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  3. Arthropods
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  6. Skippers
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  8. Broad-winged Skipper
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What supports Broad-winged Skipper

486 native plants
support it in the US
267 caterpillar hosts 219 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

267 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Common Reed Phragmites australis
  • Annual Wild Rice Zizania aquatica
  • Lake Sedge Carex lacustris keystone
  • Giant Cutgrass Zizaniopsis miliacea
  • Sallow Sedge Carex lurida keystone
  • Bladder Sedge Carex intumescens keystone on true sedges
  • Pennsylvania Sedge Carex pensylvanica keystone on true sedges
  • Eastern Woodland Sedge Carex blanda keystone on true sedges
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Swamp Milkweed Asclepias incarnata
  • Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea
  • Pickerelweed Pontederia cordata
  • Sweet Pepperbush Clethra alnifolia
  • Wild Bergamot Monarda fistulosa
  • Hemp Dogbane Apocynum cannabinum
  • Mealy Blue Sage Salvia farinacea
  • Spotted Joe-Pye Weed Eutrochium maculatum
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