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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
  6. Plantain Family
  7. Beardtongues
  8. Penstemon
  9. Chelan Penstemon
  10. Supports

What Chelan Penstemon supports

54 native animals
supported in the US
4 caterpillars 1 bees 1 food 48 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Anicia Checkerspot Euphydryas anicia on beardtongues
  • Edith's Checkerspot Euphydryas editha on beardtongues
  • California Tiger Moth Leptarctia californiae on beardtongues
  • Kallia murtfeldtella on beardtongues

Specialist bees All

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

  • Osmia pentstemonis Pollen specialist on Penstemon on beardtongues

Plant eaters All

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

  • Rufous Hummingbird Selasphorus rufus on beardtongues

Flower visitors All

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

  • Great Basin Bumble Bee Bombus centralis
  • Osmia brevis
  • Red-belted Bumble Bee Bombus rufocinctus
  • Colorado Black-notched Bumble Bee Bombus bifarius
  • Osmia integra Pollen specialist on Astragalus, Lupinus, Lotus and 1 more
  • Hunt's Bumble Bee Bombus huntii
  • Tripartite Sweat Bee Halictus tripartitus
  • Edwards's Long-horned Bee Eucera edwardsii
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