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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. American Groundsels and Ragworts
  8. Prairie Groundsel
  9. Supports

What Prairie Groundsel supports

24 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 1 bees 1 hosts 21 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Phyllocnistis insignis on american groundsels and ragworts

Specialist bees All

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

  • Andrena gardineri Pollen specialist on Packera, Senecio and Gutierrezia on american groundsels and ragworts

Hosted animals All

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

  • Phyllotrox ferrugineus on american groundsels and ragworts

Flower visitors All

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

  • American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus
  • Ligated Furrow Bee Halictus ligatus
  • Boisduval's Blue Icaricia icarioides
  • Melissa Blue Plebejus melissa
  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus on american groundsels and ragworts
  • Zabulon Skipper Lon zabulon on american groundsels and ragworts
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa virginica on american groundsels and ragworts
  • Pearl Crescent Phyciodes tharos on american groundsels and ragworts
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