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

What Perennial Sunflower supports

38 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 12 food 25 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum

Plant eaters All

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

  • Hyaline Grass Bug Liorhyssus hyalinus
  • Liriomyza eupatorii
  • Plum-thistle Aphid Brachycaudus cardui
  • Foxglove Aphid Aulacorthum solani
  • Leafcurl Plum Aphid Brachycaudus helichrysi
  • Dandelion Root Aphid Trama rara
  • Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
  • Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Sunflower Mining Bee Andrena helianthi Pollen specialist on Helianthus
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Tricolored Bumble Bee Bombus ternarius
  • Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
  • Huron Skipper Atalopedes huron
  • Spotted Cucumber Beetle Diabrotica undecimpunctata
  • Ligated Furrow Bee Halictus ligatus
  • Goldenrod Soldier Beetle Chauliognathus pensylvanicus
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