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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mustards, Capers, and Allies
  6. Mustard Family
  7. Bitter Cress
  8. Sand Bittercress
  9. Supports

What Sand Bittercress supports

29 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 1 bees 1 food 22 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Falcate Orangetip Anthocharis midea
  • Purple-backed Cabbageworm Moth Evergestis pallidata
  • West Virginia White Pieris virginiensis on bitter cress
  • Olympia Marble Euchloe olympia on bitter cress
  • Margined White Pieris marginalis on bitter cress

Specialist bees All

1 native bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it, most recorded first.

  • Mustard Miner Bee Andrena arabis Pollen specialist on Cardamine and Arabis on bitter cress

Plant eaters All

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

  • Phyllotreta ochripes

Flower visitors All

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

  • Annulate Masked Bee Hylaeus annulatus
  • Little Masked Bee Hylaeus pictipes
  • Mustard White Pieris oleracea on bitter cress
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis on bitter cress
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens on bitter cress
  • Two-spotted Bumble Bee Bombus bimaculatus on bitter cress
  • Greater Bee Fly Bombylius major on bitter cress
  • Orange-legged Furrow Bee Halictus rubicundus on bitter cress
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