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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Blazing-stars
  8. Elegant Gayfeather
  9. Supports

What Elegant Gayfeather supports

72 native animals
supported in the US
6 caterpillars 1 hosts 65 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Wavy-lined Emerald Synchlora aerata on blazing-stars
  • Ailanthus Webworm Moth Atteva aurea on blazing-stars
  • Master's Dart Feltia herilis on blazing-stars
  • Three-lined Flower Moth Schinia trifascia on blazing-stars
  • Bleeding Flower Moth Schinia sanguinea on blazing-stars
  • Blazing Star Clearwing Carmenta anthracipennis on blazing-stars

Hosted animals All

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

  • Asphondylia lacinariae on blazing-stars

Flower visitors All

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

  • Gulf Fritillary Dione vanillae
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis on blazing-stars
  • Monarch Danaus plexippus on blazing-stars
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens on blazing-stars
  • Two-spotted Bumble Bee Bombus bimaculatus on blazing-stars
  • Southern Plains Bumble Bee Bombus fraternus on blazing-stars
  • Arogos Skipper Atrytone arogos on blazing-stars
  • American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus on blazing-stars
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