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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
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  6. Rose Family
  7. Firethorns
  8. Firethorn
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What Firethorn supports

29 native animals
supported in the US
4 caterpillars 13 food 12 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • White-marked Tussock Moth Orgyia leucostigma
  • Rusty Tussock Moth Orgyia antiqua
  • Leaf Crumpler Moth Acrobasis indigenella
  • Cherry Bark Tortrix Enarmonia formosana

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • American Robin Turdus migratorius
  • Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum
  • Broad-headed Sharpshooter Oncometopia orbona
  • White-bowed Smoothwing Scaeva affinis
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Fuzzy-Horned Bumble Bee Bombus mixtus
  • Black-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus melanopygus
  • Lorquin's Admiral Limenitis lorquini
  • California Sister Adelpha californica
  • Orange-spotted Drone Fly Eristalis anthophorina
  • Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus
  • Great Purple Hairstreak Atlides halesus
  • Brown Elfin Callophrys augustinus
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