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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
  6. Verbena Family
  7. Vervains
  8. Fanleaf Vervain
  9. Supports

What Fanleaf Vervain supports

59 native animals
supported in the US
6 caterpillars 1 hosts 5 food 47 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Common Buckeye Junonia coenia on vervains
  • Spotted Phosphila Moth Phosphila miselioides on vervains
  • Theona Checkerspot Chlosyne theona on vervains
  • Verbena Moth Crambodes talidiformis on vervains
  • Lantana Stick Moth Neogalea sunia on vervains
  • Fine-lined Sallow Catabena lineolata on vervains

Hosted animals All

1 native gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it, most recorded first.

  • Calycomyza verbenae on vervains

Plant eaters All

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

  • Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus on vervains
  • Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura on vervains
  • Swamp Sparrow Melospiza georgiana on vervains
  • American Pipit Anthus rubescens on vervains
  • Common Ground Dove Columbina passerina on vervains

Flower visitors All

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

  • Angeles Striped Sweat Bee Agapostemon angelicus
  • Osmia subfasciata
  • Southern Plains Bumble Bee Bombus fraternus on vervains
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis on vervains
  • Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus on vervains
  • Monarch Danaus plexippus on vervains
  • Gulf Fritillary Dione vanillae on vervains
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui on vervains
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