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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Elephant's Feet
  8. Common Elephant's-foot
  9. Supports

What Common Elephant's-foot supports

26 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 24 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Cremastobombycia ignota on elephant's feet
  • Perilla Leaf Moth Pyrausta phoenicealis on elephant's feet

Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa virginica
  • Two-spotted Longhorn Bee Melissodes bimaculatus
  • Monarch Danaus plexippus
  • Silver-spotted Skipper Epargyreus clarus
  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus
  • Snowberry Clearwing Hemaris diffinis
  • Clouded Skipper Lerema accius
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