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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. Smallhead Blazing Star
  9. Supports

What Smallhead Blazing Star supports

76 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 1 hosts 70 flowers

Caterpillars All

5 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
  • Master's Dart Feltia herilis on blazing-stars
  • Three-lined Flower Moth Schinia trifascia on blazing-stars
  • Bleeding Flower Moth Schinia sanguinea on blazing-stars

Hosted animals All

1 native gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it, most recorded first.

  • Asphondylia lacinariae on blazing-stars

Flower visitors All

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

  • Monarch Danaus plexippus
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui
  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus
  • Huron Skipper Atalopedes huron
  • Cloudless Sulphur Phoebis sennae
  • Zabulon Skipper Lon zabulon
  • Peck's Skipper Polites peckius
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