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

What Red Sunflower supports

90 native animals
supported in the US
7 food 83 flowers

Plant eaters All

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

  • Spotted Cucumber Beetle Diabrotica undecimpunctata
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel Sciurus carolinensis
  • Differential Grasshopper Melanoplus differentialis
  • Yellow-shouldered Drone Fly Eristalis stipator
  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus
  • North American Wheel Bug Arilus cristatus
  • Metric Paper Wasp Polistes metricus

Flower visitors All

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

  • Monarch Danaus plexippus
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus
  • Huron Skipper Atalopedes huron
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
  • Gulf Fritillary Dione vanillae
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Papilio glaucus
  • Golden Northern Bumble Bee Bombus fervidus
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