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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. American Asters
  8. Late Purple Asters
  9. Thinleaf Late Purple Aster

species 117 observations

Thinleaf Late Purple Aster

Symphyotrichum phlogifolium

Status
native
Keystone
101 caterpillar species raised on Symphyotrichum herbaceous plants
Bees
13 specialists raised on its pollen
Traits
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

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288 native animals
supported in the US
  • Caterpillars Moths and butterflies raised on it Pearl Crescent, Isabella Tiger Moth, Peppered Moth, Tawny Crescent 65
  • Specialist bees Bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it Dark-veined Longhorn Bee, Drury's Long-horned Bee, Hairy-banded Mining Bee, Cloudy-winged Mining Bee 13
  • Hosted animals Gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it Ophiomyia quinta, Calycomyza promissa 2
  • Plant eaters Animals that feed on it Ruffed Grouse, Four-banded Stink Bug Wasp, Keeled Treehopper, Eastern Meadow Vole 12
  • Flower visitors Pollinators and other flower visitors Common Eastern Bumble Bee, Tricolored Bumble Bee, Monarch, Transverse-banded Flower Fly 196

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Herbaceous plants
Plant type
Perennial Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

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