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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. Sharpsepal Beardtongue
  10. Supports

What Sharpsepal Beardtongue supports

30 native animals
supported in the US
3 caterpillars 2 food 25 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

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

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

  • Abrupt Digger Bee Anthophora abrupta
  • Blue Dasher Pachydiplax longipennis
  • Two-spotted Bumble Bee Bombus bimaculatus
  • Black-and-gold Bumble Bee Bombus auricomus on beardtongues
  • American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus on beardtongues
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens on beardtongues
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis on beardtongues
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa virginica on beardtongues
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