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  3. Vascular Plants
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  8. Common Chickweed Complex
  9. Common Chickweed
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What Common Chickweed supports

126 native animals
supported in the US
20 caterpillars 32 food 74 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum
  • White-lined Sphinx Hyles lineata
  • Dainty Sulphur Nathalis iole
  • Dingy Cutworm Moth Feltia jaculifera
  • Venerable Dart Agrotis venerabilis
  • Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet Xanthorhoe ferrugata
  • Bristly Cutworm Moth Lacinipolia renigera
  • Chickweed Geometer Moth Haematopis grataria
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys
  • American Pipit Anthus rubescens
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Sonoran Blue Philotes sonorensis
  • Common Flower Fly Syrphus ribesii
  • Margined White Pieris marginalis
  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus
  • Orange-belted Leafwalker Xylota segnis
  • Eastern Pine Elfin Callophrys niphon
  • Hairy-eyed Bee-mimic Fly Mallota posticata
  • Orange-winged Carpet Epirrhoe plebeculata
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