What supports Gatekeeper

35 native plants
support it in the US

8 caterpillar hosts 27 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

8 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

• Wood Millet Milium effusum
• Red Fescue Festuca rubra keystone
• Tufted Hair Grass Deschampsia cespitosa
• Wood Meadow-grass Poa nemoralis keystone
• Swamp Meadow-grass Poa palustris keystone
• Alpine Timothy Phleum alpinum
• Alpine Bluegrass Poa alpina keystone
• Glaucous Bluegrass Poa glauca keystone

Nectar plants All

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

• Common Yarrow Achillea millefolium
• Herb Robert Geranium robertianum
• Canada Goldenrod Solidago canadensis keystone
• Common Silverweed Argentina anserina
• Chives Allium schoenoprasum
• California Barberry Berberis pinnata
• Annual Fleabane Erigeron annuus
• Red Raspberry Rubus idaeus

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