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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Gentians, Dogbanes, Madders, and Allies
  6. Coffees, Bedstraws, and Allies
  7. Bedstraws
  8. Platygalium
  9. Southwestern Bedstraw
  10. Supports

What Southwestern Bedstraw supports

18 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 1 hosts 5 food 7 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Gem Moth Orthonama obstipata on bedstraws
  • Common Tan Wave Pleuroprucha insulsaria on bedstraws
  • White-lined Sphinx Hyles lineata on bedstraws
  • Bent-lined Carpet Costaconvexa centrostrigaria on bedstraws
  • Drab Brown Wave Lobocleta ossularia on bedstraws

Hosted animals All

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

  • Liriomyza galiivora on bedstraws

Plant eaters All

5 native animals that feed on it, most recorded first.

  • Common Ground Dove Columbina passerina
  • Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo on bedstraws
  • American Coot Fulica americana on bedstraws
  • Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae on bedstraws

Flower visitors All

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

  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus on bedstraws
  • Eastern Calligrapher Toxomerus geminatus on bedstraws
  • Common Wood-Nymph Cercyonis pegala on bedstraws
  • Little Wood Satyr Megisto cymela on bedstraws
  • Baltimore Checkerspot Euphydryas phaeton on bedstraws
  • Wormwood Pug Eupithecia absinthiata on bedstraws
  • Common Thick-leg Fly Tropidia quadrata on bedstraws

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