Fringes are brown with a few white spots. Underside of hindwing is gray with white dusting outwardly and usually at least one white dot at the wing base.
Caterpillars eat leaves and live in tents of silked-together leaves.
Fully-grown caterpillars hibernate and pupate in a sealed nest at the base of the host plant. Nectar from flowers including Japanese honeysuckle, wild strawberry, blackberry, wild hyacinth, phlox, vervain, and red clover. Grasslands, prairies, barrens, and old fields. G4 - Apparently secure globally, though it might be quite rare in parts of its range, especially at the periphery. Opler, P. A. and G. O. Krizek.