| West Indian Beggar’s-ticks
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| Desmodium incanum
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Larval host plant for gray hairstreak (Strymon melinus), long-tailed skipper (Urbanus proteus) and the recently establish dorantes skipper (Urbanus dorantes) butterflies |
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George D. Gann, in habitat, Rockdale Pineland
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