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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Dogwoods, Hydrangeas, and Allies
  6. Stickleaf Family
  7. Blazingstars
  8. Bartonia
  9. Giant Blazingstar
  10. Supports

What Giant Blazingstar supports

18 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 5 bees 12 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Anoncia leucoritis

Specialist bees All

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

  • Bicuspidaria Blazingstar-Shortface Xeralictus bicuspidariae Pollen specialist on Mentzelia on blazingstars
  • Timberlake's Blazingstar-Shortface Xeralictus timberlakei Pollen specialist on Mentzelia on blazingstars
  • Red-tailed Blazing Star Bee Megandrena mentzeliae Pollen specialist on Mentzelia and Eucnide on blazingstars
  • Perdita holoxantha Pollen specialist on Mentzelia on blazingstars
  • Perdita multiflorae Pollen specialist on Mentzelia on blazingstars

Flower visitors All

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

  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii
  • Morrison's Bumble Bee Bombus morrisoni
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis
  • Hunt's Bumble Bee Bombus huntii
  • Acmon Blue Icaricia acmon
  • Golden Northern Bumble Bee Bombus fervidus
  • Tripartite Sweat Bee Halictus tripartitus
  • Nevada Bumble Bee Bombus nevadensis
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