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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. Grass-leaved Prairie Aster
  9. Supports

What Grass-leaved Prairie Aster supports

20 native animals
supported in the US
3 bees 1 hosts 16 flowers

Specialist bees All

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

  • Drury's Long-horned Bee Melissodes druriellus Pollen specialist on Solidago, Symphyotrichum, Helianthus and 5 more on wood asters
  • Aster Mining Bee Andrena asteris Pollen specialist on Solidago, Symphyotrichum and Eurybia on wood asters
  • Two-celled Sweat Bee Lasioglossum lustrans Pollen specialist on Eurybia and Pyrrhopappus on wood asters

Hosted animals All

1 native gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it, most recorded first.

  • Liriomyza limopsis on wood asters

Flower visitors All

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

  • Ligated Furrow Bee Halictus ligatus
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens on wood asters
  • Black-shouldered Drone Fly Eristalis dimidiata on wood asters
  • Northern Paper Wasp Polistes fuscatus on wood asters
  • Pure Green Sweat Bee Augochlora pura on wood asters
  • Perplexing Bumble Bee Bombus perplexus on wood asters
  • Common Eastern Physocephala Physocephala tibialis on wood asters
  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus on wood asters
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