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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Agaves, Orchids, Irises, and Allies
  6. Irises and Allies
  7. Irises
  8. Longipetalae
  9. Western Blue Flag
  10. Supports

What Western Blue Flag supports

54 native animals
supported in the US
2 food 52 flowers

Plant eaters All

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

  • Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo
  • Ornate Checkered Beetle Trichodes ornatus on irises

Flower visitors All

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

  • Western Tiger Swallowtail Papilio rutulus
  • Colorado Black-notched Bumble Bee Bombus bifarius
  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii
  • Black-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus melanopygus
  • Anise Swallowtail Papilio zelicaon
  • Broad-tailed Hummingbird Selasphorus platycercus
  • Nevada Bumble Bee Bombus nevadensis
  • Rocky Mountain Parnassian Parnassius smintheus
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