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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. Cristati
  9. Heller's Beardtongue
  10. Supports

What Heller's Beardtongue supports

23 native animals
supported in the US
4 caterpillars 1 food 18 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

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

Plant eaters All

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

  • Rufous Hummingbird Selasphorus rufus on beardtongues

Flower visitors All

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

  • Horse-fly Carpenter Bee Xylocopa tabaniformis
  • 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
  • Abrupt Digger Bee Anthophora abrupta on beardtongues
  • White-lined Sphinx Hyles lineata on beardtongues
  • Valley Carpenter Bee Xylocopa sonorina on beardtongues
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