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  3. Vascular Plants
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  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
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  7. Milkvetches
  8. Leptocarpi
  9. Nye Milkvetch
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What Nye Milkvetch supports

18 native animals
supported in the US
10 caterpillars 2 bees 6 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Clouded Sulphur Colias philodice on milkvetches
  • Marine Blue Leptotes marina on milkvetches
  • Orange Sulphur Colias eurytheme on milkvetches
  • Behr's Hairstreak Satyrium behrii on milkvetches
  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus on milkvetches
  • Ceraunus Blue Hemiargus ceraunus on milkvetches
  • Reakirt's Blue Echinargus isola on milkvetches
  • Alfalfa Looper Autographa californica on milkvetches
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Specialist bees All

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

  • Porter's Digger Bee Anthophora porterae Pollen specialist on Astragalus on milkvetches
  • Pallid Habropoda Habropoda pallida Pollen specialist on Astragalus, Psorothamnus, Parkinsonia and 1 more on milkvetches

Flower visitors All

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

  • Rocky Mountain Clearwing Hemaris thetis on milkvetches
  • Hunt's Bumble Bee Bombus huntii on milkvetches
  • Crotch's Bumble Bee Bombus crotchii on milkvetches
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui on milkvetches
  • Sara Orangetip Anthocharis sara on milkvetches
  • Prunus Miner Bee Andrena prunorum on milkvetches

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