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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Joe-Pye Weeds
  8. Appalachian Joe-Pye Weed
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What Appalachian Joe-Pye Weed supports

143 native animals
supported in the US
12 caterpillars 1 hosts 130 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Ruby Tiger Moth Phragmatobia fuliginosa on joe-pye weeds
  • Wavy-lined Emerald Synchlora aerata on joe-pye weeds
  • Dusky Groundling Condica vecors on joe-pye weeds
  • Beggartick Leaffolder Moth Agonopterix atrodorsella on joe-pye weeds
  • Leucospilapteryx venustella on joe-pye weeds
  • Hairy Dichomeris Moth Dichomeris setosella on joe-pye weeds
  • Ailanthus Webworm Moth Atteva aurea on joe-pye weeds
  • Gem Moth Orthonama obstipata on joe-pye weeds
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Hosted animals All

1 native gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it, most recorded first.

  • Calycomyza flavinotum on joe-pye weeds

Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens on joe-pye weeds
  • Monarch Danaus plexippus on joe-pye weeds
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Papilio glaucus on joe-pye weeds
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis on joe-pye weeds
  • Lemon Cuckoo Bumble Bee Bombus citrinus on joe-pye weeds
  • Rusty-patched Bumble Bee Bombus affinis on joe-pye weeds
  • Peck's Skipper Polites peckius on joe-pye weeds
  • Silver-spotted Skipper Epargyreus clarus on joe-pye weeds
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