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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. Saccanthera
  9. Richardson's Beardtongue
  10. Supports

What Richardson's Beardtongue supports

50 native animals
supported in the US
6 caterpillars 1 bees 2 food 41 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Penstemonia clarkei
  • 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
  • Kallia murtfeldtella on beardtongues

Specialist bees All

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

  • Osmia pentstemonis 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

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

  • Hunt's Bumble Bee Bombus huntii
  • Pseudomasaris vespoides
  • Great Basin Bumble Bee Bombus centralis
  • Urbane Digger Bee Anthophora urbana
  • Bumblebee-like Digger Bee Anthophora bomboides
  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii
  • Red-belted Bumble Bee Bombus rufocinctus
  • Golden Northern Bumble Bee Bombus fervidus
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