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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Wood Asters
  8. Forked Aster

species 337 observations

Forked Aster

Eurybia furcata

Status
native
Bees
6 specialists raised on its pollen
Traits
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

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24 native animals
supported in the US
  • Specialist bees Bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it Drury's Long-horned Bee, Aster Mining Bee, Eastern Bare-Miner, Composite Bare-Miner 6
  • Hosted animals Gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it Liriomyza limopsis 1
  • Flower visitors Pollinators and other flower visitors Common Eastern Bumble Bee, Rusty-patched Bumble Bee, Black-shouldered Drone Fly, Northern Paper Wasp 17

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
Perennial Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

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