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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
  6. Legumes
  7. Lupines
  8. Texas Bluebonnet
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What Texas Bluebonnet supports

58 native animals
supported in the US
21 caterpillars 1 bees 3 food 33 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus
  • Henry's Elfin Callophrys henrici
  • Tobacco Budworm Moth Chloridea virescens
  • Clouded Sulphur Colias philodice on lupines
  • Wild Indigo Duskywing Erynnis baptisiae on lupines
  • Orange Sulphur Colias eurytheme on lupines
  • West Coast Lady Vanessa annabella on lupines
  • Funereal Duskywing Erynnis funeralis on lupines
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Specialist bees All

1 native bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it, most recorded first.

  • Blueberry Digger Bee Habropoda laboriosa Pollen specialist on Vaccinium, Lupinus and Cercis on lupines

Plant eaters All

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

  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus on lupines
  • Gambel's Quail Callipepla gambelii on lupines
  • Montezuma Quail Cyrtonyx montezumae on lupines

Flower visitors All

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

  • American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus
  • Juniper Hairstreak Callophrys gryneus
  • Monarch Danaus plexippus
  • Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus
  • Variegated Fritillary Euptoieta claudia
  • Checkered White Pontia protodice
  • Reakirt's Blue Echinargus isola
  • Great Purple Hairstreak Atlides halesus
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