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  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
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  6. Brush-footed Butterflies
  7. Checkerspots
  8. Baltimore Checkerspot
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What supports Baltimore Checkerspot

266 native plants
support it in the US
165 caterpillar hosts 101 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

165 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • White Turtlehead Chelone glabra
  • Canadian Lousewort Pedicularis canadensis
  • White Ash Fraxinus americana
  • Allegheny Monkeyflower Mimulus ringens
  • American Fly-honeysuckle Lonicera canadensis
  • Swamp Fly Honeysuckle Lonicera oblongifolia
  • Beaked Cornsalad Valerianella radiata
  • Hairy Beardtongue Penstemon hirsutus
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Butterfly Milkweed Asclepias tuberosa
  • Swamp Milkweed Asclepias incarnata
  • Hemp Dogbane Apocynum cannabinum
  • Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea
  • Black-eyed Susan Rudbeckia hirta
  • Spreading Dogbane Apocynum androsaemifolium
  • Common Yarrow Achillea millefolium
  • Purple Milkweed Asclepias purpurascens
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