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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Borages
  6. Borage Family
  7. Scorpionweeds
  8. Section Glandulosae
  9. Gypsum Phacelia
  10. Supports

What Gypsum Phacelia supports

53 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 2 bees 1 food 49 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Zeller's Ethmia Moth Ethmia zelleriella on scorpionweeds

Specialist bees All

2 native bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it, most recorded first.

  • Anthidium palmarum Pollen specialist on Phacelia on scorpionweeds
  • Anthidium mormonum Pollen specialist on Phacelia on scorpionweeds

Plant eaters All

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

  • White-bowed Smoothwing Scaeva affinis on scorpionweeds

Flower visitors All

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

  • Spotted Woolcarder Anthidium maculosum
  • Scorpionweed Pollen Wasp Pseudomasaris phaceliae
  • California Digger Bee Anthophora californica
  • Northern Rotund-Resin Bee Anthidiellum notatum
  • Perdita marcialis
  • Tripartite Sweat Bee Halictus tripartitus
  • Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee Bombus flavifrons on scorpionweeds
  • Colorado Black-notched Bumble Bee Bombus bifarius on scorpionweeds
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