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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Knapweeds
  8. Knapweeds, Bluets, Loggerheads, and Allies
  9. Perennial Cornflower
  10. Supports

What Perennial Cornflower supports

64 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 10 food 49 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum
  • Long-winged Shade Cnephasia longana
  • Grey Pug Moth Eupithecia subfuscata
  • Smeathmann's Aethes Moth Aethes smeathmanniana
  • Pointed Groundling Scrobipalpa acuminatella

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Blue Shield Bug Zicrona caerulea
  • Trefoil Plant Bug Plagiognathus chrysanthemi
  • Hairy Plant Bug Orthocephalus coriaceus
  • Leafcurl Plum Aphid Brachycaudus helichrysi
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
  • Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee Agapostemon virescens
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Ligated Furrow Bee Halictus ligatus
  • Great Basin Bumble Bee Bombus centralis
  • Perplexing Bumble Bee Bombus perplexus
  • Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee Bombus flavifrons
  • Two-spotted Bumble Bee Bombus bimaculatus
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