Bloom Native gardener's
field companion

Explore

Field report Layers Search
Log in Sign up
  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Myrtles, Evening Primroses, and Allies
  6. Evening Primrose Family
  7. Primrose-willows
  8. Macrocarpon
  9. Mexican Primrose-willow
  10. Supports

What Mexican Primrose-willow supports

36 native animals
supported in the US
4 caterpillars 9 food 23 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Vine Sphinx Eumorpha vitis
  • Pearly Wood-nymph Eudryas unio
  • Gaudy Sphinx Eumorpha labruscae on primrose-willows
  • Black Langessa Moth Langessa nomophilalis on primrose-willows

Plant eaters All

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

  • Eastern Lubber Grasshopper Romalea microptera
  • Olive-green Swamp Grasshopper Paroxya clavuliger
  • Cattail Toothpick Grasshopper Leptysma marginicollis
  • Atlantic Grasshopper Paroxya atlantica
  • Glassy-winged Toothpick Grasshopper Stenacris vitreipennis
  • Pale-legged Flea Beetle Lysathia ludoviciana
  • Little Wingless Grasshopper Gymnoscirtetes pusillus
  • Altica litigata
See all

Flower visitors All

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

  • Southern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa micans
  • Margined Leatherwing Beetle Chauliognathus marginatus
  • Two-spotted Longhorn Bee Melissodes bimaculatus
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Gulf Fritillary Dione vanillae
  • American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus
  • Spotless Lady Beetle Cycloneda sanguinea
  • Ceraunus Blue Hemiargus ceraunus
See all

We can't find the internet

Attempting to reconnect

Something went wrong!

Attempting to reconnect