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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Coneflowers
  8. Narrow-leaved Purple Coneflower
  9. Supports

What Narrow-leaved Purple Coneflower supports

130 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 4 bees 125 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • American Sunflower Moth Homoeosoma electella on coneflowers

Specialist bees All

4 native bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it, most recorded first.

  • Parallel Leafcutter Bee Megachile parallela Pollen specialist on Symphyotrichum, Solidago, Helianthus and 26 more on coneflowers
  • Protandrena albitarsis Pollen specialist on Helianthus, Coreopsis, Rudbeckia and 3 more on coneflowers
  • Andrena helianthiformis Pollen specialist on Echinacea on coneflowers
  • Big-cheeked Angled-Mason Ashmeadiella bucconis Pollen specialist on Solidago, Erigeron, Helianthus and 23 more on coneflowers

Flower visitors All

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

  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
  • American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus
  • Black-and-gold Bumble Bee Bombus auricomus
  • Queen Danaus gilippus
  • Arogos Skipper Atrytone arogos
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
  • Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee Agapostemon virescens
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