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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mallows, Rock Roses, and Allies
  6. Mallow Family
  7. Checkerblooms
  8. Meadow Checker-mallow
  9. Supports

What Meadow Checker-mallow supports

19 native animals
supported in the US
4 caterpillars 2 bees 13 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • West Coast Lady Vanessa annabella on checkerblooms
  • Two-banded Checkered-Skipper Pyrgus ruralis on checkerblooms
  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus on checkerblooms
  • Common Checkered-Skipper Burnsius communis on checkerblooms

Specialist bees All

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

  • Globe Mallow Bee Diadasia diminuta Pollen specialist on Sphaeralcea and Sidalcea on checkerblooms
  • Black-fronted Turret Bee Diadasia nigrifrons Pollen specialist on Sidalcea on checkerblooms

Flower visitors All

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

  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii
  • Hunt's Bumble Bee Bombus huntii
  • Texas Striped Sweat Bee Agapostemon texanus
  • Black-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus melanopygus
  • Golden Northern Bumble Bee Bombus fervidus
  • Tripartite Sweat Bee Halictus tripartitus
  • Tansy Mustard Sweat Bee Lasioglossum sisymbrii
  • Prickly Ceratina Ceratina acantha
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