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

What Plains Ironweed supports

47 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 2 bees 43 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Red Groundling Moth Perigea xanthioides on ironweeds
  • Hairy Dichomeris Moth Dichomeris setosella on ironweeds

Specialist bees All

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

  • Oblique Longhorn Bee Epimelissodes obliquus Pollen specialist on Cirsium, Helianthus, Rudbeckia and 4 more on ironweeds
  • Hostile Leaf-cutter Bee Megachile inimica Pollen specialist on Solidago, Erigeron, Cirsium and 10 more on ironweeds

Flower visitors All

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

  • Variegated Fritillary Euptoieta claudia
  • American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus
  • Acmaeodera mixta
  • Gulf Fritillary Dione vanillae
  • Blue Dasher Pachydiplax longipennis
  • Pipevine Swallowtail Battus philenor
  • Orange Sulphur Colias eurytheme
  • Common Checkered-Skipper Burnsius communis
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