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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
  6. Legumes
  7. Sweetvetches
  8. Western Sweet-vetch
  9. Supports

What Western Sweet-vetch supports

10 native animals
supported in the US
4 caterpillars 1 bees 1 food 4 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Christina Sulphur Colias christina on sweetvetches
  • Clouded Sulphur Colias philodice on sweetvetches
  • American Idia Moth Idia americalis on sweetvetches
  • Little Arches Drasteria petricola on sweetvetches

Specialist bees All

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

  • Black-and-gray Leafcutter Bee Megachile melanophaea Pollen specialist on Astragalus, Lupinus and Hedysarum on sweetvetches

Plant eaters All

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

  • Brown Bear Ursus arctos

Flower visitors All

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

  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
  • Common Ringlet Coenonympha california
  • Juniper Hairstreak Callophrys gryneus
  • Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee Bombus flavifrons on sweetvetches

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