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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
  6. Mint Family
  7. Sages
  8. Salvia Sect. Farinaceae
  9. Mealy Blue Sage
  10. Supports

What Mealy Blue Sage supports

175 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 20 food 153 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Inornate Pyrausta Moth Pyrausta inornatalis
  • Hermit Sphinx Lintneria eremitus on sages

Plant eaters All

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

  • Toltec Potter Wasp Parazumia tolteca
  • Euodynerus pratensis
  • Spotted Cucumber Beetle Diabrotica undecimpunctata
  • Metric Paper Wasp Polistes metricus
  • Mexican Honey Wasp Brachygastra mellifica
  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus
  • Eastern Yellowjacket Vespula maculifrons
  • Great Golden Digger Wasp Sphex ichneumoneus
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Flower visitors All

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

  • American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus
  • Monarch Danaus plexippus
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa virginica
  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus
  • Huron Skipper Atalopedes huron
  • Silver-spotted Skipper Epargyreus clarus
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