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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Nances, Willows, and Allies
  6. Spurge and Allies
  7. Crotons
  8. Prairie Tea
  9. Supports

What Prairie Tea supports

18 native animals
supported in the US
8 caterpillars 1 bees 4 food 5 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus
  • Goatweed Leafwing Anaea andria
  • Florida Leafwing Anaea troglodyta
  • Red-banded Hairstreak Calycopis cecrops on crotons
  • Angled Leafwing Fountainea glycerium on crotons
  • Tropical Leafwing Anaea aidea on crotons
  • Citrus Gem Schinia citrinellus on crotons
  • Starred Skipper Arteurotia tractipennis on crotons

Specialist bees All

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

  • Virgin River Fairy Bee Perdita crotonis Pollen specialist on Croton on crotons

Plant eaters All

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

  • Common Ground Dove Columbina passerina
  • Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
  • White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica
  • Pelitropis rotulata on crotons

Flower visitors All

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

  • American Snout Libytheana carinenta
  • Dainty Sulphur Nathalis iole
  • Poecilanthrax lucifer
  • Chrysellus Flower Moth Schinia chrysellus
  • Hawaiian Beet Webworm Moth Spoladea recurvalis on crotons

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