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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Cardoon
  8. Artichoke Thistle
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What Artichoke Thistle supports

47 native animals
supported in the US
13 caterpillars 6 food 28 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui
  • Salt Marsh Moth Estigmene acrea
  • Celery Leaftier Moth Udea rubigalis
  • Omnivorous Looper Sabulodes aegrotata
  • Mottled Pyrausta Moth Pyrausta subsequalis
  • Orange Tortrix Moth Argyrotaenia franciscana
  • Helcystogramma melantherella
  • Artichoke Plume Moth Platyptilia carduidactylus
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Plum-thistle Aphid Brachycaudus cardui
  • Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae
  • Indian Cotton Jassid Amrasca biguttula
  • Spotted Cucumber Beetle Diabrotica undecimpunctata
  • Potato Aphid Macrosiphum euphorbiae
  • Thistle Aphid Capitophorus elaeagni

Flower visitors All

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

  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
  • Golden Northern Bumble Bee Bombus fervidus
  • Black-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus melanopygus
  • California Bumble Bee Bombus californicus
  • Western Leafcutter Bee Megachile perihirta
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Pipevine Swallowtail Battus philenor
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