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What supports Purple-backed Cabbageworm Moth

102 native plants
support it in the US
28 caterpillar hosts 74 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

28 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Cuckooflower Cardamine pratensis
  • Spotted Joe-Pye Weed Eutrochium maculatum
  • Sand Bittercress Cardamine parviflora
  • Alpine Bittercress Cardamine bellidifolia
  • Cut-leaved Toothwort Cardamine concatenata on bitter cress
  • Milkmaids Cardamine californica on bitter cress
  • Two-leaved Toothwort Cardamine diphylla on bitter cress
  • Purple Cress Cardamine douglassii on bitter cress
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Nectar plants All

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

  • White Snakeroot Ageratina altissima
  • Anise Hyssop Agastache foeniculum
  • Great Blue Lobelia Lobelia siphilitica
  • Blue Vervain Verbena hastata
  • Common Wrinkle-leaved Goldenrod Solidago rugosa keystone
  • Common Boneset Eupatorium perfoliatum
  • Obedient Plant Physostegia virginiana
  • Clustered Mountainmint Pycnanthemum muticum
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