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

What Appalachian Blazing Star supports

83 native animals
supported in the US
6 caterpillars 1 hosts 76 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
  • Third Flower Moth Schinia tertia on blazing-stars
  • Bleeding Flower Moth Schinia sanguinea 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

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

  • Monarch Danaus plexippus
  • Clouded Skipper Lerema accius
  • Long-tailed Skipper Urbanus proteus
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Gulf Fritillary Dione vanillae
  • Pipevine Swallowtail Battus philenor
  • Ocola Skipper Panoquina ocola
  • Byssus Skipper Problema byssus
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