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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Heathers, Balsams, Primroses, and Allies
  6. Phlox Family
  7. Jacob's Ladders
  8. Jacob's Ladder
  9. Supports

What Jacob's Ladder supports

63 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 1 bees 61 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Meadow Rue Borer Moth Papaipema unimoda

Specialist bees All

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

  • Jacob's Ladder Miner Andrena polemonii Pollen specialist on Polemonium on jacob's ladders

Flower visitors All

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

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Two-spotted Bumble Bee Bombus bimaculatus
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa virginica
  • Orange-legged Furrow Bee Halictus rubicundus
  • Unequal Cellophane Bee Colletes inaequalis
  • Confusing Furrow Bee Halictus confusus
  • Golden Northern Bumble Bee Bombus fervidus
  • American Snout Fly Rhingia nasica
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