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  9. Tawny-edged Skipper
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What supports Tawny-edged Skipper

558 native plants
support it in the US
92 caterpillar hosts 466 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

92 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Slender Crabgrass Digitaria filiformis
  • Needleleaf Rosette Grass Dichanthelium aciculare
  • Deertongue Dichanthelium clandestinum
  • Switchgrass Panicum virgatum keystone on panicgrasses
  • Witch Grass Panicum capillare keystone on panicgrasses
  • Smooth Witchgrass Panicum dichotomiflorum keystone on panicgrasses
  • Bitter Panicgrass Panicum amarum keystone on panicgrasses
  • Maidencane Panicum hemitomon keystone on panicgrasses
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea
  • Blue Mistflower Conoclinium coelestinum
  • Swamp Milkweed Asclepias incarnata
  • Clustered Mountainmint Pycnanthemum muticum
  • Spreading Dogbane Apocynum androsaemifolium
  • Common Selfheal Prunella vulgaris
  • New England Aster Symphyotrichum novae-angliae keystone
  • Wild Bergamot Monarda fistulosa
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