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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mallows, Rock Roses, and Allies
  6. Mallow Family
  7. Mallows
  8. Common Mallow
  9. Supports

What Common Mallow supports

42 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 1 hosts 10 food 26 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Cotton Tipworm Moth Crocidosema plebejana
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui
  • West Coast Lady Vanessa annabella
  • Common Checkered-Skipper Burnsius communis
  • Grey Pug Moth Eupithecia subfuscata

Hosted animals All

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

  • Aspidapion radiolus

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
  • Ornate Aphid Myzus ornatus
  • Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae
  • Hyaline Grass Bug Liorhyssus hyalinus
  • Alfalfa Snout Beetle Otiorhynchus ligustici
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Two-spotted Bumble Bee Bombus bimaculatus
  • Tripartite Sweat Bee Halictus tripartitus
  • Texas Striped Sweat Bee Agapostemon texanus
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii
  • Red-belted Bumble Bee Bombus rufocinctus
  • Perplexing Bumble Bee Bombus perplexus
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