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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
  6. Plantain Family
  7. Beardtongues
  8. Beard-tongue
  9. Beardlip Penstemon
  10. Supports

What Beardlip Penstemon supports

65 native animals
supported in the US
9 caterpillars 3 food 53 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Meris alticola
  • Dotted Checkerspot Poladryas minuta
  • Variable Checkerspot Euphydryas chalcedona
  • Neoterpes graefiaria
  • Anicia Checkerspot Euphydryas anicia on beardtongues
  • Edith's Checkerspot Euphydryas editha on beardtongues
  • Chalcedony Midget Elaphria chalcedonia on beardtongues
  • California Tiger Moth Leptarctia californiae on beardtongues
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Anna's Hummingbird Calypte anna
  • White-eared Hummingbird Basilinna leucotis on beardtongues
  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo on beardtongues

Flower visitors All

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

  • Nevada Bumble Bee Bombus nevadensis
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
  • Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
  • Two-spotted Bumble Bee Bombus bimaculatus
  • Black-chinned Hummingbird Archilochus alexandri
  • Broad-billed Hummingbird Cynanthus latirostris
  • Rufous Hummingbird Selasphorus rufus
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