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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mallows, Rock Roses, and Allies
  6. Mallow Family
  7. Bush-mallows
  8. Southern Coastal Bushmallow
  9. Supports

What Southern Coastal Bushmallow supports

42 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 1 bees 1 hosts 38 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Northern White-Skipper Heliopetes ericetorum
  • West Coast Lady Vanessa annabella

Specialist bees All

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

  • Ochraceous Chimney Bee Diadasia ochracea Pollen specialist on Sphaeralcea, Malacothamnus and Malvella on bush-mallows

Hosted animals All

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

  • Stenopodius flavidus

Flower visitors All

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

  • Texas Striped Sweat Bee Agapostemon texanus
  • Tripartite Sweat Bee Halictus tripartitus
  • Tansy Mustard Sweat Bee Lasioglossum sisymbrii
  • Charming Spindle Bug Closterocoris amoenus
  • Peridot Sweat Bee Augochlorella pomoniella
  • Parantonae hispida
  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii
  • Globe Mallow Bee Diadasia diminuta Pollen specialist on Sphaeralcea and Sidalcea
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