Top native sunflowers, bellflowers, fanflowers, and allies
18 species, native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.
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Bushy Aster
Symphyotrichum dumosum
keystone
caterpillars
74
bees
23
hosts
2
food
14
flowers
224
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Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
caterpillars
23
bees
3
hosts
1
food
83
flowers
726
shelter
1
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Cutleaf Coneflower
Rudbeckia laciniata
caterpillars
18
bees
28
hosts
1
food
11
flowers
304
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Robin's-plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
caterpillars
13
bees
6
hosts
3
food
11
flowers
208
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Dense Blazing Star
Liatris spicata
caterpillars
9
hosts
1
food
3
flowers
129
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Devil's Bite
Liatris scariosa
caterpillars
9
hosts
1
flowers
93
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Rocky Mountain Blazing Star
Liatris ligulistylis
caterpillars
9
hosts
1
flowers
81
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Prairie Blazing Star
Liatris pycnostachya
caterpillars
8
hosts
1
flowers
117
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Lobed Coreopsis
Coreopsis auriculata
caterpillars
6
bees
11
food
2
flowers
90
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Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
caterpillars
5
bees
19
food
4
flowers
139
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Lance-leaved Coreopsis
Coreopsis lanceolata
caterpillars
5
bees
17
food
9
flowers
203
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Whorled Coreopsis
Coreopsis verticillata
caterpillars
5
bees
12
food
2
flowers
95
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Star Tickseed
Coreopsis pubescens
caterpillars
5
bees
12
food
2
flowers
87
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Greater Tickseed
Coreopsis major
caterpillars
5
bees
10
food
2
flowers
83
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Purple Coneflower
Echinacea purpurea
caterpillars
2
bees
5
food
6
flowers
350
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Straggler Daisy
Calyptocarpus vialis
caterpillars
2
flowers
11
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Narrow-leaved Purple Coneflower
Echinacea angustifolia
caterpillars
1
bees
4
flowers
125
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Toothed White-topped Aster
Sericocarpus asteroides
caterpillars
1
flowers
30