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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Myrtles, Evening Primroses, and Allies
  6. Evening Primrose Family
  7. Clarkias
  8. Primigenia
  9. Ruby Chalice Clarkia
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What Ruby Chalice Clarkia supports

22 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 3 bees 4 food 13 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • White-lined Sphinx Hyles lineata on clarkias
  • Ridings' Forester Alypia ridingsii on clarkias

Specialist bees All

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

  • Clarkia Evening Bee Hesperapis regularis Pollen specialist on Clarkia on clarkias
  • Diadasia angusticeps Pollen specialist on Clarkia on clarkias
  • Andrena lewisorum Pollen specialist on Clarkia on clarkias

Plant eaters All

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

  • Ornate Checkered Beetle Trichodes ornatus
  • Dimorphic Flower Longhorn Beetle Anastrangalia laetifica
  • Acmaeodera connexa
  • Western Calligrapher Toxomerus occidentalis on clarkias

Flower visitors All

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

  • Tripartite Sweat Bee Halictus tripartitus
  • Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides
  • Variable Checkerspot Euphydryas chalcedona
  • California Bumble Bee Bombus californicus
  • Urbane Digger Bee Anthophora urbana
  • Wide-striped Sweat Bee Halictus farinosus
  • Rural Skipper Ochlodes agricola
  • Silver-tailed Petalcutter Megachile montivaga
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