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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mallows, Rock Roses, and Allies
  6. Mallow Family
  7. Marshmallows
  8. Marsh Mallow
  9. Supports

What Marsh Mallow supports

16 native animals
supported in the US
3 caterpillars 1 hosts 8 food 4 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • West Coast Lady Vanessa annabella
  • Common Checkered-Skipper Burnsius communis
  • Cotton Tipworm Moth Crocidosema plebejana

Hosted animals All

1 native gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it, most recorded first.

  • Aspidapion radiolus

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Foxglove Aphid Aulacorthum solani
  • Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae
  • Hyaline Grass Bug Liorhyssus hyalinus
  • Western Flower Thrips Frankliniella occidentalis

Flower visitors All

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

  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
  • Spotted Pink Lady Beetle Coleomegilla maculata
  • Two-spotted Longhorn Bee Melissodes bimaculatus
  • Perplexing Bumble Bee Bombus perplexus

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