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

What Heermann's Tarweed supports

12 native animals
supported in the US
2 bees 10 flowers

Specialist bees All

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

  • Horn-faced Leafcutter Bee Megachile fidelis Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Cirsium, Senecio and 20 more on tarweed
  • Melissodes lupinus Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Ericameria, Symphyotrichum and 12 more on tarweed

Flower visitors All

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

  • Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides
  • Tripartite Sweat Bee Halictus tripartitus
  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii
  • Eufala Skipper Lerodea eufala
  • Checkered White Pontia protodice
  • Urbane Digger Bee Anthophora urbana
  • Cabbage Webworm Moth Hellula rogatalis
  • Parallel Leafcutter Bee Megachile parallela Pollen specialist on Symphyotrichum, Solidago, Helianthus and 26 more
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