What Purple Wood Aster supports

32 native animals
supported in the US

7 bees 1 hosts 24 flowers

Specialist bees All

7 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
Eastern Bare-Miner Protandrena andrenoides Pollen specialist on Solidago, Symphyotrichum, Rudbeckia and 1 more on wood asters
Two-celled Sweat Bee Lasioglossum lustrans Pollen specialist on Eurybia and Pyrrhopappus on wood asters
Composite Bare-Miner Protandrena compositarum Pollen specialist on Solidago, Symphyotrichum, Bidens and 2 more on wood asters
Canadian Mining Bee Andrena canadensis Pollen specialist on Solidago, Symphyotrichum, Eurybia and 2 more on wood asters
Simple Miner Bee Andrena simplex Pollen specialist on Symphyotrichum, Solidago and Eurybia 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

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