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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Blazing-stars
  8. Hairy Gayfeather
  9. Supports

What Hairy Gayfeather supports

77 native animals
supported in the US
8 caterpillars 1 hosts 68 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Hummingbird Clearwing Hemaris thysbe
  • Wavy-lined Emerald Synchlora aerata on blazing-stars
  • Ailanthus Webworm Moth Atteva aurea on blazing-stars
  • Master's Dart Feltia herilis on blazing-stars
  • Three-lined Flower Moth Schinia trifascia on blazing-stars
  • Third Flower Moth Schinia tertia on blazing-stars
  • Bleeding Flower Moth Schinia sanguinea on blazing-stars
  • Blazing Star Borer Moth Papaipema beeriana on blazing-stars

Hosted animals All

1 native gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it, most recorded first.

  • Asphondylia lacinariae on blazing-stars

Flower visitors All

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

  • Hoary Edge Cecropterus lyciades
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
  • Snowberry Clearwing Hemaris diffinis
  • Monarch Danaus plexippus
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Papilio glaucus
  • Silver-spotted Skipper Epargyreus clarus
  • Pipevine Swallowtail Battus philenor
  • American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus
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