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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Bellflower Family
  7. Lobelias
  8. Typical Lobelias
  9. Cardinal Flower
  10. Supports

What Cardinal Flower supports

80 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 2 food 77 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Hitched Arches Melanchra adjuncta

Plant eaters All

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

  • White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus
  • Anna's Hummingbird Calypte anna on lobelias

Flower visitors All

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

  • Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
  • Spicebush Swallowtail Papilio troilus
  • Cloudless Sulphur Phoebis sennae
  • Eastern Giant Swallowtail Heraclides cresphontes
  • Palamedes Swallowtail Papilio palamedes
  • Pipevine Swallowtail Battus philenor
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Golden Northern Bumble Bee Bombus fervidus
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