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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Brush-footed Butterflies
  7. Patches and Allied Checkerspots
  8. Silvery Checkerspot
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What supports Silvery Checkerspot

320 native plants
support it in the US
178 caterpillar hosts 142 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

178 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Black-eyed Susan Rudbeckia hirta
  • Wingstem Verbesina alternifolia
  • Cutleaf Coneflower Rudbeckia laciniata
  • Common Sunflower Helianthus annuus keystone
  • Frostweed Verbesina virginica
  • Jerusalem Artichoke Helianthus tuberosus keystone
  • Woodland Sunflower Helianthus divaricatus keystone
  • Pale Sunflower Helianthus decapetalus keystone
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Butterfly Milkweed Asclepias tuberosa
  • Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea
  • Lance-leaved Coreopsis Coreopsis lanceolata
  • Hemp Dogbane Apocynum cannabinum
  • Wild Bergamot Monarda fistulosa
  • Swamp Milkweed Asclepias incarnata
  • Narrowleaf Mountainmint Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
  • Hoary Puccoon Lithospermum canescens
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