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White Mountain Fritillary- //Boloria Titania Montinus// The butterflies lives in the white mountains of New Hampshire. Biotic factors- plants, water, heath-shrub-rush, cushion-tussock. Abiotic- temperature, moisture, and winter snow cover. White Mountain fritillary inhabits wet-mesic alpine communities above 1,220 to 1,860 m, specifically wet alpine meadows, alpine streamside communities, and snowbank communities, alpine community. Just a place that has herbs and forbs, a source of nectar, and near a water source. Things the White Mountain Fritillary eat plants and things like Geum peckii, Solidago cutleri, Spiraea septentrio- nalis, Scirpus cespitous, Salix spp.

They are limited to the 2,800 ac alpine zone of the White Mountain National Forest.

It is a small butterfly with a wingspan of 1 1/8 to 1 3/8 inches (3 - 3.5 cm). [|www.wildlife.state.nh.us/...Plan/.../White%20Mountain%20Fritillary.pdf]

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