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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
  6. Legumes
  7. Locoweeds
  8. Showy Locoweed
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What Showy Locoweed supports

17 native animals
supported in the US
4 caterpillars 13 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Queen Alexandra’s Sulphur Colias alexandra
  • Labrador Sulphur Colias nastes
  • Mead's Sulphur Colias meadii on locoweeds
  • Melissa Blue Plebejus melissa on locoweeds

Flower visitors All

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

  • Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee Bombus flavifrons
  • Vancouver Bumble Bee Bombus vancouverensis
  • Greenish Blue Icaricia saepiolus
  • Great Basin Bumble Bee Bombus centralis
  • Golden Northern Bumble Bee Bombus fervidus
  • Northern Arches Drasteria hudsonica
  • Osmia longula Pollen specialist on Astragalus, Lupinus and Hedysarum
  • Nuttall's Blister Beetle Lytta nuttalli on locoweeds
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