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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mallows, Rock Roses, and Allies
  6. Mallow Family
  7. Mallow
  8. Alkali Mallow
  9. Supports

What Alkali Mallow supports

13 native animals
supported in the US
6 caterpillars 1 bees 1 hosts 5 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus
  • West Coast Lady Vanessa annabella
  • Common Checkered-Skipper Burnsius communis
  • Small Checkered-Skipper Pyrgus scriptura
  • Laviana White-Skipper Heliopetes laviana
  • Zenodoxus canescens

Specialist bees All

1 native bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it, most recorded first.

  • Ochraceous Chimney Bee Diadasia ochracea Pollen specialist on Sphaeralcea, Malacothamnus and Malvella on mallow

Hosted animals All

1 native gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it, most recorded first.

  • Mallow Leaf Miner Calycomyza malvae

Flower visitors All

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

  • Sonoran Bumble Bee Bombus sonorus
  • Painted Lady Vanessa cardui
  • Orange Sulphur Colias eurytheme
  • Checkered White Pontia protodice
  • Western Pygmy-Blue Brephidium exilis

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