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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. Eastern Smooth Beardtongue
  10. Supports

What Eastern Smooth Beardtongue supports

63 native animals
supported in the US
4 caterpillars 1 bees 2 food 56 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Verbena Bud Moth Endothenia hebesana on beardtongues
  • Baltimore Checkerspot Euphydryas phaeton on beardtongues
  • Chalcedony Midget Elaphria chalcedonia on beardtongues
  • Kallia murtfeldtella on beardtongues

Specialist bees All

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

  • Beardtongue Scraper Bee Osmia distincta Pollen specialist on Penstemon on beardtongues

Plant eaters All

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

  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo on beardtongues
  • Rufous Hummingbird Selasphorus rufus on beardtongues

Flower visitors All

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

  • Two-spotted Bumble Bee Bombus bimaculatus
  • American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus
  • Black-and-gold Bumble Bee Bombus auricomus
  • Dwarf Mason Bee Osmia pumila
  • Hairy-fronted Small-Mason Hoplitis pilosifrons
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
  • Pipevine Swallowtail Battus philenor
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