Bloom Native gardener's
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  2. Animals
  3. Chordates
  4. Birds
  5. Woodpeckers and Allies
  6. Woodpeckers
  7. Leuconotopicus
  8. Hairy Woodpecker
  9. Supported by

What supports Hairy Woodpecker

17 native plants
support it in the US
10 food 7 flowers

Food plants All

10 native plants it feeds on, most recorded first.

  • Red-berried Elder Sambucus racemosa
  • Western Ponderosa Pine Pinus ponderosa
  • Eastern Poison Ivy Toxicodendron radicans
  • Flowering Dogwood Cornus florida
  • Northern Spicebush Lindera benzoin
  • Roundleaf Greenbrier Smilax rotundifolia
  • Common Serviceberry Amelanchier arborea
  • Black Spruce Picea mariana
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Nectar plants All

7 native plants whose flowers it visits, most recorded first.

  • American Elm Ulmus americana
  • Northern Red Oak Quercus rubra keystone
  • Red Osier Dogwood Cornus sericea
  • Northern Whitecedar Thuja occidentalis
  • Silver Maple Acer saccharinum
  • River Birch Betula nigra keystone
  • Pin Oak Quercus palustris keystone

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