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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Globe Thistle
  8. Blue Globe-thistle
  9. Supports

What Blue Globe-thistle supports

18 native animals
supported in the US
3 food 15 flowers

Plant eaters All

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

  • Leafcurl Plum Aphid Brachycaudus helichrysi
  • Two-striped Grasshopper Melanoplus bivittatus
  • Plum-thistle Aphid Brachycaudus cardui

Flower visitors All

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

  • Two-spotted Bumble Bee Bombus bimaculatus
  • Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
  • Old World Swallowtail Papilio machaon
  • Eastern Calligrapher Toxomerus geminatus
  • Pure Green Sweat Bee Augochlora pura
  • Black-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus melanopygus
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