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What supports Long-tailed Skipper

410 native plants
support it in the US
33 caterpillar hosts 377 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

33 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Wild Cowpea Vigna luteola
  • Honey Mesquite Neltuma glandulosa
  • American Wisteria Wisteria frutescens
  • American Hog-peanut Amphicarpaea bracteata
  • Pigeonwings Clitoria mariana
  • Florida Beggarweed Desmodium tortuosum
  • Hoary Tick-trefoil Desmodium canescens
  • Velvetleaf Ticktrefoil Desmodium viridiflorum
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Nectar plants All

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

  • White Beggarticks Bidens alba
  • Blue Mistflower Conoclinium coelestinum
  • Snow Squarestem Melanthera nivea
  • Blue Porterweed Stachytarpheta jamaicensis
  • Frostweed Verbesina virginica
  • Firebush Hamelia patens
  • Coastalplain Chaffhead Carphephorus corymbosus
  • False Rosemary Conradina canescens
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