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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Agaves, Orchids, Irises, and Allies
  6. Irises and Allies
  7. Irises
  8. Flag Irises
  9. Yellow Iris
  10. Supports

What Yellow Iris supports

51 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 11 food 39 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Putnam's Looper Moth Plusia putnami

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Bird Cherry-oat Aphid Rhopalosiphum padi
  • Foxglove Aphid Aulacorthum solani
  • Rose Grain Aphid Metopolophium dirhodum
  • Tulip Bulb Aphid Dysaphis tulipae
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Swamp Milkweed Leaf Beetle Labidomera clivicollis
  • Green Frog Lithobates clamitans
  • Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
  • Monarch Danaus plexippus
  • Anna's Hummingbird Calypte anna
  • American Bullfrog Lithobates catesbeianus
  • Eastern Forktail Ischnura verticalis
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