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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Nightshades, Bindweeds, Gooseweeds, and Allies
  6. Nightshade Family
  7. Ground Cherries
  8. Missouri Groundcherry
  9. Supports

What Missouri Groundcherry supports

12 native animals
supported in the US
4 caterpillars 1 bees 3 food 4 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Tobacco Budworm Moth Chloridea virescens on ground cherries
  • Corn Earworm Moth Helicoverpa zea on ground cherries
  • Eggplant Leafroller Moth Lineodes integra on ground cherries
  • Sweet Potato Armyworm Moth Spodoptera dolichos on ground cherries

Specialist bees All

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

  • Broad-footed Cellophane Bee Colletes latitarsis Pollen specialist on Physalis on ground cherries

Plant eaters All

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

  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo on ground cherries
  • Colorado Potato Beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata on ground cherries
  • Clavate Tortoise Beetle Helocassis clavata on ground cherries

Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens on ground cherries
  • Honeylocust Treehopper Micrutalis calva on ground cherries
  • Ligated Furrow Bee Halictus ligatus on ground cherries
  • Two-banded Cellophane-cuckoo Bee Epeolus bifasciatus on ground cherries

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