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

What Dotted Gayfeather supports

137 native animals
supported in the US
8 caterpillars 1 hosts 1 food 127 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Blazing Star Clearwing Carmenta anthracipennis
  • 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
  • Blazing Star Borer Moth Papaipema beeriana 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

Plant eaters All

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

  • Brown Bear Ursus arctos

Flower visitors All

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

  • American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
  • Great Basin Bumble Bee Bombus centralis
  • Leonard's Skipper Hesperia leonardus
  • Golden Northern Bumble Bee Bombus fervidus
  • American Branded Skipper Hesperia colorado
  • Southern Plains Bumble Bee Bombus fraternus
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