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  8. Great Purple Hairstreak
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What supports Great Purple Hairstreak

345 native plants
support it in the US
9 caterpillar hosts 336 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

9 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Mesquite Mistletoe Phoradendron californicum
  • Oak Mistletoe Phoradendron villosum
  • American Mistletoe Phoradendron leucarpum
  • Honey Mesquite Neltuma glandulosa
  • Juniper Mistletoe Phoradendron juniperinum
  • Broadleaf Mistletoe Phoradendron macrophyllum on mistletoe
  • Dense Mistletoe Phoradendron densum on mistletoe
  • Fir Mistletoe Phoradendron pauciflorum on mistletoe
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Coyote Brush Baccharis pilularis
  • California Buckwheat Eriogonum fasciculatum
  • Rubber Rabbitbrush Ericameria nauseosa
  • White Beggarticks Bidens alba
  • California Broomsage Lepidospartum squamatum
  • Alkali Goldenbush Isocoma acradenia
  • Frostweed Verbesina virginica
  • Shrubby Boneset Ageratina havanensis
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