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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. Coerulei
  9. Sidebells Penstemon
  10. Supports

What Sidebells Penstemon supports

70 native animals
supported in the US
4 caterpillars 3 food 63 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Dotted Checkerspot Poladryas minuta
  • Anicia Checkerspot Euphydryas anicia
  • Edith's Checkerspot Euphydryas editha on beardtongues
  • California Tiger Moth Leptarctia californiae on beardtongues

Plant eaters All

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

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

Flower visitors All

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

  • Golden Northern Bumble Bee Bombus fervidus
  • Great Basin Bumble Bee Bombus centralis
  • Anthophora ursina
  • American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus
  • Black-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus melanopygus
  • Broad-tailed Hummingbird Selasphorus platycercus
  • Atlantis Fritillary Argynnis atlantis
  • Black-margined Flower Fly Syrphus opinator
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