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

46 native plants
support it in the US
23 caterpillar hosts 23 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

23 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Sidebells Penstemon Penstemon secundiflorus
  • Beardlip Penstemon Penstemon barbatus
  • Sawsepal Beardtongue Penstemon glaber
  • Cobaea Beardtongue Penstemon cobaea
  • Whipple's Penstemon Penstemon whippleanus on beardtongues
  • Rocky Mountain Beardtongue Penstemon strictus on beardtongues
  • Upright Blue Beardtongue Penstemon virgatus on beardtongues
  • White-flower Beardtongue Penstemon albidus on beardtongues
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Parsnipflower Buckwheat Eriogonum heracleoides
  • Common Yarrow Achillea millefolium
  • Butterfly Milkweed Asclepias tuberosa
  • Spreading Dogbane Apocynum androsaemifolium
  • Showy Milkweed Asclepias speciosa
  • Western Wallflower Erysimum capitatum
  • Great Blanketflower Gaillardia aristata
  • Lanceleaf Stonecrop Sedum lanceolatum
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