What supports Dun Skipper

1,107 native plants
support it in the US

438 caterpillar hosts 669 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

438 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

• Yellow Nutsedge Cyperus esculentus
• Two-seeded Sedge Carex disperma keystone
• San Diego Sedge Carex spissa keystone
• Lake Sedge Carex lacustris keystone
• Purpletop Tridens Tridens flavus
• Long-stolon Sedge Carex inops keystone
• Sallow Sedge Carex lurida keystone on true sedges
• Bladder Sedge Carex intumescens keystone on true sedges

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Nectar plants All

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

• Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea
• Wild Bergamot Monarda fistulosa
• Swamp Milkweed Asclepias incarnata
• Common Selfheal Prunella vulgaris
• Blue Mistflower Conoclinium coelestinum
• Narrowleaf Mountainmint Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
• Pickerelweed Pontederia cordata
• Spreading Dogbane Apocynum androsaemifolium

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