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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Telegraph Plants
  8. Heterotheca fulcrata
  9. Alpine Golden-aster

species 781 observations

Alpine Golden-aster

Heterotheca pumila

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

Field notes

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20 native animals
supported in the US
  • Specialist bees Bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it Parallel Leafcutter Bee, Sunflower Burrowing-Resin Bee, Horn-faced Leafcutter Bee, Nevada Nomia 7
  • Plant eaters Animals that feed on it American Sand Wasp 1
  • Flower visitors Pollinators and other flower visitors Variegated Fritillary, Funereal Duskywing, Common Branded Skipper, Arctic Blue 12

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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