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  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
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  7. Milkvetches
  8. Reventi-arrecti
  9. Spring Mountain Milkvetch
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What Spring Mountain Milkvetch supports

20 native animals
supported in the US
11 caterpillars 2 bees 7 flowers

Caterpillars All

11 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

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

  • Golden Northern Bumble Bee Bombus fervidus on milkvetches
  • Nevada Bumble Bee Bombus nevadensis on milkvetches
  • Rocky Mountain Clearwing Hemaris thetis on milkvetches
  • Hunt's Bumble Bee Bombus huntii on milkvetches
  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii on milkvetches
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui on milkvetches
  • Prunus Miner Bee Andrena prunorum on milkvetches

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