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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Wood Asters
  8. Showy Aster
  9. Supports

What Showy Aster supports

16 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 15 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Western Plume Moth Oidaematophorus occidentalis

Flower visitors All

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

  • Indiscriminate Cuckoo Bumble Bee Bombus insularis
  • Colorado Black-notched Bumble Bee Bombus bifarius
  • Red-belted Bumble Bee Bombus rufocinctus
  • Golden-tailed Leafcutter Bee Megachile relativa
  • Pugnacious Leafcutter Bee Megachile pugnata Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Cirsium, Helianthus and 3 more
  • Clodius Parnassian Parnassius clodius
  • Yellowish Cuckoo Bumble Bee Bombus flavidus
  • Colorado Mason Osmia coloradensis Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Cirsium, Senecio and 3 more
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