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    (c) Gordon Karre, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) rosiehoward, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Kent C. Jensen, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Liz Osborn, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) John Hibbard, some rights reserved (CC BY)

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Hoary Comma

Polygonia gracilis

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About

The hoary comma (Polygonia gracilis) is a species of butterfly, common in boreal North America from Alaska, across southern Canada to New England and the Maritime Provinces and south to New Mexico from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. The wings have a distinctive ragged edge.

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