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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
  6. Acanthus Family
  7. Wild Petunias
  8. Boreosilva
  9. Smooth Ruellia
  10. Supports

What Smooth Ruellia supports

16 native animals
supported in the US
4 caterpillars 1 food 11 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Malachite Siproeta stelenes on wild petunias
  • Common Buckeye Junonia coenia on wild petunias
  • White Peacock Anartia jatrophae on wild petunias
  • Texan Crescent Anthanassa texana on wild petunias

Plant eaters All

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

  • Spotted Cucumber Beetle Diabrotica undecimpunctata

Flower visitors All

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

  • Northern Paper Wasp Polistes fuscatus
  • Cloudless Sulphur Phoebis sennae
  • Wavy-lined Emerald Synchlora aerata
  • Tropical Plushback Palpada furcata
  • Downy Long-horned Beetle Anoplodera pubera
  • False Sunflower Cuckoo Nomad Bee Holcopasites heliopsis
  • Cresson's Nomad Bee Nomada cressonii
  • Illinois Cuckoo Sweat Bee Sphecodes illinoensis
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