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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Pinks, Cactuses, and Allies
  6. Amaranths
  7. Russian Thistles
  8. Saltwort
  9. Supports

What Saltwort supports

25 native animals
supported in the US
17 caterpillars 2 food 6 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Western Pygmy-Blue Brephidium exilis
  • White-lined Sphinx Hyles lineata
  • Virginian Tiger Moth Spilosoma virginica
  • Ipsilon Dart Moth Agrotis ipsilon
  • Genista Broom Moth Uresiphita reversalis
  • Chain-dotted Geometer Cingilia catenaria
  • Rubbed Dart Euxoa detersa
  • Western Yellow-striped Armyworm Moth Spodoptera praefica
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Gambel's Quail Callipepla gambelii
  • Lesser Prairie-Chicken Tympanuchus pallidicinctus

Flower visitors All

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

  • Texas Striped Sweat Bee Agapostemon texanus
  • Incomplete Sweat Bee Lasioglossum incompletum
  • Common Checkered-Skipper Burnsius communis
  • Seaside Lady Beetle Naemia seriata
  • Stizoides renicinctus
  • Lasioglossum albohirtum

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