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  3. Vascular Plants
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  6. Amaranths
  7. Amaranths
  8. Amaranthus hybridus
  9. Redroot Amaranth
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What Redroot Amaranth supports

61 native animals
supported in the US
23 caterpillars 33 food 4 flowers 1 shelter

Caterpillars All

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

  • Common Sootywing Pholisora catullus
  • Mazans Scallopwing Staphylus mazans
  • Mexican Sootywing Pholisora mejicanus
  • Platynota nigrocervina
  • Yellow-striped Armyworm Moth Spodoptera ornithogalli
  • Bidens Borer Moth Epiblema otiosana
  • Banded Scythris Moth Scythris trivinctella
  • Stalk Borer Moth Papaipema nebris
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Plant eaters All

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

  • Citrus Flatid Planthopper Metcalfa pruinosa
  • Potato Aphid Macrosiphum euphorbiae
  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • California Quail Callipepla californica
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • English Grain Aphid Sitobion avenae
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Flower visitors All

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

  • Black Swallowtail Papilio polyxenes
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
  • Honeylocust Treehopper Micrutalis calva
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens on amaranths

Sheltered animals All

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

  • Pegomya wygodzinskyi on amaranths

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