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  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
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  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Brush-footed Butterflies
  7. Patches and Allied Checkerspots
  8. Sierra Nevada Checkerspot
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What supports Sierra Nevada Checkerspot

44 native plants
support it in the US
37 caterpillar hosts 7 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

37 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Large-leaved Goldenrod Solidago macrophylla keystone
  • Horseweed Erigeron canadensis on fleabanes and horseweeds
  • Philadelphia Fleabane Erigeron philadelphicus on fleabanes and horseweeds
  • Aspen Fleabane Erigeron speciosus on fleabanes and horseweeds
  • Spreading Fleabane Erigeron divergens on fleabanes and horseweeds
  • Subalpine Fleabane Erigeron glacialis on fleabanes and horseweeds
  • Velvety Goldenrod Solidago velutina keystone on goldenrods
  • Cut-leaf Fleabane Erigeron compositus on fleabanes and horseweeds
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Alpine Sunflower Hymenoxys grandiflora
  • Moss Campion Silene acaulis
  • American Bistort Bistorta bistortoides
  • Narrowleaf Mule-ears Wyethia angustifolia
  • Subalpine Arnica Arnica rydbergii
  • Rockslide Fleabane Erigeron leiomerus
  • Large-flower Fleabane Erigeron grandiflorus

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