Bloom Native gardener's
field companion

Explore

Field report Layers Search
Log in Sign up
  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Knapweeds
  8. Centaurea jacea
  9. Brown Knapweed
  10. Supports

What Brown Knapweed supports

84 native animals
supported in the US
7 caterpillars 18 food 59 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Satyr Pug Moth Eupithecia satyrata
  • Grey Pug Moth Eupithecia subfuscata
  • Long-winged Shade Cnephasia longana
  • Setaceous Hebrew Character Xestia c-nigrum
  • Small Engrailed Ectropis crepuscularia
  • Smeathmann's Aethes Moth Aethes smeathmanniana
  • Pointed Groundling Scrobipalpa acuminatella

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Alfalfa Snout Beetle Otiorhynchus ligustici
  • Amara quenseli
  • Blue Shield Bug Zicrona caerulea
  • Trefoil Plant Bug Plagiognathus chrysanthemi
See all

Flower visitors All

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

  • Ligated Furrow Bee Halictus ligatus
  • Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee Agapostemon virescens
  • Common Branded Skipper Hesperia comma
  • Orange-legged Furrow Bee Halictus rubicundus
  • Common Flower Fly Syrphus ribesii
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Heath Bumble Bee Bombus jonellus
  • Black-thighed Flower Fly Syrphus vitripennis
See all

We can't find the internet

Attempting to reconnect

Something went wrong!

Attempting to reconnect