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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mustards, Capers, and Allies
  6. Mustard Family
  7. Peppergrasses
  8. Southern Pepperweed
  9. Supports

What Southern Pepperweed supports

14 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 1 bees 4 food 7 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Checkered White Pontia protodice on peppergrasses
  • Great Southern White Ascia monuste 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

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

  • Rock Squirrel Otospermophilus variegatus
  • Common Ground Dove Columbina passerina on peppergrasses
  • Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura on peppergrasses
  • Golden Paper Wasp Polistes aurifer on peppergrasses

Flower visitors All

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

  • Narrow-headed Marsh Fly Helophilus fasciatus on peppergrasses
  • Western Lynx Spider Oxyopes scalaris on peppergrasses
  • Ligated Furrow Bee Halictus ligatus on peppergrasses
  • Golden Sweat Bee Augochlorella aurata on peppergrasses
  • Confusing Furrow Bee Halictus confusus on peppergrasses
  • Rugose-chested Sweat Bee Lasioglossum pectorale on peppergrasses
  • Mesilla Masked Bee Hylaeus mesillae on peppergrasses

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