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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Gentians, Dogbanes, Madders, and Allies
  6. Coffees, Bedstraws, and Allies
  7. Hamelia
  8. Firebush
  9. Supports

What Firebush supports

112 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 36 food 75 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Desmia tages

Plant eaters All

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

  • Black-throated Blue Warbler Setophaga caerulescens
  • Southern Paper Wasp Polistes bellicosus
  • Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus
  • Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
  • Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
  • Summer Tanager Piranga rubra
  • Clay-colored Thrush Turdus grayi
  • Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Zebra Longwing Heliconius charithonia
  • Orange-barred Sulphur Phoebis philea
  • Large Orange Sulphur Phoebis agarithe
  • Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
  • Statira Sulphur Phoebis statira
  • Monarch Danaus plexippus
  • American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus
  • Eastern Giant Swallowtail Heraclides cresphontes
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