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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Blazing-stars
  8. Branched Gayfeather
  9. Supports

What Branched Gayfeather supports

70 native animals
supported in the US
4 caterpillars 66 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Wavy-lined Emerald Synchlora aerata on blazing-stars
  • Ailanthus Webworm Moth Atteva aurea on blazing-stars
  • Three-lined Flower Moth Schinia trifascia on blazing-stars
  • Bleeding Flower Moth Schinia sanguinea on blazing-stars

Flower visitors All

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

  • Monarch Danaus plexippus
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
  • American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus
  • Spicebush Swallowtail Papilio troilus
  • Viceroy Limenitis archippus
  • Clouded Sulphur Colias philodice
  • Peck's Skipper Polites peckius
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