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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Knapweeds
  8. Knapweed
  9. Maltese Star-thistle
  10. Supports

What Maltese Star-thistle supports

37 native animals
supported in the US
11 food 25 flowers 1 shelter

Plant eaters All

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

  • Lesser Goldfinch Spinus psaltria
  • California Quail Callipepla californica
  • House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus
  • Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
  • Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis
  • American Goldfinch Spinus tristis
  • White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys
  • Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Mylitta Crescent Phyciodes mylitta
  • Orange Sulphur Colias eurytheme
  • Checkered White Pontia protodice
  • Mournful Duskywing Erynnis tristis
  • Behr's Metalmark Apodemia virgulti
  • Ligated Furrow Bee Halictus ligatus
  • Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides
  • Funereal Duskywing Erynnis funeralis
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Sheltered animals All

1 native animals that nest or roost in it, most recorded first.

  • Aprostocetus

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