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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Spikeweeds
  8. Common Spikeweed
  9. Supports

What Common Spikeweed supports

26 native animals
supported in the US
2 bees 4 food 20 flowers

Specialist bees All

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

  • Calliopsis pugionis Pollen specialist on Chaenactis, Helianthus, Encelia and 3 more on spikeweeds
  • Melissodes lupinus Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Ericameria, Symphyotrichum and 12 more on spikeweeds

Plant eaters All

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

  • Spotted Cucumber Beetle Diabrotica undecimpunctata
  • Forked Globetail Sphaerophoria sulphuripes
  • Tetropismenus hirtus
  • Neaspilota signifera

Flower visitors All

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

  • Ligated Furrow Bee Halictus ligatus
  • Acmon Blue Icaricia acmon
  • Common Checkered-Skipper Burnsius communis
  • Short Sun-digger Bee Anthophora curta Pollen specialist on Ericameria, Deinandra, Solidago and 17 more
  • Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides
  • Western Pygmy-Blue Brephidium exilis
  • Common Grass Skimmer Paragus haemorrhous
  • Bicyrtes capnopterus
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