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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Gentians, Dogbanes, Madders, and Allies
  6. Dogbanes and Milkweeds
  7. Gomphocarpus
  8. Balloonplant
  9. Supports

What Balloonplant supports

13 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 2 food 10 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Monarch Danaus plexippus

Plant eaters All

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

  • Large Milkweed Bug Oncopeltus fasciatus
  • Anna's Hummingbird Calypte anna

Flower visitors All

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

  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
  • Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
  • Bramble Mason Wasp Ancistrocerus adiabatus
  • Trout-perch Percopsis omiscomaycus
  • Northern Paper Wasp Polistes fuscatus
  • Bald-faced Hornet Dolichovespula maculata
  • American Winter Ant Prenolepis imparis
  • Great Black Digger Wasp Sphex pensylvanicus
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