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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Tarweeds
  8. Island Tarplant
  9. Supports

What Island Tarplant supports

6 native animals
supported in the US
2 bees 4 flowers

Specialist bees All

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

  • Parallel Leafcutter Bee Megachile parallela Pollen specialist on Symphyotrichum, Solidago, Helianthus and 26 more on tarweeds
  • Short Sun-digger Bee Anthophora curta Pollen specialist on Ericameria, Deinandra, Solidago and 17 more on tarweeds

Flower visitors All

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

  • Western Pygmy-Blue Brephidium exilis
  • Brachynomada annectens on tarweeds
  • Acmon Blue Icaricia acmon on tarweeds
  • Mylitta Crescent Phyciodes mylitta on tarweeds

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