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. Heathers, Balsams, Primroses, and Allies
  6. Primrose Family
  7. Loosestrifes
  8. Seleucia
  9. Narrow-leaved Loosestrife
  10. Supports

What Narrow-leaved Loosestrife supports

20 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 3 bees 1 food 14 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Loosestrife Borer Moth Papaipema lysimachiae on loosestrifes
  • Sparkling Aterpia Moth Aterpia approximana on loosestrifes

Specialist bees All

3 native bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it, most recorded first.

  • Dark-footed Yellow Loosestrife Bee Macropis nuda Pollen specialist on Lysimachia on loosestrifes
  • Macropis patellata Pollen specialist on Lysimachia on loosestrifes
  • Macropis steironematis Pollen specialist on Lysimachia on loosestrifes

Plant eaters All

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

  • Venus Cryptocephalus Cryptocephalus venustus

Flower visitors All

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

  • Sleepy Duskywing Erynnis brizo
  • Black-and-yellow Nomad Bee Nomada luteoloides
  • Little Ebony Bug Corimelaena pulicaria
  • Small-lined Acrobat Ant Crematogaster lineolata
  • Myrmosa unicolor
  • Oxybelus emarginatus
  • Paradidyma singularis
  • Experienced Sweat Bee Lasioglossum versatum
See all

We can't find the internet

Attempting to reconnect

Something went wrong!

Attempting to reconnect