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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. Caespitosi
  9. Mat Penstemon
  10. Supports

What Mat Penstemon supports

56 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 3 food 48 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Anicia Checkerspot Euphydryas anicia on beardtongues
  • Variable Checkerspot Euphydryas chalcedona on beardtongues
  • Edith's Checkerspot Euphydryas editha on beardtongues
  • California Tiger Moth Leptarctia californiae on beardtongues
  • Penstemon Borer Penstemonia edwardsii on beardtongues

Plant eaters All

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

  • White-eared Hummingbird Basilinna leucotis on beardtongues
  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo on beardtongues
  • Rufous Hummingbird Selasphorus rufus on beardtongues

Flower visitors All

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

  • Snow's Skipper Paratrytone snowi
  • Black-and-gold Bumble Bee Bombus auricomus on beardtongues
  • Two-spotted Bumble Bee Bombus bimaculatus on beardtongues
  • Orange-tipped Wood-digger Anthophora terminalis on beardtongues
  • Golden Northern Bumble Bee Bombus fervidus on beardtongues
  • Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee Bombus flavifrons on beardtongues
  • Colorado Black-notched Bumble Bee Bombus bifarius on beardtongues
  • American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus on beardtongues
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