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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
  6. Legumes
  7. Wild Indigos
  8. Gopherweed
  9. Supports

What Gopherweed supports

16 native animals
supported in the US
8 caterpillars 8 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Wild Indigo Duskywing Erynnis baptisiae on wild indigos
  • Orange Sulphur Colias eurytheme on wild indigos
  • Genista Broom Moth Uresiphita reversalis on wild indigos
  • Io Moth Automeris io on wild indigos
  • Black-spotted Prominent Dasylophia anguina on wild indigos
  • Frosted Elfin Callophrys irus on wild indigos
  • Three-lined Grapholita Moth Grapholita tristrigana on wild indigos
  • Consort Underwing Catocala consors on wild indigos

Flower visitors All

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

  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
  • Blueberry Digger Bee Habropoda laboriosa Pollen specialist on Vaccinium, Lupinus and Cercis
  • American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus on wild indigos
  • Two-spotted Bumble Bee Bombus bimaculatus on wild indigos
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens on wild indigos
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa virginica on wild indigos
  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus on wild indigos
  • Oblique Streaktail Allograpta obliqua on wild indigos

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