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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
  6. Legumes
  7. Bird's-foot Trefoils
  8. Lotus corniculatus
  9. Bird's-foot Trefoil
  10. Supports

What Bird's-foot Trefoil supports

179 native animals
supported in the US
10 caterpillars 20 food 149 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Northern Blue Plebejus idas
  • Common Branded Skipper Hesperia comma
  • Southern Armyworm Moth Spodoptera eridania
  • Chionodes lugubrella
  • Satyr Pug Moth Eupithecia satyrata
  • Rusty Tussock Moth Orgyia antiqua
  • Mosaic Sparganothis Moth Sparganothis xanthoides
  • Oblique-banded Leafroller Moth Choristoneura rosaceana
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus
  • Alfalfa Snout Beetle Otiorhynchus ligustici
  • High Mountain Grasshopper Melanoplus frigidus
  • Clover Head Weevil Hypera meles
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
  • Acmon Blue Icaricia acmon
  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii
  • Golden Northern Bumble Bee Bombus fervidus
  • Half-black Bumble Bee Bombus vagans
  • Banded Mud Bee Megachile ericetorum
  • Tricolored Bumble Bee Bombus ternarius
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