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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Groundsels
  8. Senecio leucanthemifolius
  9. Eastern Groundsel
  10. Supports

What Eastern Groundsel supports

17 native animals
supported in the US
3 caterpillars 8 food 6 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Gem Moth Orthonama obstipata
  • Wormwood Pug Eupithecia absinthiata
  • Red Carpet Xanthorhoe decoloraria

Plant eaters All

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

  • Plum-thistle Aphid Brachycaudus cardui
  • Leafcurl Plum Aphid Brachycaudus helichrysi
  • Brown Bear Ursus arctos
  • Common Grass Skimmer Paragus haemorrhous
  • Black-footed Globetail Sphaerophoria philanthus
  • Western Flower Thrips Frankliniella occidentalis
  • American Serpentine Leaf Miner Liriomyza trifolii
  • Ornate Aphid Myzus ornatus

Flower visitors All

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

  • Orange-legged Furrow Bee Halictus rubicundus
  • Variable Duskyface Fly Melanostoma mellinum
  • Northern Blue Plebejus idas
  • Woolly-tailed Marsh Fly Helophilus hybridus
  • Annulate Masked Bee Hylaeus annulatus
  • Little Masked Bee Hylaeus pictipes

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