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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Nightshades, Bindweeds, Gooseweeds, and Allies
  6. Nightshade Family
  7. Boxthorns
  8. Shockley's Desert-thorn
  9. Supports

What Shockley's Desert-thorn supports

11 native animals
supported in the US
4 food 7 flowers

Plant eaters All

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

  • White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica on boxthorns
  • Sandhill Crane Antigone canadensis on boxthorns
  • Verdin Auriparus flaviceps on boxthorns
  • Isabelle's Bromeliad Fly Copestylum isabellina on boxthorns

Flower visitors All

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

  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii on boxthorns
  • Queen Danaus gilippus on boxthorns
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui on boxthorns
  • West Coast Lady Vanessa annabella on boxthorns
  • Checkered White Pontia protodice on boxthorns
  • Sleepy Orange Eurema nicippe on boxthorns
  • Western Pygmy-Blue Brephidium exilis on boxthorns

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