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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
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  6. Borage Family
  7. Scorpionweeds
  8. Section Glandulosae
  9. Arizona Phacelia
  10. Supports

What Arizona Phacelia supports

53 native animals
supported in the US
3 bees 1 food 49 flowers

Specialist bees All

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

  • Phacelia Shortface Dufourea mulleri Pollen specialist on Phacelia and Nemophila on scorpionweeds
  • Anthidium palmarum Pollen specialist on Phacelia on scorpionweeds
  • Anthidium mormonum Pollen specialist on Phacelia on scorpionweeds

Plant eaters All

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

  • White-bowed Smoothwing Scaeva affinis on scorpionweeds

Flower visitors All

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

  • Tripartite Sweat Bee Halictus tripartitus
  • Tansy Mustard Sweat Bee Lasioglossum sisymbrii
  • Globe Mallow Bee Diadasia diminuta Pollen specialist on Sphaeralcea and Sidalcea
  • Angeles Striped Sweat Bee Agapostemon angelicus
  • Desert-dandelion Nomadopsis Calliopsis puellae Pollen specialist on Chaenactis, Malacothrix, Baileya and 1 more
  • Six-Spotted Fairy Bee Perdita sexmaculata
  • Desert Dandelion Fairy Bee Perdita malacothricis Pollen specialist on Chaenactis, Malacothrix, Stephanomeria and 3 more
  • Eucera actuosa
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