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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. Pappose Tarweed
  9. Supports

What Pappose Tarweed supports

14 native animals
supported in the US
2 bees 12 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

Flower visitors All

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

  • Ligated Furrow Bee Halictus ligatus
  • Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides
  • Common Grass Skimmer Paragus haemorrhous
  • Forked Globetail Sphaerophoria sulphuripes
  • Honey-tailed Striped Sweat Bee Agapostemon melliventris
  • Pomona Longhorn Xenoglossa pomonae
  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii on spikeweeds
  • Orange Sulphur Colias eurytheme on spikeweeds
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