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

What Shining False Indigo supports

7 native animals
supported in the US
4 caterpillars 1 bees 2 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Southern Dogface Zerene cesonia 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

Specialist bees All

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

  • Michener's Small-Mason Hoplitis micheneri Pollen specialist on Amorpha on false indigos

Flower visitors All

2 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

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