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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Telegraph Plants
  8. Heterotheca villosa
  9. Harsh False Goldenaster

species 3,009 observations

Harsh False Goldenaster

Heterotheca hirsutissima

Status
native
Bees
15 specialists raised on its pollen
Traits
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

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25 native animals
supported in the US
  • Caterpillars Moths and butterflies raised on it Bordered Patch 1
  • Specialist bees Bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it Parallel Leafcutter Bee, Sunflower Burrowing-Resin Bee, Horn-faced Leafcutter Bee, Nevada Nomia 15
  • Plant eaters Animals that feed on it American Sand Wasp 1
  • Flower visitors Pollinators and other flower visitors Small Wood-Nymph, Ligated Furrow Bee, Woodland Skipper, Tule Bluet 8

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Herbaceous plants
Plant type
Perennial Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

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