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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. Penstemon
  9. Lilac Penstemon
  10. Supports

What Lilac Penstemon supports

78 native animals
supported in the US
7 caterpillars 1 bees 2 food 68 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Anicia Checkerspot Euphydryas anicia on beardtongues
  • Verbena Bud Moth Endothenia hebesana on beardtongues
  • Dotted Checkerspot Poladryas minuta on beardtongues
  • Edith's Checkerspot Euphydryas editha on beardtongues
  • Baltimore Checkerspot Euphydryas phaeton on beardtongues
  • California Tiger Moth Leptarctia californiae on beardtongues
  • Kallia murtfeldtella on beardtongues

Specialist bees All

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

  • Beardtongue Scraper Bee Osmia distincta Pollen specialist on Penstemon on beardtongues

Plant eaters All

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

  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo on beardtongues
  • Rufous Hummingbird Selasphorus rufus on beardtongues

Flower visitors All

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

  • Great Basin Bumble Bee Bombus centralis
  • Black-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus melanopygus
  • Red-belted Bumble Bee Bombus rufocinctus
  • Hunt's Bumble Bee Bombus huntii
  • Broad-tailed Hummingbird Selasphorus platycercus
  • Black-margined Flower Fly Syrphus opinator
  • Orange-tipped Wood-digger Anthophora terminalis
  • White-shouldered Bumble Bee Bombus appositus
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