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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
  6. Legumes
  7. False Indigos
  8. Fragrant Indigobush
  9. Supports

What Fragrant Indigobush supports

13 native animals
supported in the US
7 caterpillars 3 bees 3 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Marine Blue Leptotes marina on false indigos
  • Silver-spotted Skipper Epargyreus clarus on false indigos
  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus on false indigos
  • Three-staff Underwing Catocala amestris on false indigos
  • Leadplant Flower Moth Schinia lucens on false indigos
  • Walshia amorphella on false indigos
  • Macrosaccus uhlerella on false indigos

Specialist bees All

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

  • Susanna's Cellophane Bee Colletes susannae Pollen specialist on Dalea and Amorpha on false indigos
  • Eastern Scaly Miner Bee Andrena quintilis Pollen specialist on Amorpha on false indigos
  • Andrena cragini Pollen specialist on Amorpha on false indigos

Flower visitors All

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

  • Two-spotted Bumble Bee Bombus bimaculatus on false indigos
  • Juniper Hairstreak Callophrys gryneus on false indigos
  • Dilated-horned Small-Mason Hoplitis spoliata on false indigos

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