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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. Finetooth Beardtongue
  10. Supports

What Finetooth Beardtongue supports

43 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 1 bees 1 food 36 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Variable Checkerspot Euphydryas chalcedona
  • Anicia Checkerspot Euphydryas anicia 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

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

  • Rufous Hummingbird Selasphorus rufus on beardtongues

Flower visitors All

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

  • Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee Bombus flavifrons
  • Orange-tipped Wood-digger Anthophora terminalis on beardtongues
  • Golden Northern Bumble Bee Bombus fervidus on beardtongues
  • Pseudomasaris vespoides on beardtongues
  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii on beardtongues
  • Great Basin Bumble Bee Bombus centralis on beardtongues
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis on beardtongues
  • Half-black Bumble Bee Bombus vagans on beardtongues
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