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What supports Black-margined Flower Fly

284 native plants
support it in the US
115 food 169 flowers

Food plants All

115 native plants it feeds on, most recorded first.

  • Common Manzanita Arctostaphylos manzanita
  • Common Yarrow Achillea millefolium
  • Common Madia Madia elegans
  • Blue Elder Sambucus cerulea
  • Menzies' Baby Blue Eyes Nemophila menziesii
  • Narrowleaf Goldenbush Ericameria linearifolia
  • Coast Live Oak Quercus agrifolia keystone
  • Pacific Poison Oak Toxicodendron diversilobum
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Nectar plants All

169 native plants whose flowers it visits, most recorded first.

  • California Poppy Eschscholzia californica
  • Coyote Brush Baccharis pilularis
  • Common Cowparsnip Heracleum maximum
  • Shrubby Cinquefoil Dasiphora fruticosa
  • Northern Highbush Blueberry Vaccinium corymbosum keystone
  • Common Beargrass Xerophyllum tenax
  • Lewis' Mock Orange Philadelphus lewisii
  • Common Sunflower Helianthus annuus keystone
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