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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. American Groundsels and Ragworts
  8. Small's Ragwort
  9. Supports

What Small's Ragwort supports

32 native animals
supported in the US
1 caterpillars 1 bees 1 hosts 29 flowers

Caterpillars All

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

  • Phyllocnistis insignis

Specialist bees All

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

  • Andrena gardineri Pollen specialist on Packera, Senecio and Gutierrezia on american groundsels and ragworts

Hosted animals All

1 native gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it, most recorded first.

  • Phyllotrox ferrugineus on american groundsels and ragworts

Flower visitors All

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

  • Margined Calligrapher Toxomerus marginatus
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa virginica
  • Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus
  • American Lady Vanessa virginiensis
  • Eastern Calligrapher Toxomerus geminatus
  • Margined Leatherwing Beetle Chauliognathus marginatus
  • Tawny-edged Skipper Polites themistocles
  • Southern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa micans
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