Top native tarweeds and allies
179 species, native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.
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Hayfield Tarweed
Hemizonia congesta
caterpillars
3
bees
5
food
15
flowers
29
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Tidy Tips
Layia platyglossa
caterpillars
2
bees
2
food
13
flowers
35
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Common Madia
Madia elegans
caterpillars
2
bees
1
food
12
flowers
47
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Coast Tarweed
Madia sativa
caterpillars
2
bees
1
food
12
flowers
8
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Grassy Tarweed
Madia gracilis
caterpillars
2
bees
1
food
2
flowers
6
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Mountain Tarweed
Madia glomerata
caterpillars
2
bees
1
food
1
flowers
5
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Small Tarweed
Madia exigua
caterpillars
2
bees
1
food
1
flowers
5
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Lemon-Scented Tarweed
Madia citriodora
caterpillars
2
bees
1
food
1
flowers
5
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Madia citrigracilis
caterpillars
2
bees
1
food
1
flowers
5
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Plump Seeded Madia
Madia anomala
caterpillars
2
bees
1
food
1
flowers
5
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Slender Tarweed
Madia subspicata
caterpillars
2
bees
1
flowers
6
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Naʻenaʻe-pua-melemele
Dubautia laxa
caterpillars
2
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California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
caterpillars
1
bees
2
food
7
flowers
17
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Clustered Tarweed
Deinandra fasciculata
caterpillars
1
bees
2
food
5
flowers
63
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Common Hareleaf
Lagophylla ramosissima
caterpillars
1
food
1
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Showy Golden Madia
Madia radiata
caterpillars
1
flowers
1
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Kūpaoa
Dubautia menziesii
caterpillars
1
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Rough Dubautia
Dubautia scabra
caterpillars
1
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Dubautia ciliolata
caterpillars
1
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Lagophylla glandulosa
caterpillars
1
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Plantainleaf Dubautia
Dubautia plantaginea
caterpillars
1
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Common Woolly Sunflower
Eriophyllum lanatum
bees
2
hosts
1
food
10
flowers
125
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Whitedaisy Tidytips
Layia glandulosa
bees
3
flowers
27
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Common Spikeweed
Centromadia pungens
bees
2
food
4
flowers
20
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Smooth Goldfields
Lasthenia glaberrima
bees
2
food
3
flowers
8
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Fitch's Tarweed
Centromadia fitchii
bees
2
food
2
flowers
9
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Pit-gland Tarweed
Holocarpha virgata
bees
2
food
1
flowers
9
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Pappose Tarweed
Centromadia parryi
bees
2
flowers
12
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Heermann's Tarweed
Holocarpha heermannii
bees
2
flowers
10
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Woodland Tidytips
Layia gaillardioides
bees
2
flowers
10
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Frémont's Tidytips
Layia fremontii
bees
2
flowers
9
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Tall Tidytips
Layia hieracioides
bees
2
flowers
9
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Smooth Tidytips
Layia chrysanthemoides
bees
2
flowers
9
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Sierra Tidytips
Layia pentachaeta
bees
2
flowers
9
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Grassland Tarweed
Deinandra increscens
bees
2
flowers
7
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San Diego Tarweed
Deinandra paniculata
bees
2
flowers
4
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Island Tarplant
Deinandra clementina
bees
2
flowers
4
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Santa Susana Tarplant
Deinandra minthornii
bees
2
flowers
4
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Kellogg's Tarweed
Deinandra kelloggii
bees
2
flowers
3
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Otay Tarplant
Deinandra conjugens
bees
2
flowers
3
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Mojave Tarplant
Deinandra mohavensis
bees
2
flowers
3
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Tecate Tarplant
Deinandra floribunda
bees
2
flowers
3
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Coastal Tarweed
Deinandra corymbosa
bees
2
flowers
2
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Three-ray Tarweed
Deinandra lobbii
bees
2
flowers
2
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Salinas River Tarweed
Deinandra pentactis
bees
2
flowers
2
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Kern Tarweed
Deinandra pallida
bees
2
flowers
2
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Little Hulsea
Hulsea nana
bees
2
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Seaside Woolly Sunflower
Eriophyllum staechadifolium
bees
1
food
17
flowers
37
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Golden Yarrow
Eriophyllum confertiflorum
bees
1
food
16
flowers
130
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Wallace's Woollydaisy
Eriophyllum wallacei
bees
1
food
12
flowers
30