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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mustards, Capers, and Allies
  6. Nasturtium Family
  7. Nasturtiums
  8. Tropaeolum Section Tropaeolum
  9. Garden Nasturtium
  10. Supports

What Garden Nasturtium supports

53 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 7 food 41 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Cabbage Looper Moth Trichoplusia ni
  • Great Southern White Ascia monuste
  • Broken-banded Carpet Xanthorhoe iduata
  • Isabella Tiger Moth Pyrrharctia isabella
  • Virginian Tiger Moth Spilosoma virginica

Plant eaters All

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

  • Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae
  • Brassica Leaf Miner Scaptomyza flava
  • White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys
  • Xestoleptura crassipes
  • Diamond Spottail Fazia micrura
  • Foxglove Aphid Aulacorthum solani
  • American Serpentine Leaf Miner Liriomyza trifolii

Flower visitors All

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

  • Anna's Hummingbird Calypte anna
  • Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
  • Allen's Hummingbird Selasphorus sasin
  • Umber Skipper Lon melane
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Valley Carpenter Bee Xylocopa sonorina
  • Sonoran Bumble Bee Bombus sonorus
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa virginica
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