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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Borages
  6. Borage Family
  7. Scorpionweeds
  8. Cosmanthoides
  9. Smooth Phacelia
  10. Supports

What Smooth Phacelia supports

22 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 1 bees 19 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Zeller's Ethmia Moth Ethmia zelleriella on scorpionweeds
  • Ethmia macelhosiella on scorpionweeds

Specialist bees All

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

  • Andrena lamelliterga Pollen specialist on Phacelia on scorpionweeds

Flower visitors All

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

  • Horse-fly Carpenter Bee Xylocopa tabaniformis on scorpionweeds
  • Pipevine Swallowtail Battus philenor on scorpionweeds
  • Urbane Digger Bee Anthophora urbana on scorpionweeds
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui on scorpionweeds
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis on scorpionweeds
  • California Digger Bee Anthophora californica on scorpionweeds
  • Large-tailed Aphideater Eupeodes volucris on scorpionweeds
  • Tripartite Sweat Bee Halictus tripartitus on scorpionweeds
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