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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
  6. Legumes
  7. Sweetvetches
  8. Alpine Sainfoin
  9. Supports

What Alpine Sainfoin supports

10 native animals
supported in the US
3 caterpillars 5 food 2 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Queen Alexandra’s Sulphur Colias alexandra
  • Labrador Sulphur Colias nastes
  • Hecla Sulphur Colias hecla

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • High Mountain Grasshopper Melanoplus frigidus

Flower visitors All

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

  • Banded Mud Bee Megachile ericetorum
  • Mountain Mason Bee Osmia inermis

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