What supports Large Heath

85 native plants
support it in the US

63 caterpillar hosts 22 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

63 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

• Common Cottongrass Eriophorum angustifolium
• White Beak-sedge Rhynchospora alba
• Tussock Cottongrass Eriophorum vaginatum
• Wood Meadow-grass Poa nemoralis keystone
• Swamp Meadow-grass Poa palustris keystone
• Alpine Bluegrass Poa alpina keystone
• Glaucous Bluegrass Poa glauca keystone
• Sallow Sedge Carex lurida keystone

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Nectar plants All

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

• Water Avens Geum rivale
• Common Yarrow Achillea millefolium
• Field Chickweed Cerastium arvense
• Chokecherry Prunus virginiana keystone
• Virginia Strawberry Fragaria virginiana keystone
• Western Wallflower Erysimum capitatum
• Lanceleaf Stonecrop Sedum lanceolatum
• Antelope Bitterbrush Purshia tridentata

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