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

What Alkaline Pepperwort supports

15 native animals
supported in the US
3 caterpillars 2 food 10 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

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura on peppergrasses
  • Golden Paper Wasp Polistes aurifer on peppergrasses

Flower visitors All

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

  • Texas Leafcutter Bee Megachile texana
  • Mesilla Masked Bee Hylaeus mesillae
  • Slevin's Cellophane Bee Colletes slevini
  • Megachile lippiae
  • Melissodes utahensis Pollen specialist on Solidago, Symphyotrichum, Machaeranthera and 1 more
  • Anise Swallowtail Papilio zelicaon on peppergrasses
  • Narrow-headed Marsh Fly Helophilus fasciatus on peppergrasses
  • Western Lynx Spider Oxyopes scalaris on peppergrasses
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