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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Agaves, Orchids, Irises, and Allies
  6. Orchids
  7. Fringed and Butterfly Orchids
  8. Fimbriella
  9. Lesser Purple Fringed Orchid
  10. Supports

What Lesser Purple Fringed Orchid supports

13 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 1 food 10 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Snowberry Clearwing Hemaris diffinis
  • Hummingbird Clearwing Hemaris thysbe

Plant eaters All

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

  • Bicyrtes ventralis on fringed and butterfly orchids

Flower visitors All

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

  • Eastern Calligrapher Toxomerus geminatus
  • Black Swallowtail Papilio polyxenes
  • Bedstraw Hawkmoth Hyles gallii
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Papilio glaucus
  • Silver-spotted Skipper Epargyreus clarus
  • Dun Skipper Euphyes vestris
  • Pure Green Sweat Bee Augochlora pura
  • Canadian Tiger Swallowtail Papilio canadensis
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