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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Rosinweeds
  8. Silphium reniforme

species 112 observations

Silphium reniforme

Silphium reniforme

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

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29 native animals
supported in the US
  • Specialist bees Bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it Sunflower Burrowing-Resin Bee, Giant Sweat Bee, Hostile Leaf-cutter Bee, Yellow-faced Miner Bee 5
  • Plant eaters Animals that feed on it Keeled Treehopper, American Goldfinch, Margined Blister Beetle 3
  • Flower visitors Pollinators and other flower visitors Common Eastern Bumble Bee, Brown-belted Bumble Bee, American Bumble Bee, Two-spotted Bumble Bee 21

Range

United States

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

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