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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
  6. Legumes
  7. Wild Indigos
  8. White Wild Indigo Complex
  9. Prairie False Indigo
  10. Supports

What Prairie False Indigo supports

45 native animals
supported in the US
13 caterpillars 32 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Wild Indigo Duskywing Erynnis baptisiae
  • Orange Sulphur Colias eurytheme on wild indigos
  • Clouded Sulphur Colias philodice on wild indigos
  • Genista Broom Moth Uresiphita reversalis on wild indigos
  • Mottled Duskywing Erynnis martialis 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
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Black-and-gold Bumble Bee Bombus auricomus
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
  • Golden Northern Bumble Bee Bombus fervidus
  • American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus
  • Two-spotted Bumble Bee Bombus bimaculatus
  • Half-black Bumble Bee Bombus vagans
  • Silver-spotted Skipper Epargyreus clarus
  • Abrupt Digger Bee Anthophora abrupta
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