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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mustards, Capers, and Allies
  6. Mustard Family
  7. Bitter Cress
  8. Mountain Bittercress
  9. Supports

What Mountain Bittercress supports

16 native animals
supported in the US
3 caterpillars 13 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Purple-backed Cabbageworm Moth Evergestis pallidata on bitter cress
  • Falcate Orangetip Anthocharis midea on bitter cress
  • West Virginia White Pieris virginiensis on bitter cress

Flower visitors All

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

  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis on bitter cress
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens on bitter cress
  • Two-spotted Bumble Bee Bombus bimaculatus on bitter cress
  • Greater Bee Fly Bombylius major on bitter cress
  • Orange-legged Furrow Bee Halictus rubicundus on bitter cress
  • Unequal Cellophane Bee Colletes inaequalis on bitter cress
  • Golden Sweat Bee Augochlorella aurata on bitter cress
  • Spurred Ceratina Ceratina calcarata on bitter cress
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