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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Tarweed
  8. Pit-gland Tarweed
  9. Supports

What Pit-gland Tarweed supports

12 native animals
supported in the US
2 bees 1 food 9 flowers

Specialist bees All

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

  • Horn-faced Leafcutter Bee Megachile fidelis Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Cirsium, Senecio and 20 more on tarweed
  • Melissodes lupinus Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Ericameria, Symphyotrichum and 12 more on tarweed

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mexican Cactus Fly Copestylum mexicanum

Flower visitors All

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

  • Acmon Blue Icaricia acmon
  • Black-footed Drone Fly Eristalis hirta
  • Mylitta Crescent Phyciodes mylitta
  • Urbane Digger Bee Anthophora urbana
  • Parallel Leafcutter Bee Megachile parallela Pollen specialist on Symphyotrichum, Solidago, Helianthus and 26 more
  • Gumweed Plume Moth Dejongia californicus
  • Pomona Longhorn Xenoglossa pomonae
  • Common Checkered-Skipper Burnsius communis on tarweed
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