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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mustards, Capers, and Allies
  6. Mustard Family
  7. Bitter Cress
  8. Cuckooflower
  9. Supports

What Cuckooflower supports

54 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 1 bees 10 food 38 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Purple-backed Cabbageworm Moth Evergestis pallidata
  • Falcate Orangetip Anthocharis midea on bitter cress
  • West Virginia White Pieris virginiensis on bitter cress
  • Olympia Marble Euchloe olympia on bitter cress
  • Margined White Pieris marginalis on bitter cress

Specialist bees All

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

  • Mustard Miner Bee Andrena arabis Pollen specialist on Cardamine and Arabis on bitter cress

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Phyllotreta ochripes
  • Amara quenseli
  • Willow Ptarmigan Lagopus lagopus
  • Dirt-colored Seed Bug Sphragisticus nebulosus
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Variable Duskyface Fly Melanostoma mellinum
  • Heath Bumble Bee Bombus jonellus
  • Greater Bee Fly Bombylius major
  • Orange-legged Furrow Bee Halictus rubicundus
  • Woolly-tailed Marsh Fly Helophilus hybridus
  • Black-thighed Flower Fly Syrphus vitripennis
  • Hairy-eyed Halfband Melangyna lasiophthalma
  • Bog-dwelling Drone Fly Eristalis cryptarum
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