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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Nances, Willows, and Allies
  6. Violets and Allies
  7. Violets
  8. Canadenses
  9. Western Heart's Ease
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What Western Heart's Ease supports

30 native animals
supported in the US
4 caterpillars 2 hosts 3 food 21 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Pacific Fritillary Boloria epithore
  • Waterlily Leafcutter Moth Elophila obliteralis on violets
  • Hydaspe Fritillary Argynnis hydaspe on violets
  • Callippe Fritillary Argynnis callippe on violets

Hosted animals All

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

  • Violet Leafmining Sawfly Nefusa ambigua on violets
  • Prodiplosis violicola on violets

Plant eaters All

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

  • Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus on violets
  • Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus on violets
  • Brassica Leaf Miner Scaptomyza flava on violets

Flower visitors All

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

  • Margined White Pieris marginalis
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis on violets
  • Greater Bee Fly Bombylius major on violets
  • Golden Northern Bumble Bee Bombus fervidus on violets
  • White-lined Sphinx Hyles lineata on violets
  • Spotted Pink Lady Beetle Coleomegilla maculata on violets
  • Black-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus melanopygus on violets
  • Hunt's Bumble Bee Bombus huntii on violets
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