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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
  6. Mint Family
  7. Perilla
  8. Beefsteak Plant
  9. Supports

What Beefsteak Plant supports

33 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 4 food 27 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Virginian Tiger Moth Spilosoma virginica
  • Perilla Leaf Moth Pyrausta phoenicealis

Plant eaters All

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

  • American Goldfinch Spinus tristis
  • Diamondback Spittlebug Lepyronia quadrangularis
  • Ringed Paper Wasp Polistes annularis
  • Greater Anglewing Microcentrum rhombifolium

Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Pseudodynerus quadrisectus
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa virginica
  • Goldenrod Soldier Beetle Chauliognathus pensylvanicus
  • Fraternal Potter Wasp Eumenes fraternus
  • Blue-winged Scoliid Wasp Scolia dubia
  • American Nursery Web Spider Pisaurina mira
  • Summer Azure Celastrina neglecta
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