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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Weather Thistles
  8. Silver Thistle
  9. Supports

What Silver Thistle supports

12 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 6 food 5 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • High Mountain Grasshopper Melanoplus frigidus
  • Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae

Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Branded Skipper Hesperia comma
  • Old World Swallowtail Papilio machaon
  • Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
  • Annulate Masked Bee Hylaeus annulatus
  • Little Masked Bee Hylaeus pictipes

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