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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
  6. Legumes
  7. Milkvetches
  8. Tennessee Milkvetch
  9. Supports

What Tennessee Milkvetch supports

11 native animals
supported in the US
6 caterpillars 1 food 4 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Clouded Sulphur Colias philodice on milkvetches
  • Orange Sulphur Colias eurytheme on milkvetches
  • Silver-spotted Skipper Epargyreus clarus on milkvetches
  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus on milkvetches
  • Cabbage Looper Moth Trichoplusia ni on milkvetches
  • Sweet Clover Root Borer Moth Walshia miscecolorella on milkvetches

Plant eaters All

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

  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo on milkvetches

Flower visitors All

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

  • American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui on milkvetches
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis on milkvetches
  • Cresson's Mining Bee Andrena cressonii on milkvetches

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