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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
  6. Plantain Family
  7. Beardtongues
  8. Erianthera
  9. Bush Penstemon
  10. Supports

What Bush Penstemon supports

58 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 1 bees 2 food 50 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Kallia murtfeldtella
  • Anicia Checkerspot Euphydryas anicia on beardtongues
  • Variable Checkerspot Euphydryas chalcedona on beardtongues
  • Edith's Checkerspot Euphydryas editha on beardtongues
  • California Tiger Moth Leptarctia californiae on beardtongues

Specialist bees All

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

  • Osmia pentstemonis Pollen specialist on Penstemon on beardtongues

Plant eaters All

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

  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo on beardtongues
  • Rufous Hummingbird Selasphorus rufus on beardtongues

Flower visitors All

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

  • Van Dyke's Bumble Bee Bombus vandykei
  • Fuzzy-Horned Bumble Bee Bombus mixtus
  • Vancouver Bumble Bee Bombus vancouverensis
  • Nevada Bumble Bee Bombus nevadensis
  • Great Basin Bumble Bee Bombus centralis
  • Colorado Black-notched Bumble Bee Bombus bifarius
  • Hunt's Bumble Bee Bombus huntii
  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii
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