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  8. Mylitta Crescent
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What supports Mylitta Crescent

827 native plants
support it in the US
47 caterpillar hosts 780 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

47 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Seep Monkeyflower Erythranthe guttata
  • Cobwebby Thistle Cirsium occidentale
  • California Swamp Thistle Cirsium douglasii
  • Suisun Thistle Cirsium hydrophilum
  • Texas Thistle Cirsium texanum on plume thistles
  • Wavyleaf Thistle Cirsium undulatum on plume thistles
  • Elk Thistle Cirsium scariosum on plume thistles
  • New Mexico Thistle Cirsium neomexicanum on plume thistles
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Coyote Brush Baccharis pilularis
  • Narrowleaf Milkweed Asclepias fascicularis
  • Common Yarrow Achillea millefolium
  • Turkey Tangle Frogfruit Phyla nodiflora
  • California Buckwheat Eriogonum fasciculatum
  • Pacific Aster Symphyotrichum chilense keystone
  • Alkali Heliotrope Heliotropium curassavicum
  • California Buttercup Ranunculus californicus
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