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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Silkgrasses
  8. Zigzag Silkgrass
  9. Supports

What Zigzag Silkgrass supports

11 native animals
supported in the US
3 bees 8 flowers

Specialist bees All

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

  • Melissodes dentiventris Pollen specialist on Solidago, Symphyotrichum, Helianthus and 6 more on silkgrasses
  • Nevada Nomia Dieunomia nevadensis Pollen specialist on Helianthus, Heterotheca, Baccharis and 9 more on silkgrasses
  • Andrena fulvipennis Pollen specialist on Chrysopsis, Pityopsis and Heterotheca on silkgrasses

Flower visitors All

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

  • Little Yellow Eurema lisa on silkgrasses
  • Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus on silkgrasses
  • Ocola Skipper Panoquina ocola on silkgrasses
  • Poey's Furrow Bee Halictus poeyi on silkgrasses
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens on silkgrasses
  • Horace's Duskywing Erynnis horatius on silkgrasses
  • Sleepy Orange Eurema nicippe on silkgrasses
  • Barred Yellow Eurema daira on silkgrasses

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