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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Mule's Ears
  8. Gray Mule-Ears
  9. Supports

What Gray Mule-Ears supports

19 native animals
supported in the US
3 bees 3 food 13 flowers

Specialist bees All

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

  • Parallel Leafcutter Bee Megachile parallela Pollen specialist on Symphyotrichum, Solidago, Helianthus and 26 more on mule's ears
  • Osmia montana Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Cirsium, Senecio and 10 more on mule's ears
  • California Mason Bee Osmia californica Pollen specialist on Cirsium, Senecio, Ericameria and 6 more on mule's ears

Plant eaters All

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

  • Brachysomida californica on mule's ears
  • Western Calligrapher Toxomerus occidentalis on mule's ears
  • Sunflower Seed Maggot Neotephritis finalis on mule's ears

Flower visitors All

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

  • Pipevine Swallowtail Battus philenor
  • Variable Checkerspot Euphydryas chalcedona
  • Western Tiger Swallowtail Papilio rutulus
  • Black-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus melanopygus
  • Colorado Black-notched Bumble Bee Bombus bifarius
  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii on mule's ears
  • Acmon Blue Icaricia acmon on mule's ears
  • Golden Northern Bumble Bee Bombus fervidus on mule's ears
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