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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Mule's Ears
  8. Smooth Mule-ears
  9. Supports

What Smooth Mule-ears supports

20 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 3 bees 3 food 13 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Variable Checkerspot Euphydryas chalcedona

Specialist bees All

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

  • Parallel Leafcutter Bee Megachile parallela Pollen specialist on Symphyotrichum, Solidago, Helianthus and 26 more on mule's ears
  • Osmia montana Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Cirsium, Senecio and 10 more on mule's ears
  • California Mason Bee Osmia californica Pollen specialist on Cirsium, Senecio, Ericameria and 6 more on mule's ears

Plant eaters All

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

  • Brachysomida californica
  • Western Calligrapher Toxomerus occidentalis on mule's ears
  • Sunflower Seed Maggot Neotephritis finalis on mule's ears

Flower visitors All

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

  • California Dogface Zerene eurydice
  • Black-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus melanopygus
  • Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
  • American Lady Vanessa virginiensis
  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii
  • Pipevine Swallowtail Battus philenor on mule's ears
  • Acmon Blue Icaricia acmon on mule's ears
  • Golden Northern Bumble Bee Bombus fervidus on mule's ears
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