  • Prairie Dropseed Sporobolus heterolepis
  • Mexican Lovegrass Eragrostis mexicana
  • Deertongue Dichanthelium clandestinum on rosette grasses
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Dotted Gayfeather Liatris punctata
  • Spotted Joe-Pye Weed Eutrochium maculatum
  • Cylindrical Blazing Star Liatris cylindracea
  • Rough Blazing Star Liatris aspera
  • Wild Bergamot Monarda fistulosa
  • Common Boneset Eupatorium perfoliatum
  • Flat-top White Aster Doellingeria umbellata
  • Swamp Aster Symphyotrichum puniceum keystone
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