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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Nances, Willows, and Allies
  6. Violets and Allies
  7. Violets
  8. Nudicaules
  9. Southern Wedge-leaf Violet
  10. Supports

What Southern Wedge-leaf Violet supports

40 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 1 bees 2 hosts 2 food 33 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Beggar Moth Eubaphe mendica on violets
  • Waterlily Leafcutter Moth Elophila obliteralis on violets

Specialist bees All

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

  • Violet Miner Andrena violae Pollen specialist on Viola on violets

Hosted animals All

2 native gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it, most recorded first.

  • Liriomyza violivora on violets
  • Violet Leafmining Sawfly Nefusa ambigua on violets

Plant eaters All

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

  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo on violets
  • Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus on violets

Flower visitors All

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

  • Two-spotted Bumble Bee Bombus bimaculatus on violets
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens on violets
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis on violets
  • Greater Bee Fly Bombylius major on violets
  • Bufflehead Mason Bee Osmia bucephala on violets
  • Confusing Furrow Bee Halictus confusus on violets
  • Falcate Orangetip Anthocharis midea on violets
  • Carlin's Mining Bee Andrena carlini on violets
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