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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mustards, Capers, and Allies
  6. Mustard Family
  7. Peppergrasses
  8. Mesa Pepperwort
  9. Supports

What Mesa Pepperwort supports

18 native animals
supported in the US
3 caterpillars 1 bees 5 food 9 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Checkered White Pontia protodice on peppergrasses
  • Becker's White Pontia beckerii on peppergrasses
  • Large Marble Euchloe ausonides on peppergrasses

Specialist bees All

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

  • Black-and-red Miner Andrena prima Pollen specialist on Physaria and Lepidium on peppergrasses

Plant eaters All

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

  • Dipalta serpentina
  • Rhopalophora meeskei
  • Common Ground Dove Columbina passerina on peppergrasses
  • Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura on peppergrasses
  • Golden Paper Wasp Polistes aurifer on peppergrasses

Flower visitors All

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

  • Tailed Copper Tharsalea arota
  • Anise Swallowtail Papilio zelicaon on peppergrasses
  • Narrow-headed Marsh Fly Helophilus fasciatus on peppergrasses
  • Western Lynx Spider Oxyopes scalaris on peppergrasses
  • Western Wasp Fly Ceriana tridens on peppergrasses
  • Ligated Furrow Bee Halictus ligatus on peppergrasses
  • Golden Sweat Bee Augochlorella aurata on peppergrasses
  • Confusing Furrow Bee Halictus confusus on peppergrasses
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