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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mallows, Rock Roses, and Allies
  6. Mallow Family
  7. Checkerblooms
  8. Prairie Mallow
  9. Supports

What Prairie Mallow supports

11 native animals
supported in the US
4 caterpillars 2 bees 5 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

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

  • Colorado Black-notched Bumble Bee Bombus bifarius on checkerblooms
  • White-lined Sphinx Hyles lineata on checkerblooms
  • Black-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus melanopygus on checkerblooms
  • Ornate Checkered Beetle Trichodes ornatus on checkerblooms
  • Indiscriminate Cuckoo Bumble Bee Bombus insularis on checkerblooms

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