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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Pinks, Cactuses, and Allies
  6. Purslane Family
  7. Purslanes
  8. Shaggy Portulaca
  9. Supports

What Shaggy Portulaca supports

12 native animals
supported in the US
6 caterpillars 2 food 4 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • White-lined Sphinx Hyles lineata on purslanes
  • Variegated Fritillary Euptoieta claudia on purslanes
  • Danaid Eggfly Hypolimnas misippus on purslanes
  • Mexican Tiger Moth Apantesis proxima on purslanes
  • Achyra bifidalis on purslanes
  • Frosted Evergestis Evergestis funalis on purslanes

Plant eaters All

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

  • Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis on purslanes
  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo on purslanes

Flower visitors All

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

  • Two-spotted Longhorn Bee Melissodes bimaculatus on purslanes
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens on purslanes
  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus on purslanes
  • Southern Plains Bumble Bee Bombus fraternus on purslanes

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