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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Nances, Willows, and Allies
  6. Flax Family
  7. Flaxes
  8. Southern Flax
  9. Supports

What Southern Flax supports

9 native animals
supported in the US
3 caterpillars 2 food 4 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Variegated Fritillary Euptoieta claudia
  • Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum on flaxes
  • Bertha Armyworm Moth Mamestra configurata on flaxes

Plant eaters All

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

  • Fall Field Cricket Gryllus pennsylvanicus on flaxes
  • Sandhill Crane Antigone canadensis on flaxes

Flower visitors All

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

  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus on flaxes
  • Silvery Blue Glaucopsyche lygdamus on flaxes
  • White-bowed Smoothwing Scaeva affinis on flaxes
  • Confusing Furrow Bee Halictus confusus on flaxes

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