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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Elephant's Feet
  8. Leafy Elephant's-foot
  9. Supports

What Leafy Elephant's-foot supports

35 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 3 food 30 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Cremastobombycia ignota
  • Perilla Leaf Moth Pyrausta phoenicealis on elephant's feet

Plant eaters All

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

  • Fraternal Potter Wasp Eumenes fraternus
  • Parancistrocerus pedestris
  • Calleida punctata

Flower visitors All

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

  • Two-spotted Longhorn Bee Melissodes bimaculatus
  • Gulf Fritillary Dione vanillae
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Papilio glaucus
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa virginica
  • Silver-spotted Skipper Epargyreus clarus
  • Huron Skipper Atalopedes huron
  • American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus
  • Peck's Skipper Polites peckius
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