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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
  6. Plantain Family
  7. Beardtongues
  8. Penstemon
  9. Sierra Penstemon
  10. Supports

What Sierra Penstemon supports

46 native animals
supported in the US
5 caterpillars 1 food 40 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Edith's Checkerspot Euphydryas editha
  • Variable Checkerspot Euphydryas chalcedona
  • Anicia Checkerspot Euphydryas anicia on beardtongues
  • California Tiger Moth Leptarctia californiae on beardtongues
  • Kallia murtfeldtella on beardtongues

Plant eaters All

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

  • Rufous Hummingbird Selasphorus rufus on beardtongues

Flower visitors All

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

  • White-lined Sphinx Hyles lineata
  • Orange-tipped Wood-digger Anthophora terminalis on beardtongues
  • Golden Northern Bumble Bee Bombus fervidus on beardtongues
  • Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee Bombus flavifrons on beardtongues
  • Pseudomasaris vespoides on beardtongues
  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii on beardtongues
  • Great Basin Bumble Bee Bombus centralis on beardtongues
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee Bombus griseocollis on beardtongues
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