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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Whitetops
  8. Flat-top White Aster
  9. Supports

What Flat-top White Aster supports

176 native animals
supported in the US
19 caterpillars 1 hosts 2 food 154 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Harris's Checkerspot Chlosyne harrisii
  • Brown-hooded Owlet Cucullia convexipennis
  • Gnorimoschema gallaeasterella
  • Unspotted Looper Moth Allagrapha aerea
  • Pearl Crescent Phyciodes tharos
  • Otter Spiramater Moth Spiramater lutra
  • Silvery Checkerspot Chlosyne nycteis
  • Striped Garden Caterpillar Moth Trichordestra legitima
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Hosted animals All

1 native gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it, most recorded first.

  • Nemorimyza posticata

Plant eaters All

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

  • Spotted Pink Lady Beetle Coleomegilla maculata
  • Caribou Rangifer tarandus

Flower visitors All

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

  • Northern Paper Wasp Polistes fuscatus
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Eastern Calligrapher Toxomerus geminatus
  • Eastern Yellowjacket Vespula maculifrons
  • Common Aerial Yellowjacket Dolichovespula arenaria
  • Bald-faced Hornet Dolichovespula maculata
  • Hairy-banded Mining Bee Andrena hirticincta Pollen specialist on Solidago, Symphyotrichum, Grindelia and 1 more
  • Monarch Danaus plexippus
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