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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
  6. Plantain Family
  7. Beardtongues
  8. Penstemon
  9. Whipple's Penstemon
  10. Supports

What Whipple's Penstemon supports

56 native animals
supported in the US
6 caterpillars 2 food 48 flowers

Caterpillars All

6 native moths and butterflies raised on it, most recorded first.

  • Anicia Checkerspot Euphydryas anicia
  • Dotted Checkerspot Poladryas minuta on beardtongues
  • Variable Checkerspot Euphydryas chalcedona on beardtongues
  • Edith's Checkerspot Euphydryas editha on beardtongues
  • California Tiger Moth Leptarctia californiae on beardtongues
  • Penstemon Borer Penstemonia edwardsii on beardtongues

Plant eaters All

2 native animals that feed on it, most recorded first.

  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo on beardtongues
  • Rufous Hummingbird Selasphorus rufus on beardtongues

Flower visitors All

48 native pollinators and other flower visitors, most recorded first.

  • Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee Bombus flavifrons
  • Fuzzy-Horned Bumble Bee Bombus mixtus
  • Forest Bumble Bee Bombus sylvicola
  • Black-and-gray Leafcutter Bee Megachile melanophaea Pollen specialist on Astragalus, Lupinus and Hedysarum
  • Western Bumble Bee Bombus occidentalis
  • Bufflehead Mason Bee Osmia bucephala
  • Golden-belted Bumble Bee Bombus kirbiellus
  • Two-spotted Bumble Bee Bombus bimaculatus on beardtongues
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