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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Telegraph Plants
  8. Heterotheca fulcrata
  9. Cliff False Goldenaster

species 110 observations

Cliff False Goldenaster

Heterotheca viscida

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

Field notes

Supports All

18 native animals
supported in the US
  • Caterpillars Moths and butterflies raised on it Bordered Patch 1
  • 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 10
  • Plant eaters Animals that feed on it American Sand Wasp 1
  • Flower visitors Pollinators and other flower visitors Ligated Furrow Bee, Tule Bluet, Sinuous Bee Fly, Variegated Fritillary 6

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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