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

What Wavyleaf Purple Coneflower supports

116 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 4 bees 1 food 109 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Variegated Fritillary Euptoieta claudia
  • 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

Plant eaters All

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

  • Typocerus deceptus

Flower visitors All

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

  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
  • Great Spangled Fritillary Argynnis cybele
  • Golden Sweat Bee Augochlorella aurata
  • American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus
  • Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee Agapostemon virescens
  • Ligated Furrow Bee Halictus ligatus
  • Black-and-gold Bumble Bee Bombus auricomus
  • Doubled Ceratina Ceratina dupla
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