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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Mexican Sunflowers
  8. Mexican Sunflower
  9. Supports

What Mexican Sunflower supports

29 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 2 food 26 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Bordered Patch Chlosyne lacinia

Plant eaters All

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

  • Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
  • Transverse-banded Flower Fly Eristalis transversa

Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Yellow-tipped Flasher Telegonus anausis
  • Monarch Danaus plexippus
  • American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus
  • Caribbean Scoliid Wasp Dielis dorsata
  • Falcate Skipper Spathilepia clonius
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui
  • Zebra Longwing Heliconius charithonia
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