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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Fleabanes and Horseweeds
  8. Olygotrichium
  9. Lobed Fleabane

species 37 observations

Lobed Fleabane

Erigeron lobatus

Status
maybe native
Bees
1 specialist raised on its pollen
Traits
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supports All

54 native animals
supported in the US
  • Caterpillars Moths and butterflies raised on it White-lined Sphinx 1
  • Specialist bees Bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it Hostile Leaf-cutter Bee 1
  • Hosted animals Gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it Beautiful Fleabane Root-borer 1
  • Plant eaters Animals that feed on it Wild Turkey 1
  • Flower visitors Pollinators and other flower visitors Ligated Furrow Bee, Margined Calligrapher, Tripartite Sweat Bee, Oblique Streaktail 50

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Herbaceous plants
Plant type
Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

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