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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Spikeweeds
  8. Fitch's Tarweed
  9. Supports

What Fitch's Tarweed supports

13 native animals
supported in the US
2 bees 2 food 9 flowers

Specialist bees All

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

  • Calliopsis pugionis Pollen specialist on Chaenactis, Helianthus, Encelia and 3 more on spikeweeds
  • Melissodes lupinus Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Ericameria, Symphyotrichum and 12 more on spikeweeds

Plant eaters All

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

  • Mecaphesa schlingeri
  • Sinuous Bee Fly Hemipenthes sinuosa

Flower visitors All

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

  • Acmon Blue Icaricia acmon
  • Ligated Furrow Bee Halictus ligatus on spikeweeds
  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii on spikeweeds
  • Orange Sulphur Colias eurytheme on spikeweeds
  • Common Checkered-Skipper Burnsius communis on spikeweeds
  • Gray Buckeye Junonia grisea on spikeweeds
  • Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides on spikeweeds
  • Western Pygmy-Blue Brephidium exilis on spikeweeds
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