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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. Hairy Beardtongue
  10. Supports

What Hairy Beardtongue supports

75 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 1 bees 2 food 67 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Baltimore Checkerspot Euphydryas phaeton
  • Verbena Bud Moth Endothenia hebesana on beardtongues
  • Chalcedony Midget Elaphria chalcedonia on beardtongues
  • Sri Lanka Plume Moth Stenoptilodes taprobanes 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

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

  • Golden Northern Bumble Bee Bombus fervidus
  • Two-spotted Bumble Bee Bombus bimaculatus
  • Orange-tipped Wood-digger Anthophora terminalis
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Bufflehead Mason Bee Osmia bucephala
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa virginica
  • Hairy-fronted Small-Mason Hoplitis pilosifrons
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